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On Sat, 05 Apr 2003 06:11:31 GMT, "Bill Huffman"
<bhuf...@REMOVE-THISsan.rr.com> wrote:

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>"Brad Martin" <br...@zakalwe.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:unir8vgg4uhgk75941usl5ik2qkd3238n7@4ax.com...

>> Does anyone have Pierre's address?
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>Now isn't one of the fine outcomes from the war that we can relish in our
>national comradery since we both now despise the French?

I thought Pierre was American?

Anyway, I certainly don't despise the French, it's apparent that some
of them need a good kicking, but that's the same wherever you go.

I've recently read two books by Frenchmen: 'The Diving Bell and the
Butterfly' by Jean-Dominique Bauby, a successful magazine editor who
suffered a massive stroke and awoke from a coma with 'Locked-in
Syndrome'. He was in possession of his full mental faculties but
imprisoned in a totally inert body. The only movement he could make
was to blink his left eye, and by doing so he painstakingly dictated
this beautiful book, dying shortly after it's completion. And 'The
Gate' by Francois Bizot, who was captured and tortured by the Khmer
Rouge and then later became an intermediary in the stand-off at the
French embassy. Anyone who thinks 'all Frenchmen are cowards' should
either read these books, or more properly, study some accounts of the
bravery of the French Resistance in WWII.

>BTW, I had bangers, mash and peas tonight with two pints of Guinness in honor of
>my special comrades.

Lol! Well in 39 years of living in dear old blighty, that's a
combination that my stomach couldn't handle. Sounds like something
Lemming would enjoy though.

br d