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( Have a nice trip Desmond ... enjoy the Rockies ... couldn't you send me a postcard? I will send you one from France if you want!

( One of Dubya should be "Let's make war in Iraq!" or "I hate the French and the Germans ..."

( Nope, sorry ...

( Is Clinton sold with a cigar? How come Monica Lewinsky is not included in the first ladies?

( Yes, but it takes months to design and have them manufactured ... it was just a coincidence ... or the NSA and CIA gave the manufacturer the date and time of death of Reagan ...

( When I joined on November 1st ...

( taken during a walk in the hills ...

( General Chat too ...

( Try to remember your grammar rules ... if you see what I mean Use nice link words ... However, On the one hand, Nevertheless, hitherto, etc ... teachers love those (and I know what I am talking about )

( Who's Timmie? Tim? Is that how you call him ZeZar? Maybe he doesn't like this new nickname ...

( Well, although it sounds like a stereotype saying that Americans only eat hamburgers, I still tend to think it is true. When I went to the US, while I was eating "normal food" (at least to me), the American people around me seemed to eat only VERY fat things like burgers or French fries ... So, until I am shown wrong, I still think ZeZar is in a way not totally wrong

( Good Lord, I had never figured out that the Report button was actually to report wrong deeds to the moderators ... Thanks for the info ZeZar ! Rep+

( Well, my homework is to correct students' homework ... so I don't really think that is very interesting in some ways ... well, if ever I get a funny thing in my corrections I will transmit it to you ... like : "Dracula should be blessed and given money if he lived in nowadays world since he would solve the retiree pension problem by drinking the blood of all the old people." That is taken from a test I corrected and I thought it was hilarious

( Books about Middle-Earth, Celtic and pre-Catholic legends (Arthur and Merlin to be more precise), space/aviation, essays about History ... cartoons, my wife's Cosmopolitan , etc ....

( Football (soccer for our American friends ... ) ... be the new Zidane Apart from that, if Rowing had been a professional sport, I would have loved to be a professional rower !

( I just sit in front of TV, with the sound down, I take a book and read and listen to music

( There was a municipal fiesta in a neighbouring village, where my grand-parents live. They organise every year a wine celebration ... it has been like that for the last 200 years or more I guess We had Foie Gras (Fat Duck liver) for starter, grilled chicken and grilled beef with fries and finally strawberries and apple cake for desert! I was really great, for only €10 !

( Well, same as in the whole of Europe ... Gas is $5 a gallon ... that is €5 a gallon (or €1 a liter ) Seems pretty normal to me ... at least, we try to economise it and our car companies (Renault, VW, Peugeot, Seat, Fiat, etc ...) do their best to design car that spend roughly 5 liter per 100 km ... that is 70 miles a gallon!

( LotR all the way ... Star Wars s***s !

( I hope I am ... I try my best The problem is to be cool enough with the students, but they have to understand I am not their friend and I can be tough sometimes.

( I am an English teacher. thus explaining my good English (I am French). I could have taught Maths as well ... but I focused on English At least, I can talk with students of things I like ... like The Hobbit, cinema, American History, etc ...

( In Europe, it is approximately $1 per liter ... so that is $5 per gallon!! I remember when I last went to the US, it was $1 a gallon!

( Yes

( Welcome here Gardi ... nice to see you. Hope you will feel at home here!

( I didn't miss you, but I thought you would never come back. Actually, I had even forgotten your name