[LonePalm]

THis is great, two replies to my bad joke this fast.

Argh, mais bien sûr.

Eala, What's up? The lovely and talented LibreOuMort didn't reply to my posting in French? Sacre Blue Law!

Are you guys all right? You haven't been smoking Gauloises have you? Those things will kill you and make everyone around you wish they were dead.

'La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.' - Auguste Escoffier
(Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Eala]

Eala, What's up? The lovely and talented LibreOuMort didn't reply to my posting in French? Sacre Blue Law!

LibreOuMort doesn't log into FR very often. She often doesn't get much past checking the e-mail (there's so much of it).

Right now we're trying to figure out who persuade to run as the Republican gubernatorial candidate of this benighted state. (As if we really had that kind of influence, but it's never stopped us before.) Another potential candidate backed out this afternoon, leaving us with one -- who'd be superb, but he won't take the final step and commit. Smoking Gauloises? Argh! (Nope, sorry, Argh, I mean Arrrrgh!) We'll be smoking worse than that if we can't get a decent candidate!

[Argh]

A couple of years ago for Christmas, I got my sister-in-law an Edith Piaf CD, which she was of an age etc. to appreciate. The next year I got her the best French wine I could find around here (not that swell) and a pack of Gauloises to enjoy with it (she'd have to find her own beret). Gauloises are sold in only one store I could find in this area (Vancouver), and they don't come in the soft light blue packs, they come in the Canaduh cardboard with whiny warnings and pictures - and they're filtered! Blasphemy!! Oh, well, I got a pack for me too, and they still have most of that rauchy old flavour. Can't find any Gitanes though.