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Re: Addendum

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From: DoD
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:06
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"The Re'vr''ddd" <reniggade@anglikkkoon.com.za> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:30:01 -0500, "DoD" <thecats@ss.mil> wrote:
>
> >
> >"The Re'vr''ddd" <reniggade@anglikkkoon.com.za> wrote in message
> >news:4538e814.17411236@news.onetel.net.uk...:
> >
> >> >Sounds like a very bleak place.
> >>
> >> It was even worse in Idi Amin's day.   It had been going downhill ever
> >> since the B'ritish left.
> >
> >The pictures that I have seen of lake Victoria looked very pretty. Did
you
> >get to tour around it while you were there in Kampala?
>
> Yes, indeed.   Beware of the crocs.

I would imagine there is all kinds of creatures that you would have to be
keenly aware of.

> >Maybe in central America.... But I heard that in India, they are
deputizing
> >cobras... Now ain't that something?
>
> I borrowed some Indian's cobra for a photograph in Bombay once.  LOL

Did you handle it yourself? Was it defanged?

> >> >> I did have a lucky escape, though.  I'd just come up from El
Salvador
> >> >> where the shit had started to hit the fan bigtime.  LOL
> >> >
> >> >Did you know that ahead of time and you just made your escape, or was
it
> >> >just by chance that you left in time?
> >>
> >> I was in Santa Ana when the shit hit the fan in San Salvador.
> >> Fortunately, I had taken the precaution of getting a visa for
> >> Guatemala and it was only a question of getting to the border.   There
> >> were rebels in the area but I made it.   I didn't really feel safe
> >> until I got to Belize (formerly B'ritish Honduras).
> >
> >I am assuming that you were there in 1980? Were you just touring the
place
> >or were you working?
>
> 1980 was Nicaragua - slap bang in the middle of the Sandinista
> revolution.  LOL

It was also when the civil war started in El Salvador. That is what I
thought you were talking about. Romero was assasinated in 1980...

> This was a bit later than that.  Just passing through, minding my own
> business.

So you were just being a tourist and not on any business....
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