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To: Rambi who wrote (7398)	2/13/1998 1:11:00 PM
From: username	Respond to of 71178

yipes! sorry for the ugly mental picture. coulda been worse though, it could have been a hostile Italian woman whippin' on ya while you were trying to paint it in the first place. I don't like France. I never have. I'll find some better stuff and post all of it up for the next couple of hours.

To: Rambi who wrote (7398)	2/14/1998 5:14:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Quite a feat-think about it), but mostly it was the Japanese committing the offense. I wonder why. They are driven by motives beyond our comprehension. Here they wander about taking snaps of shop windows: shoes, pots and pans, whatever. I really don't understand why people take pictures in museums. Paintings are extremely difficult to photograph, and if they're under glass, impossible. A supposedly true story: a woman approached a guard at the MMA and asked, "Can I take pictures?" He replied: "We'd really rather you looked at them here".

To: Rambi who wrote (7398)	2/14/1998 7:11:00 PM
From: Thomas C. White	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

Not to worry penni -- in general, the French consider any admonition against doing something to be a perfectly good excuse to do it. I have it on good authority that they specifically target "no smoking areas" (there are a total of nine of them in the entire country) as especially good locations to light up. Ditto a sign you will sometimes see in parks in Paris that says, "Absolutely No Dogs Allowed!!" Something about their general love of sneering at anything that smacks of "abusive" authority above and beyond their own view of what makes perfectly good sense to them. Along these lines, I understand that the French are first among all developed nations in the number of unchecked voice mails and emails on their company telecommunications systems. It is the height of futility to leave a voice mail message or an email for a Frenchman. They consider these technological advances to be an insult to their perquisite to be selective in whom they elect to allow in their infinite wisdom to speak or write to them.