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Submitted by Norm on Mon, 04/16/2007 - 4:20pm.

I'm home now...

I have pictures...

I have jet-lag...

I'll post more when I have energy...

That is all...

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Hey Norm..


How was the food?
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Pretty good, to my surprise.

Pretty good, to my surprise. I thought I'd lose a lot of weight but I think I may have failed in that arena.
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French Fries?


Those goddamn frogs stole our "freedom fries" idea..

what next..

*SLAP*

ouch..

(my wife just slapped me. Please disregard my French Fry comments. I was just sleep blogging.  I was dreaming I was on haloscan. yuck..)
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welcome back Norm

I imagine you have a newfound love and admiration for France?
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No

Not really for France. I should clarify that I only saw Paris though, being a large city and all, I may have had a completely different experience had I been in Nice, or Marseille.
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Welcome back dude!!!

Please tell me your answer to Rob R. will be no!!  Cool

"All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party."  Mao Tse Tung

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Have you been to France,

Have you been to France, OlyCop?
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???

??? “Tell me, what is it you plan on doing with your one wild and precious life?
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explaination

OlyCop is a conservative, conservatives hate France. It's a jealousy thing.
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The French are also the butt

The French are also the butt of many jokes by non-conservatives, Darby Conley for instance.
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Welcome back

So I guess the news of your demise had been greatly exaggerated, eh?

"Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose."

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Greatly

Although there were a few times on the trip...
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Stevenl

Yup, Marseille in 1980. But it doesn't really matter, Rob sums it up. There are other reasons we can talk about face to face not here on the WWW.

"All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party."  Mao Tse Tung

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Heh, so does anyone know of

Heh, so does anyone know of local banks(etc) that buy back british pounds? Wash mutual doesn't fyi. Wells fargo doesn't unless you are a member, and I loathe bank of america.

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you may have to go up to

you may have to go up to seattle
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saving up

Given the state of the U.S. dollar you may just want to hold onto those pounds.

"Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose."

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You mean the pounds Norm

You mean the pounds Norm added in Paris?

Welcome home Norm.

Robble Robble Robble
Hamburglar

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No no, the food in Paris was

No no, the food in Paris was not very good. The pounds were added in Rome or Salzburg.
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How on earth can cheese,

How on earth can cheese, bread and fruit not be good!  Mmmmm brie...

“Tell me, what is it you plan on doing with your one wild and precious life?” ~ Mary Oliver

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