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No one says merci to evleth !!!!
"Earl Evleth" a écrit dans le message de ... On 2/03/09 23:39, in article , "Bill Bonde { No matter what happens, it's caused by global warming )" wrote: Are you sure you didn't hit him on the head? Yes, he had to look around for the money and found it about 10 feet from where he was standing. And I yelled to him "merci". |
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Earl Evleth wrote: On 2/03/09 23:39, in article , "Bill Bonde { No matter what happens, it's caused by global warming )" wrote: Are you sure you didn't hit him on the head? Yes, he had to look around for the money and found it about 10 feet from where he was standing. And I yelled to him "merci". That's what everyone says when people are throwing things at them: "Mother of Merci, is this the end of Rico?" References used in this post: Little Caesar (1931): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021079/quotes -- He and Evie soon fell into a conversation of the "No, I didn't; yes, you did" type--conversation which, though fascinating to those who are engaged in it, neither desires nor deserves the attention of others. -+E.M. Forster, "Howards End" |
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From: "Bill Bonde { No matter what happens, it's caused by global warming )" Organization: Our legacy is not the lives we lived but the lives we leave to those who come after us. Newsgroups: alt.activism.death-penalty,rec.travel.europe,soc.retirement Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:40:11 +0000 Subject: Street musicians Earl Evleth wrote: On 2/03/09 23:39, in article , "Bill Bonde { No matter what happens, it's caused by global warming )" wrote: Are you sure you didn't hit him on the head? Yes, he had to look around for the money and found it about 10 feet from where he was standing. And I yelled to him "merci". That's what everyone says when people are throwing things at them: "Mother of Merci, is this the end of Rico?" Isn't there a movie newsgroup you can post on, and spare the rest of us? Donna Evleth References used in this post: Little Caesar (1931): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021079/quotes -- He and Evie soon fell into a conversation of the "No, I didn't; yes, you did" type--conversation which, though fascinating to those who are engaged in it, neither desires nor deserves the attention of others. -+E.M. Forster, "Howards End" |
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On 4/03/09 14:44, in article , "Donna
Evleth" wrote: That's what everyone says when people are throwing things at them: "Mother of Merci, is this the end of Rico?" Isn't there a movie newsgroup you can post on, and spare the rest of us? The reference escaped me. |
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Another OT invasion by the evleths !!!!
You may denounce them to their provider, they like that !
"Donna Evleth" a écrit dans le message de ... From: "Bill Bonde { No matter what happens, it's caused by global warming )" Organization: Our legacy is not the lives we lived but the lives we leave to those who come after us. Newsgroups: alt.activism.death-penalty,rec.travel.europe,soc.retirement Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:40:11 +0000 Subject: Street musicians Earl Evleth wrote: On 2/03/09 23:39, in article , "Bill Bonde { No matter what happens, it's caused by global warming )" wrote: Are you sure you didn't hit him on the head? Yes, he had to look around for the money and found it about 10 feet from where he was standing. And I yelled to him "merci". That's what everyone says when people are throwing things at them: "Mother of Merci, is this the end of Rico?" Isn't there a movie newsgroup you can post on, and spare the rest of us? Donna Evleth References used in this post: Little Caesar (1931): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021079/quotes -- He and Evie soon fell into a conversation of the "No, I didn't; yes, you did" type--conversation which, though fascinating to those who are engaged in it, neither desires nor deserves the attention of others. -+E.M. Forster, "Howards End" |
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A lot of things escaped you and please communicate with your wife elsewhere
than here. "Earl Evleth" a écrit dans le message de ... On 4/03/09 14:44, in article , "Donna Evleth" wrote: That's what everyone says when people are throwing things at them: "Mother of Merci, is this the end of Rico?" Isn't there a movie newsgroup you can post on, and spare the rest of us? The reference escaped me. |
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On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:21:44 +0100, Earl Evleth
wrote: It happens less frequently now. When we first move into our apartment in Paris at the end of the 70s we now and then have a man with his cart who'd come around and offer to sharpen you scissors and knives. For a fee. His cart had a grind stone. He eventually left and passed into the history books. I have not seen his kind again. It reminded me of when I was a kid in LA in the late 1930s when we had a man with an old truck who'd come through the neigbborhood to sell vegetables. He too eventually pass into history. Before that, in Chicago as a kid, there was a man who came up to our apartment with a block of ice to put in our ice box. I still call a refrigerator an ice box. He too passed onto the pages of history. I, too, remember all of that. And I remember the rag men, with a horse drawn cart, yelling out "RAGS!!" For a few pennies they would exchange your old rags for the rags they had washed. My mother actually used them from time to time. And I remember the beggars who came door to door, in inner city Chicago, asking for just a few pennies, or even a bowl of soap, or a slice of bread. And they were honorable men, and not thieves. clipped Planet Visitor II http://alt-activism-death-penalty.info/dictionary.html |
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And I remember when the man would drive his cart around crying out "Their so
fresh and fine, just off of the vine, strawb-e-e-r-i-es! Then pretty soon another guy would drive around singing out "Fresh Cra-abs,fresh cra-abs" "Planet Visitor II" wrote in message ... On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:21:44 +0100, Earl Evleth wrote: It happens less frequently now. When we first move into our apartment in Paris at the end of the 70s we now and then have a man with his cart who'd come around and offer to sharpen you scissors and knives. For a fee. His cart had a grind stone. He eventually left and passed into the history books. I have not seen his kind again. It reminded me of when I was a kid in LA in the late 1930s when we had a man with an old truck who'd come through the neigbborhood to sell vegetables. He too eventually pass into history. Before that, in Chicago as a kid, there was a man who came up to our apartment with a block of ice to put in our ice box. I still call a refrigerator an ice box. He too passed onto the pages of history. I, too, remember all of that. And I remember the rag men, with a horse drawn cart, yelling out "RAGS!!" For a few pennies they would exchange your old rags for the rags they had washed. My mother actually used them from time to time. And I remember the beggars who came door to door, in inner city Chicago, asking for just a few pennies, or even a bowl of soap, or a slice of bread. And they were honorable men, and not thieves. clipped Planet Visitor II http://alt-activism-death-penalty.info/dictionary.html |
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