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#622483 - 11/05/09 04:09 PM Re: Go Ahead - Laugh... [Re: DrEntropy]
BabaKahawa Offline

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Originally Posted By: DrEntropy
Originally Posted By: coldplugs
Crude, bog slow, French. But I've always liked them - I guess because of their jaunty appearance. (As a Maigret fan I'm forced to like them anyway.) Saw one being driven in a highway rest area last summer.


First three descriptors about sums it up fer me.


Doc;
You have to get past the door....... to the french maid inside with a bottle of fine wine. oui, oui banana
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#622499 - 11/05/09 04:26 PM Re: Go Ahead - Laugh... [Re: BabaKahawa]
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BabaK, I been exposed to French ~engineering~ from waay long ago. I have scant appreciation for three lug nuts per wheel.

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Twin brother Mickey calls me a Cretin. He may well be correct. Mom gave HIM piano lessons. All she give me wuz a hammer. smirk
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#622500 - 11/05/09 04:29 PM Re: Go Ahead - Laugh... [Re: DrEntropy]
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RUTABAGA!!!!


laugh
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#622514 - 11/05/09 05:03 PM Re: Go Ahead - Laugh... [Re: DrEntropy]
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Is that the car they blew up Micheals new wife in Sicily in the Godfather??
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#622523 - 11/05/09 05:19 PM Re: Go Ahead - Laugh... [Re: DNK]
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Originally Posted By: DNK
Is that the car they blew up Micheals new wife in Sicily in the Godfather??

No, don't think so...it looked like a pre-WWII Italian car.
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#622524 - 11/05/09 05:19 PM Re: Go Ahead - Laugh... [Re: tony barnhill]
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Fuzzy memory
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#622526 - 11/05/09 05:22 PM Re: Go Ahead - Laugh... [Re: DrEntropy]
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Originally Posted By: DrEntropy
........I have scant appreciation for three lug nuts per wheel.....



So true!

One is plenty!! jester

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#622528 - 11/05/09 05:26 PM Re: Go Ahead - Laugh... [Re: DrEntropy]
BabaKahawa Offline

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Originally Posted By: DrEntropy

Twin brother Mickey calls me a Cretin. He may well be correct. Mom gave HIM piano lessons. All she give me wuz a hammer. smirk


Too Funny....... hammer
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#622538 - 11/05/09 05:49 PM Re: Go Ahead - Laugh... [Re: DrEntropy]
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Yoda

Registered: 04/07/05
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Originally Posted By: DrEntropy
BabaK, I been exposed to French ~engineering~ from waay long ago. I have scant appreciation for three lug nuts per wheel.

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devil jester

Twin brother Mickey calls me a Cretin. He may well be correct. Mom gave HIM piano lessons. All she give me wuz a hammer. smirk
-- yah but you aint nevah worked on a
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#622562 - 11/05/09 07:43 PM Re: Go Ahead - Laugh... [Re: DNK]
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Originally Posted By: DNK
Is that the car they blew up Micheals new wife in Sicily in the Godfather??


No - that was a gorgeous Alfa coupe.
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#622565 - 11/05/09 07:52 PM Re: Go Ahead - Laugh... [Re: coldplugs]
DNK Offline
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your right. It had to be Italian. Not frickin French
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#622577 - 11/05/09 08:58 PM Re: Go Ahead - Laugh... [Re: DNK]
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Yoda

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dnk, take it easy on the french please, afer all they gave us toast! banana

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#622586 - 11/05/09 09:56 PM Re: Go Ahead - Laugh... [Re: anthony7777]
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...and fries
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#622598 - 11/05/09 10:39 PM Re: Go Ahead - Laugh... [Re: DNK]
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And Bridgette Bardot,and the Poodle! devil jester

Vive La France!

Stuart. cheers

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#622703 - 11/06/09 09:07 AM Re: Go Ahead - Laugh... [Re: ecurie_ecosse]
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agree

Not to mention smelly cheese and the wine to make it palatable.... devil jester
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#622712 - 11/06/09 09:19 AM Re: Go Ahead - Laugh... [Re: JamesWilson]
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Roquefort! Coq au vin! La Belle France!

Many happy memories of France from my corporate days. Hope to go back soon.
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#622764 - 11/06/09 11:47 AM Re: Go Ahead - Laugh... [Re: coldplugs]
tony barnhill Offline
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Didn't they also give us the bikini?
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#622776 - 11/06/09 11:57 AM Re: Go Ahead - Laugh... [Re: tony barnhill]
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Originally Posted By: tony barnhill
Didn't they also give us the bikini?


From what I remember seeing along the river banks in Paris, just the bottoms.

(Congrat's on your 24,000th post!)
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#622788 - 11/06/09 12:14 PM Re: Go Ahead - Laugh... [Re: coldplugs]
tony barnhill Offline
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Originally Posted By: coldplugs
Originally Posted By: tony barnhill
Didn't they also give us the bikini?


From what I remember seeing along the river banks in Paris, just the bottoms.

(Congrat's on your 24,000th post!)

hehehehe....Doc's way ahead of me!
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#622793 - 11/06/09 12:18 PM Re: Go Ahead - Laugh... [Re: 3798j]
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Originally Posted By: 3798j
They are pretty, and this one seems to be a good example. Northshore Imports website shows an asking price of $27,995. http://www.northshoresportscars.com/used-inventory/


Jay, this looks like the same car. Northshore Imports are in Lake Bluff, IL as well.
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