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To: Sig who wrote (125692)	3/6/2004 12:19:08 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Never sat on the sand in a wet bathing suit on the Lake Michigan shore cooking marshmallows on a stick when the temperature is 58 degrees. Sounds fun up by you, Sig. I'd certainly give up French food for that experience in a minute. Not really. -g-

To: Sig who wrote (125692)	3/6/2004 3:09:02 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Respond to of 281500

Probably dont know how to kill a chicken or milk a cow. You're clearly unaware that up in till only 30 years or so ago, French economy was still primarily agrarian. Many French friends of mine, of my generation, very well remember their parents slaughtering a pig on the farm, or having an outhouse behind the family home. Many of the modern conveniences that were "all in" by the time of my early childhood in the 50's and after were somewhat late in coming to France, and Europe in general. Not to mention behind the Iron Curtain, where one had to wait till after the Berlin Wall came down : the Eastern Bloc countries were kept firmly in third world status thanks to the Soviets. Today France is every bit as modern as the US in terms of these things, they have caught up fast, but even in the early 80's France was quite different from the US in this regard. But as I warned in another message, modern American conveniences do not even make a dent in promoting democracy - as Saudi Arabia vividly demonstrates today.