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Jul 27th, 2003, 03:47 PM
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I based this story on a pompous couple who hounded us into splitting the substantial cost of an "expert" guide. The guy was awful, had an ego the size of Texas and really abused us with "extra" fees and suggested donations.
I based this story on a pompous couple who hounded us into splitting the substantial cost of an "expert" guide. The guy was awful, had an ego the size of Texas and really abused us with "extra" fees and suggested donations.
Jul 27th, 2003, 03:54 PM
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If I were as clever at parody as you, Degas, I would write a story about the father and son duo who marched into a small cafe near Notre Dame and asked, loudly enough for us to hear several tables away, "Do you have any American coffee?"
You know how the stereotype of the surly French persists? And the one about loud Americans (reported even today on another post)? We smugly thought that such things were nothing but urban legends spread by the sophisticated to gull the unclean masses. Until we saw Dad and Sonny Boy in Paree...
You know how the stereotype of the surly French persists? And the one about loud Americans (reported even today on another post)? We smugly thought that such things were nothing but urban legends spread by the sophisticated to gull the unclean masses. Until we saw Dad and Sonny Boy in Paree...
Jul 27th, 2003, 05:08 PM
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Degas, you really do have a talent for grabbing an audience's total attention until they can't help but read on, only to realize it's a ruse. I am sure there must be somewhere that you can channel that finely honed talent. (But you can still practice here on gullible ones like me in the meantime.)
Jul 31st, 2003, 01:42 PM
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Degas, darlin! I think I found those expensive silk undies the last time we were in Paris!
On the Left Bank, a shy young gypsy girl was selling them for just a little under 200E, she said she had made them herself, after raising these tiny little silk worms..could it all have been a lie??? Horrors!
Do you want them back?
On the Left Bank, a shy young gypsy girl was selling them for just a little under 200E, she said she had made them herself, after raising these tiny little silk worms..could it all have been a lie??? Horrors!
Do you want them back?
Jul 31st, 2003, 01:53 PM
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I hope you grabbed those devine garments from her little thieving hands and left a stinging handprint on her grimy cheek to impress upon her that a life of crime doesn't pay.
Let's have "our people" consult and pick a mutually agreeable time to meet in Paris for the exchange. My fall schedule is a mess and I'm sure yours is as hectic as ever.
Is the Yankee behaving himself and treating you like the refined lady you are?
I hope you grabbed those devine garments from her little thieving hands and left a stinging handprint on her grimy cheek to impress upon her that a life of crime doesn't pay.
Let's have "our people" consult and pick a mutually agreeable time to meet in Paris for the exchange. My fall schedule is a mess and I'm sure yours is as hectic as ever.
Is the Yankee behaving himself and treating you like the refined lady you are?
Jul 31st, 2003, 01:58 PM
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Oh la, Degas, you know Yankees!
But yes, thank you, he does treat me very well, I think I am very lucky.
The silk undie exchange will have to be planned for next spring, maybe we can meet at a cafe on St Germain, or as you pass by on the Bateau Mouche, I could just toss them to you? Fling them down to your from the Eiffel Tower?
Ask one of those smiling waiters to bring them to you while you sip champagne at Taillevent?
I am sure by then we will have thought of something~
But yes, thank you, he does treat me very well, I think I am very lucky.
The silk undie exchange will have to be planned for next spring, maybe we can meet at a cafe on St Germain, or as you pass by on the Bateau Mouche, I could just toss them to you? Fling them down to your from the Eiffel Tower?
Ask one of those smiling waiters to bring them to you while you sip champagne at Taillevent?
I am sure by then we will have thought of something~
Aug 2nd, 2003, 08:08 PM
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I almost missed this one? Degas, you need your own special website. Paid subscribers only.
Is your wife as witty as you are? Are there any little Degas running around the planet...that you know of.
Is your wife as witty as you are? Are there any little Degas running around the planet...that you know of.
