You can call junk "junk" - elsewise, you'd have to call the landfill owner a stuffman. It was actually in reference to when you have stuff that is of some value to you and someone else calls it junk. I spent too many years in that sort of life, so "junk" bacame a dirty word to me, unless it truly was the kettle calling the pot junk. - Pam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ruth Barton" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 19:28 Subject: Re: [BP] museums > However, some STUFF is JUNK!!!!! So what do I call it, landfill filling? Ruth > > > > > At 8:00 AM -0500 12/30/04, Pamela S. Follett wrote: > My sociology professor used to say, "Speak slowly and with more feeling" > when she wanted you to repeat something. Must be she talked to a lot of > pans in her life. And what do you say to a cast iron pan that has that > wonderful patina? Is it a cast iron American pan because it's really a > kettle in disguise? > > And, it's OK to call stuff "stuff", so long as you don't call it "junk". > > - Pam > -- > Ruth Barton > [log in to unmask] > Dummerston, VT > > -- > To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the > uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: > <http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html> > -- To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: <http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>