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<div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">=========================================================================<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 07 May 2008 - Volume 08<br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Tom Mc Rae</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:t.mcrae@uq.net.au">t.mcrae@uq.net.au</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Traditions" 2008.05.06 (04) [E]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<div>On 07/05/2008, at 10:22 AM,<br><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Andy Eagle</span> <span><<a href="mailto:andy@scots-online.org" target="_blank">andy@scots-online.org</a>></span> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">
<span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Subject:<span> </span>LL-L "Traditions" 2008.05.06 (01) [E]<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">And we also use the stork image as baby deliverer on cards etc even tho'</blockquote>
</blockquote></span></blockquote>Quite innacurate concept.</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The stork does not bring the baby in the morning, it is the lark at night that does it. :-)</div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size="3">Regards</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size="3">Oh Wad Some Power the Giftie Gie Us</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" size="3">Tae See Oorsel's as Ithers See Us</font></p>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Elsie Zinsser</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:ezinsser@mhsc.org.za">ezinsser@mhsc.org.za</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">L-L "Traditions"<br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" id="1ey8" class="ArwC7c ckChnd">
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<p><b><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-ZA">Hi all,<br>
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I think one should delineate between 'someone who catches babies' and someone
who is trained in obstetrics. </span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-ZA">I see the term 'obstetrics' comes from
L. obstare, "to stand by" which is basically the job a midwife
(trained or not) would be doing. </span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-ZA">Anybody read Chris Bohjalian's
'Midwives'? </span></font></b></p>
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<p><b><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-ZA">Elsie </span></font></b></p>
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</div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">jonny</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Subject: </span><span class="HcCDpe"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">LL-L "Traditions" 2008.05.07 (03) [E]</span><br><br></span><div><span><font face="Courier New">Beste
Luc,</font></span></div><div class="Ih2E3d">
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<div><span><font face="Courier New">you
wrote:</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font color="#008080"><font face="Arial">>
Real reason was of course that the storks just preferred a warm chimney to host
their eggs <span>:-D </span>.</font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></font></span></div>
</div><div><span><font face="Courier New">"Da brat' mir doch
einer 'nen Storch (I'll be jiggered)!" Probably this is the way how the
<strong>White Stork</strong> (C<em>iconia ciconia</em>) mutates to the
<strong>Black Stork</strong> (C<em>iconia nigra</em>)...</font></span></div>
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<div align="left">Allerbest!</div>
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Jonny Meibohm<span class="HcCDpe"><br>
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