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On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:30:01 -0500, "DoD" <thecats@ss.mil> wrote:

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>"The Re'vr''ddd" <reniggade@anglikkkoon.com.za> wrote in message
>news:4538e814.17411236@news.onetel.net.uk...:
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>> >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.
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>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 haven't heard that before. I have heard it being used on both sexes..
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>> Over here it's the females who are usually bird-brained.
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>What do you say for the males?

Usually something far less polite.

>> >> Apparently they're attracted to areas of human habitation because
>> >> that's where they're most likely to find rodents.
>> >
>> >Would that be considered a symbiotic relationship then?
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>> I suppose so.   But I think most people would rather live with rats
>> than vipers.
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>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

>> >> 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?
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>> 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).
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>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

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