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To: fat city
Your screen name made me recall the times when Fat City traffic would back up across my driveway in Metairie every Mardi Gras.

Muleteam1

71 posted on 05/04/2005 7:22:22 PM PDT by Muleteam1
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To: Muleteam1

Hehe- wasn't me- honest. I lived there in 1973 and there was talk of moving "Bourbon Street" out to a strip plaza in Metairie since the original was such a hole. Also remember how unpopular "cajuns" were in N.O. How times have changed.


90 posted on 05/04/2005 8:01:25 PM PDT by fat city (Julius Rosenberg's soviet code name was "Liberal")
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To: Muleteam1; fat city

This is for you New Orleans freepers.

In 1988 I was in New Orleans for the Republican Convention and got lost. It wasn't my fault, though, the desk clerk told me to take the "Nawlins" exit! Honest. I even asked him to repeat it several times because it was such a strange-sounding name. Of course, he couldn't pronounce it "Noo Or-leens" like regular people so like an idiot I just kept driving and driving looking for the exit spelled "Nawlins," until I ended up across the river in the public housing section of town and had to ask directions from a guy who worked inside a fortress-like glass cage at a very scary gas station. Except for that, and the suffocating humidity, "Nawlins" is a fun town.


109 posted on 05/04/2005 8:36:11 PM PDT by Liberty Wins (Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of all who threaten it.)
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