More like one for the antique display.

D. Hammer wrote:

> If it does, there goes the price of Rit dyes.  :)  Brings me back to
> childhood where I recall Mom dying things every once in a while....boiling
> a large pot on the stove and soaking something (can't recall what she was
> dyeing)  Probably some curtians....seems she was always doing something
> with curtians, those flimsy looking things she stretched on some big
> frames to dry. Everything must have been white in those days before Martha
> Stewart. :)  Yes, that's it...some young punk asked me one day if
> the world in the 1950's was black and white, like TV.  Or maybe it
> was my trousers, trying to get another year out of them by replacing the
> fading :)  Later, while in the Navy, I went to the Laundry mat to wash my
> whites.  When I took them out, they were all a nice shade of green...seems
> the person before me had dyed something in the washer...was the 1st guy on
> earth to have colored boxers that matched his uniforms. :) Hummm, maybe
> that's why my sub concious mind led me into Histology :)
>
> This may be one for the "Biological Stain Commission"  :)
>
> Don
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> On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Linda Jenkins wrote:
>
> > Dear Gayle,
> >       Like Carrie, first thing I thought of was the gazillion, little
> > packages of Rit dye in the grocery store.  Do you think that could be it?
> > Now - I've got to go check.  Bet it's a LOT cheaper than ordering through a
> > scientific company - kinda like buying hydrogen peroxide from the grocery
> > store for three 500ml bottles for $1.00 vs. $16.00 for one 500ml bottle
> > from the scientific vendor.  Cool tip if it works!
> >                               Linda
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> > Linda Jenkins, HT
> > Clemson University
> > Department of Bioengineering
> > Clemson, SC
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