[SOC] New Mexican??

[Paul Bartlett]

Hi Kevin,

That was an amusing anecdote...:-)

Sorry if I'm insulting your intelligence but the point of my post was that
whilst there are three feet in a yard, there are twenty seven cubic feet in
a cubic yard which is what a yard of sand means in the UK.

Cheers,

Paul :-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Rock" <kevinrock at earthlink.net>
To: "Second Class Operators' Club" <soc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: [SOC] New Mexican??


> In NM these are called Luminarias.
> The English translation : Burning bags of sand.
>
> When a decent wind came along the bags would blow sideways.  The burning
> candle placed upon the sand inside would ignite the bag.  With any luck at
> all the whole line of luminarias would start burning.  It was quite
> interesting to see the rings of fire around the tops of the adobe, or most
> especially, around the fake adobe houses.  Folks would be running around
> in the Winter spraying down their houses.
>
> The modern equivalents are plastic bags with light bulbs in them.  Not
> nearly as cool.
>
>
> Kevin.  KD5ONS
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 20:11:39 +0100, Paul Bartlett
> <paul at fulking.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >
> >> Your Christmas decorations include "a yard of sand and 200 paper bags".
> >
> > Reminds me of a friend who, years ago, was building a small patio using
> > concrete slabs. These are usually placed upon a bed of sand over
prepared
> > ground.
> >
> > He did the sums and figured he needed 3 cubic feet of sand so he ordered
> > a
> > yard.
> >
> > Ooops.
> >
> > If SOC had been around then, he'd have qualified for automatic
> > membership.
> >
> > Paul ;-)
> >
> >
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