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My favorite is the woman in the center holding the banana, and the other woman who is looking like she's going to take a bite!
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11-12-2008, 04:49 PM
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My favorite is the woman in the center holding the banana, and the other woman who is looking like she's going to take a bite!
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The one taking a bite from the banana is obviously a juggler, she's holding a juggling pin!.
Maybe they were showing their hobbies? There are a couple holding books, one holding flowers...
Or, judging from their caps, they're graduates. Maybe each item they're holding signifies their major, and the one holding the banana majored in botany? 
PS: The one holding flowers is not sitting like a lady!
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11-12-2008, 06:38 PM
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PS: The one holding flowers is not sitting like a lady!
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LAWL she certainly isn't!
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11-13-2008, 12:03 AM
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PS: The one holding flowers is not sitting like a lady!
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FYI, in Colonial days, women who had the money to have a good dress (as opposed to just having their one everyday dress) DID sit with their knees as far apart as possible! It was their way of showing that they had the wealth to have several yards of fabric for a good skirt, along with their everyday clothes. (Thank you, Rev War Reenactor Friends!)
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11-13-2008, 12:12 AM
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FYI, in Colonial days, women who had the money to have a good dress (as opposed to just having their one everyday dress) DID sit with their knees as far apart as possible! It was their way of showing that they had the wealth to have several yards of fabric for a good skirt, along with their everyday clothes. (Thank you, Rev War Reenactor Friends!)
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All I know is, if I ever sat like that, my mom would have screamed "CLOSE YOUR LEGS, WE CAN SEE YOUR UNDIES!" at me, even if I was wearing pants or a long skirt.
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11-13-2008, 01:27 AM
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All I know is, if I ever sat like that, my mom would have screamed "CLOSE YOUR LEGS, WE CAN SEE YOUR UNDIES!" at me, even if I was wearing pants or a long skirt. |
The wide-spread legs bit was a shocker for me, too! I got told, "Honey, knees together, please," which meant "Put those knees together or you will be in the next handbasket to Hell!"  A tad overstated, but it worked - my mother believes that one only yells in the house if it's on fire!
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11-13-2008, 08:49 AM
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The wide-spread legs bit was a shocker for me, too! I got told, "Honey, knees together, please," which meant "Put those knees together or you will be in the next handbasket to Hell!" A tad overstated, but it worked - my mother believes that one only yells in the house if it's on fire! |
See, my mom would've just blurted out the "next handbasket to Hell" stuff- probably accompanied by a sharp "Ah-ah-aaaaaaaaaaah!" She would remind me to be ladylike in a not-very-ladylike manner at all... so I learned my manners as quickly as possible to prevent her from feeling the need to declare anything, LOL!
I still just love this thread! It's one of my favorites on this board!
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11-13-2008, 12:01 PM
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See, my mom would've just blurted out the "next handbasket to Hell" stuff- probably accompanied by a sharp "Ah-ah-aaaaaaaaaaah!" She would remind me to be ladylike in a not-very-ladylike manner at all... so I learned my manners as quickly as possible to prevent her from feeling the need to declare anything, LOL!
I still just love this thread! It's one of my favorites on this board!
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Well my mom did it kindof as a joking thing. Not the close your legs part, but the yelling part.
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11-27-2008, 11:27 PM
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She would remind me to be ladylike in a not-very-ladylike manner at all... so I learned my manners as quickly as possible to prevent her from feeling the need to declare anything, LOL!
I still just love this thread! It's one of my favorites on this board!
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(Bold mine)
I don't know how I missed that, but it reminds me of a soccer game I attended. I met some friends there, and one of them brought another friend, let's call her Amber. I had heard of her, but didn't know her.
Just before the game, we all stood for the National Anthem and Amber noticed that a young boy (8-9 years old) in front of us did not remove his baseball cap. She knocked the hat off of the kid's head, yelling, "You take your f***ing hat off for the f****ing National Anthem, a$$***e!"
I'll be willing to bet dollars to doughnuts that he never leaves his hat on for the Star Spangled Banner again!
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11-13-2008, 03:29 AM
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My favorite is the woman in the center holding the banana, and the other woman who is looking like she's going to take a bite!
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About the banana - I'm assuming a banana was a much more difficult thing to obtain in the 1800s? I mean, I've read enough 19th century American children's novels to know that an orange was considered a delicacy/awesome Christmas gift back in the day in many parts of America. So surely a ripe banana was even rarer? At least in Illinois?
Just guessing and wondering then what the context for the banana might be.
Historian much? lol
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11-13-2008, 09:36 AM
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Epsilon Chapter at Illinois Wesleyan, 1895
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My favorite is the woman in the center holding the banana, and the other woman who is looking like she's going to take a bite![/QUOTE]
That reminds me of the ZTA mystifying photo.
Which was taken in 1899 and is the first offical ZTA photo, with the 9 founders and their first 3 pledges.
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Looks like those ancestors were quite the cut-ups in their salad days...kinda like today's "crazy" pix! 112 years' difference...girls are still the same!
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11-13-2008, 04:18 PM
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My favorite is the woman in the center holding the banana, and the other woman who is looking like she's going to take a bite!
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That reminds me of the ZTA mystifying photo.
Which was taken in 1899 and is the first offical ZTA photo, with the 9 founders and their first 3 pledges.[/quote]
I was thinking the exact same thing! You beat me to the post! 
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