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Catfish


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The Dancing Plague of 1518
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So I happened to come across this historical event today in a magazine I was reading during my lunch break. I just had to look it up on Wiki because it sounded so strange...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Plague_of_1518


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Truckman


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I remember it well...I quickly diagnosed it as jock itch and after letting the panic spread for a few weeks, I made a fortune with my Tinactin distributorship...idea...Ben

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JonnyStead


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they were French right? that kinda explains it - but I have to say I was disappointed that I didnt know of this incident. An occasion when 400 garlic eating surrender monkeys did themselves in through mass hysteria? genius... someone remind me why we keep stepping in when their neighbours want to wipe them out?

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JonnyStead


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Sorry, I'm gonna have to follow up on this rant - WHY? do we keep saving them? You can get better wine from Australia, we've ALWAYS made better cheese and bread than them and they spent a pretty big portion of their time deciding the sex of inanimate objects -

"Why Francois - zis table, does it look male or female to you? hmmm"?

"Well Michelle - yes you have girls name - you are a man and so is this table despite the fact that it doesnt have genitals - unlike you who clearly has a set, on your face..."

"Very well Francois - quick let us hide under the skirts of our mothers, ze Germans are coming... again... maybe ze British who we ridicule on a daily basis will come and save us from our own incompetence..."

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JonnyStead


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And one last thing... Ben? after D-Day - did you get a thank you from them? hmm hmm? I saw Private Ryan you know... they should thank me too just for that - the beach scene was scary.

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My dealings with the French are limited to encounters with them in the sixties when I was just another rat G.I...DeGaulle had ordered the eviction of all U.S. military presence from French soil...We were generally looked down on and despised for staying there so long after saving their country (again)...I only ventured into France once and that was on my way from Italy to the Grand Prix of Monaco in '68...I got the impression they couldn't get rid of me fast enough although they didn't turn down the American dollars I spent there...

On the plus side, there was a French girl that worked at the Green Lantern Bar in Luxemburg City that always remembered me when I stopped in there...And the French Matra/Ford engine had a sound that brings pleasant memories to this day...Sorry, I can't think of any other plusses...

Bottom line is if you save a Frenchman's skin, he'll hold the grudge forever...Ben

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JonnyStead


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Nice phrase - I'm gonna remember that one! I didnt realise the US troops were ordered to leave... that's gratitude for you...

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