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That doesn't count. 
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grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!
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The exception proves the rule in this case.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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True, but the French are in a special category....they give at least as good as they get....
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Talk about your rapid responses! 
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Yeah, we were ON that one.
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The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.Comment
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Amazing...
Well, I know, that the French share this point of view, at least since the day when I tried to communicate in English in a hotel in Paris.Comment
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Oh.....we and the French have a love-hate relationship. They pretend they hate us, and we think they're cute when they act mad....
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Well, I know, that the French share this point of view, at least since the day when I tried to communicate in English in a hotel in Paris.
And they wonder why US tourism is down to France.
I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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I wonder why they thought Woody Allen would things?Originally posted by DanS
And they wonder why US tourism is down to France.
I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
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I'd bet French toursim is down to the US too, Dan.
Can't prove it, though.
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The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.Comment
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Why doesn't an American start a "Do You, As An American Citizen, Really Give A Damn What The Rest Of The World Thinks?" poll.
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"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ BraindeadComment
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It's incredibly easy to find one among Americans abroad.Originally posted by DanS
You forget to mention that it's difficult to find Americans criticizing other countries as well.
“Now we declare… that the law-making power or the first and real effective source of law is the people or the body of citizens or the prevailing part of the people according to its election or its will expressed in general convention by vote, commanding or deciding that something be done or omitted in regard to human civil acts under penalty or temporal punishment….” (Marsilius of Padua, „Defensor Pacis“, AD 1324)Comment
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You encounter amazing things when you are in a foreign land and try to talk in a seemingly common, but unliked language. The same happened to me, when I tried to communicate in Russian in a grocery store in Estonia. They simply claimed not to understand me, although my Russian is fairly good. It took me to say the word "Scheiße!" in German (would be censored hereOriginally posted by DanS
Well, I know, that the French share this point of view, at least since the day when I tried to communicate in English in a hotel in Paris.
And they wonder why US tourism is down to France.
), and they realized, that I'm not a Russian and served me, btw in perfect Russian.
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Now Hersh....why would Americans be abroad. We know nobody likes us anyway....
Sir Ralph....that's a good story....very illustrative of the point (not to mention, how ironic! After discovering that you weren't Russian after all, THEN they break out the Russian language....)
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The bigger mystery is, why do they subject themselves to atrocities like Sound of Music?Originally posted by Velociryx
Now Hersh....why would Americans be abroad. We know nobody likes us anyway....
I have a suspicion you are using us as some sort of extraterritorial correctional facility...“Now we declare… that the law-making power or the first and real effective source of law is the people or the body of citizens or the prevailing part of the people according to its election or its will expressed in general convention by vote, commanding or deciding that something be done or omitted in regard to human civil acts under penalty or temporal punishment….” (Marsilius of Padua, „Defensor Pacis“, AD 1324)Comment
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