woty 08 abroad

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:53 PM -0500 11/19/08, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
>In a message dated 11/19/08 8:43:51 PM, debaron at ILLINOIS.EDU writes:
>
>
>>  On December 12 every year and watched by a crowd of tourists and
>>  media, a priest at the Kiyomitzudera Buddhist temple in Kyoto waves a
>>  large brush to write the Word of the Year on white cardboard in black
>>  ink.
>>
>
>I thought that this was what Alan Metcalf did every year at LSA. If not, he
>should try it.
>
And if we don't have a Buddhist temple handy, we can create one,
although we may want to work out the timing so we can...um, prepare
the architectural elements for use:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/10/temple-built-from-beer-bottles.php

LH

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