Street musicians

On 3/03/09 14:25, in article
, "Terry
Bull" wrote:

ours come from Eastern Europe....I don't think they know that one

That is true here too, along with younger street beggars some of
who display young children (not always their own and illegal in France)
in order to take in my money. There has been, however, a decrease
in the young gangs of pickpockets.

Paris has always had these people but their national origins
change. The normal class of bums (clochards), usually alcoholics,
are still around, but the composition of the homeless has changed.
There are even some Americans among them. The number might now
increase as their ranks are filled by former bankers.

No one says merci to evleth !!!!

"Earl Evleth" a écrit dans le message de
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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".

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"

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"

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.

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"

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.

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.

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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"





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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