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Ben E Lou · 05-24-2005, 04:22 PM

Q: What's the one country on the planet that I never thought I'd visit, but it looks like I may be seeing next summer?

kcchief19 · 05-24-2005, 04:26 PM

Q: Will SkyDog need a sleeping bag if he visits France?

Buzzbee · 05-24-2005, 04:26 PM

I give up.

Ben E Lou · 05-24-2005, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by kcchief19

Q: Will SkyDog need a sleep bag if he visits France?

Based on the kinds of places I'm guessing that everyone will be staying, I just might.

Ben E Lou · 05-24-2005, 04:30 PM

The good news is that I might have the opportunity to explain to Ol' Cuzzin Pug why he was wrong about the confederate flag issue.

WSUCougar · 05-24-2005, 04:33 PM

Years later, it was to this event that historians pointed as the true introduction of the "wishbone" into the European football consciousness.

Radii · 05-24-2005, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by WSUCougar

Years later, it was to this event that historians pointed as the true introduction of the "wishbone" into the European football consciousness.

Nicely done.

ShaqFu · 05-24-2005, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by SkyDog

Based on the kinds of places I'm guessing that everyone will be staying, I just might.

Hostels usually don't even require you to bring a sleeping bag. For a $1 or $2 they'll toss you sheets, pillow and towel.

Buccaneer · 05-24-2005, 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by SkyDog

Q: What's the one country on the planet that I never thought I'd visit, but it looks like I may be seeing next summer?

Why?

Ben E Lou · 05-24-2005, 06:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Buccaneer

Why?

I married into a blue-blood family. The Ravenels are of Huguenot descent. They do family reunions from time to time, sometimes in Charleston, where the two original immigrant Ravenel brothers settled when they came to America in the 1600's, I think, and other times in France. I haven't met cuzzin Arthur Ravenel yet. He's a fourth or fifth cousin or so of my wife's. There are two distinct branches of Ravenels--the clans headed by the two brothers originally--the "Wantoot" Ravenels and the "Pooshee" Ravenels--named after the Indians' names for the areas in which their original two plantations were. I forget which one my wife is, but Pug is from the other brother's lineage. Apparently, though, the descendants of both brothers are trying to make the trek to France for this one. I'm going to make two guesses here:

1. I'll be the only black person invited.
2. I am NOT, however, the first person who descends from Africans to be a member of the Ravenel family. I have very little doubt that there are more than just a handful of blood relatives of my wife's who you'd never have guessed were...

By the way, if you do a search on the sites linked to above that the Wantoot and Pooshee details are on, it is quite stunning just how many plantations that Ravenels were owners or partial owners of down through the years. Looking at how many of those old homes were burned by yankee soldiers, I'm thinking I'm owed reparations on TWO accounts, dadgummit! Them yankees burned up part of my childrens' inheritance!!!

gottimd · 05-24-2005, 06:22 PM

Kazakhstan?

Stay at the Courtyard there, its great. It has a starbucks right next to it.

Buccaneer · 05-24-2005, 06:31 PM

SD, interesting.

By the way, I have a great-great-great Uncle who died at Andersonville. Let me know when they start handing out reparation to Georgians.

MIJB#19 · 05-25-2005, 05:07 AM

Oh my, a sign of the Apocalypse coming!

fantastic flying froggies · 05-25-2005, 11:56 AM

Great news SD; do you know where exactly you will be going?

Ben E Lou · 05-25-2005, 11:59 AM

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Originally Posted by fantastic flying froggies

Great news SD; do you know where exactly you will be going?

Not yet. No details yet. I would assume somewhere near wherever the Huguenot Ravenels embarked from France back in the day.

Buzzbee · 05-25-2005, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Buzzbee

I give up.

I'm sad nobody laughed at my joke.

fantastic flying froggies · 05-25-2005, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Buzzbee

I'm sad nobody laughed at my joke.

Because you got it wrong.

The correct answer was 'I surrender'...

SackAttack · 05-25-2005, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by fantastic flying froggies

Because you got it wrong.

The correct answer was 'I surrender'...

When the Frenchies have to explain your own joke to you, Buzzer, you're in trouble.

Buzzbee · 05-25-2005, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by SackAttack

When the Frenchies have to explain your own joke to you, Buzzer, you're in trouble.

Sad, but true.

Guess I'll go drink some California wine, eat some waffle fries, and stare at my post card of the Statue of Liberty.

Poli · 05-25-2005, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by SkyDog

Q: What's the one country on the planet that I never thought I'd visit, but it looks like I may be seeing next summer?

Tonga.

3ric · 05-25-2005, 03:17 PM

Have you been to Europe before, SD?

Ben E Lou · 05-25-2005, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by 3ric

Have you been to Europe before, SD?

Nope. The Lake Louise area near Calgary, Alberta, Canada is the farthest away from Georgia I've ever been. I don't own a passport.

3ric · 05-25-2005, 03:24 PM

Well, at least you should be able to enjoy the local wines... but maybe you're in for a bit of a culture shock...

Ben E Lou · 05-25-2005, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by 3ric

Well, at least you should be able to enjoy the local wines... but maybe you're in for a bit of a culture shock...

They all speak English, right?

hhiipp · 05-25-2005, 03:37 PM

Be sure to make copies of Skydog's greatest hits and pass it out in France so you can pimp your CD sales internationally.

3ric · 05-25-2005, 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by SkyDog

They all speak English, right?

I wouldn't be so sure, in the major cities about 30-40% do I think... FFF, DK or Alf is welcome to correct me if I'm wrong

fantastic flying froggies · 05-25-2005, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by 3ric

I wouldn't be so sure, in the major cities about 30-40% do I think... FFF, DK or Alf is welcome to correct me if I'm wrong

Well, most of us speak some english...whether you understand it is another question...

No really, I must say I'm pretty ashamed of our overall grasp of english, we really suck. (which is often wrongly interpreted as arrogance by foreigners visiting France - it's not that we don't want to speak english, it's just that we can't!)

As 3ric said, if you stick to the major cities, you should be OK but beyond that, you're on your own!

fantastic flying froggies · 05-25-2005, 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Buzzbee

Sad, but true.

Guess I'll go drink some California wine, eat some waffle fries, and stare at my post card of the Statue of Liberty.

FWIW, there's a tiny replica of the Statue of Liberty in the little town 5 miles from where I live...it's maybe 6 feet high...

Ben E Lou · 05-25-2005, 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by fantastic flying froggies

Well, most of us speak some english...whether you understand it is another question...

No really, I must say I'm pretty ashamed of our overall grasp of english, we really suck. (which is often wrongly interpreted as arrogance by foreigners visiting France - it's not that we don't want to speak english, it's just that we can't!)

As 3ric said, if you stick to the major cities, you should be OK but beyond that, you're on your own!

Do many people speak Spanish? I'm somewhat-conversant in Spanish.

fantastic flying froggies · 05-25-2005, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by SkyDog

Do many people speak Spanish? I'm somewhat-conversant in Spanish.

Yes, if you go in the South.

Not really anywhere else. (except of course Alf who's in Britanny, that's the northwest but I'm not sure there are many of his kind up there!

)

Ben E Lou · 05-25-2005, 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by fantastic flying froggies

Yes, if you go in the South.

I have a vague maybe-recollection that the Ravenels came from the southern coast, but that could be wrong.

fantastic flying froggies · 05-25-2005, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by SkyDog

I have a vague maybe-recollection that the Ravenels came from the southern coast, but that could be wrong.

That would make sense actually, from a historical view, as a lot of Huguenots came from the South.

Looks you might be heading my way!

JeeberD · 05-25-2005, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by fantastic flying froggies

As 3ric said, if you stick to the major cities, you should be OK but beyond that, you're on your own!

We usually didn't have much trouble getting around in France, but of course my father speaks nearly fluent German so there was usually someone around who spoke one of the two languages...

In regards to major cities, in my experience the French people seem to be friendlier in the countryside. We had eggs thrown at our tour bus in Paris, but when traveling through people were more than happy to help us with directions/translations/etc...

fantastic flying froggies · 05-25-2005, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by SkyDog

I have a vague maybe-recollection that the Ravenels came from the southern coast, but that could be wrong.

then again, doing a quick google search, there seems to be a village of Ravenel up in the North, so who knows?

Link to to their website, if you're interested. (It's in French, and poorly designed, but still...)
http://ravenel.oise.free.fr/Accueil/Page_1.htm

JeeberD · 05-25-2005, 04:32 PM

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babel....htm#Barbe2005

They BBQ in France?!?!?

Darkiller · 05-25-2005, 04:56 PM

Nice !!

Let us know when and where exactly do you come to France.
If, by any chance, you come to Paris we can hook up SD.

st.cronin · 05-25-2005, 05:02 PM

In fairness to the French I should point that I speak English fluently and there are places in the Confederacy where I can't understand a word anybody says.

Dutch · 05-25-2005, 07:10 PM

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Originally Posted by fantastic flying froggies

FWIW, there's a tiny replica of the Statue of Liberty in the little town 5 miles from where I live...it's maybe 6 feet high...

It used to be eight feet, but. 'Off with her head' and all that.

Dutch · 05-25-2005, 07:20 PM

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Originally Posted by st.cronin

In fairness to the French I should point that I speak English fluently and there are places in the Confederacy where I can't understand a word anybody says.

In all fairness to the English, I know places in the Conferacy that speak French in a way that's totally incoherent.

MIJB#19 · 05-26-2005, 02:31 AM

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Originally Posted by JeeberD

We usually didn't have much trouble getting around in France, but of course my father speaks nearly fluent German so there was usually someone around who spoke one of the two languages...

I'm shocked, you mean there actually are people on this planet who speak both French and German and are not from the Benelux countries?

fantastic flying froggies · 05-26-2005, 02:36 AM

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Originally Posted by MIJB#19

I'm shocked, you mean there actually are people on this planet who speak both French and German and are not from the Benelux countries?

Maybe he was in Alsace...

Alf · 05-26-2005, 07:11 AM

Yeah, SkyDog comes to the country of evil

! As many people said, 99% of french people do not speaking anything but french. That's where you biggest problem lies.

Apart from that, the fact that you are black is a non issue to me. But the fact that you are black and BIG might get you a lot of attention

I'll be pleased to indicate you places to visit whenever you know how your trips is set.

JeeberD · 05-26-2005, 09:35 AM

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Originally Posted by MIJB#19

I'm shocked, you mean there actually are people on this planet who speak both French and German and are not from the Benelux countries?

Erm...I meant English and German... :o

ice4277 · 05-26-2005, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by ardent enthusiast

Tonga.

Stop stealing my guesses.

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