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jaywalker  Gaining experience
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Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 8:12 am Post subject: guilty pleasures
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| Penelope; I live In Gent in Belgium. As you say, Thorne Smith is almost unknown today. Keep the flag flying. We Strange people must stick together !!J. |
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Penelope  Stupendously Brilliant Silver Contributor


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Jaywalker - Gent - Ghent?? Belgium is my favourite place in all of the World!!!!! Do you know 'Paul's Bar' in Ghent?
Where they sell all the different flavours of 'Geneva' - Gin. I once had a wonderful evening there....with a lot of Dutchmen. I hasten to add that my husband was with me.....but I did fall over when they eventually allowed us to go home!!!!
We really went to see the most enormous hanging basket of flowers - two or three years ago now. But we did get distracted by the gin!!!!
We visit Belgium fairly regularly to stock up with the wonderful beers. We make beer too in England.....but it isn't like yours.  |
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jaywalker  Gaining experience
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Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 10:39 am Post subject: guilty Pleasures
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| Penelope, Yes that's the place. I'm English, though and I've lived here for years ,with my wife who's an Italian. But what a coincidence ? Oh -but you don't believe in them; do you ? J. |
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jaywalker  Gaining experience
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Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 10:42 am Post subject: Guilty pleasures
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| Penelope, PS , I like the ''Cafe de Paris' on the Vrijdag markt. If you come again ,let me know and we'll buy you two a drink. |
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Penelope  Stupendously Brilliant Silver Contributor


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Jaywalker: - There are usually four of us....we come with a couple of friends....so meet up with us....and we'll buy you four drinks (hic!)!!!
When I say that I don't believe in coincidences.....I believe we meet the people we are 'meant' to meet.......so, not 'just' coincidence....
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 1:06 pm Post subject: Guilty pleasures
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Penelope -I have bought a bottle of Wortegemsen in your honour.
Since we like similar things,I thought you might like this, but tears may flow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH09cX_Sd4M |
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And...vis a vis - Telepathy....or whatever the hell it is.....
I am just watching your link 'Paths of Glory' - and the men in my house are watching.....Poland v Germany - European Cup.......
They were just playing Deuchland, Deutchland uber Alles........to your film...how much of a bloomin coincidence is that?
Jaywalker - Whatever this Atheistic Website says.....there is something more....even if it is just sent to confuse us.....
Keep in touch....this is interesting.....
PS- Tears are threatening to flow....and it isn't the alcohol...not this time.; |
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BabyBlues  I can enter The Chamber
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:12 pm Post subject: Evanovich
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| Janet Evanovich - Stephanie Plum Novels |
Daisy,
I love the Evanovich Plum series as well. As a Jersey girl myself, I have a penchant for books set in the Garden State and those are hilarious. FOr anyone who hasn't read them, the first is One for the Money. They follow the escapades of an inepy, but sometimes lucky...in all senses of the word, female bounty hunter.
My TV guilty pleasures include: Lost, Psych (about a fake psychic who works for the police ay times), Deadliest Catch, and anything that is not geared toward my 2 or 4 year old.  |
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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:19 am Post subject: Rockstars and hippies
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When I'm reading for fun, I like to read about rock stars and hippies. Once you start reading about famous sixties people, the same people turn up in
other books. It's like you're at a party and your old friends keep coming and going. I don't care about modern celeb gossip shows, but Frank Zappa and Andy Warhol were intensely interesting people. So was ken Kesey, but there's a lot more out there on the other two. My parents were hippies. |
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bibliophile_18 Eligible to vote!

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My guilty pleasures are eating a lot of junk food when I can, a pint of ice cream when I crave it, playing video games, and smoking. Yes, I know that smoking is bad, but that's why it's my guilty pleasure...It calms my nerves and makes me not so stabby when someone interrupts me doing my fun stuff.
I also love watching Big Brother and Survivor but here I either miss it because of work or I miss it because I have no clue what time to watch it...I'm always an hour late! |
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| I love to watch What Not To Wear. I also coule eat pizza and french fries, sometimes I love to stay in my PJs all day. I also really like to listen to Barry Mannilow |
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