To: zonder who wrote (49948 ) 1/14/2004 12:03:38 PM From: X Y Zebra Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 57110 (including a really nice top I recently bought at Gucci), your question has lost relevance quite a while ago, imho. hmmm perhaps for you... but again, if the price is right the fact that it would be American may make a difference. (to some). The point I was making was about reducing the price of American things and push them with good marketing... the elements of success are there... (but maybe not in your case...) :~]I prefer Guess to "REAL AMERICAN COWBOY" jeans :-) Guess eh? hmmmm well... I am not particularly fond of things too country so, I suppose I understand.... ;~] but I was referring to the mass markets... so there.I don't think it's just the first year. I knew it was not only for the first year... I am not sure however, that the law is still in place... there was talk last year of eliminating all together, but I suppose it never got discarded... great !You must have led a sheltered life hehehe.... i doubt it... -g However... I was brought up under the influence of sports life ... you know... "mens sana in corpore sano" and I am not complaining as it has huge benefits as one grows older :~] But... I was also brought up (since being a child) to learn to drink good wine... and I thank my father for that. Because not only I learned about wine, it stopped me from getting senselessly drunk... (as some of my friends did, and some present day teenagers do... just because it has alcohol, they drink). So... again... Tequila has a NASTY taste... hideous. As for the drug thing... well... Yes.. I have heard of that and luckily for me.... I was also brought up as a decent individual and I would never be around that sort of stuff... if someone offered to me (for me to use it, that is)... I am not sure I would be too kind to the person that would offer it to me... I would probably tell him to go to hell very quickly... I understand that being a woman carries added risks... and you were smart to discard it.... rape drug.... I fail to understand what kind of an animal would use such... but then again, since it happens often as it seems, I must be from another planet... or another era... I suppose that in that respect... well, I am old fashioned I suppose Anyway... uff what a bunch of sick bastards.... no wonder we are so screwed up (in general)... and worse... what hope do we have to really cleaning up our act... Mad Max.... here we come...