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| 14433 | Hey, could you guys provide an ENGLISH translation for us poor linguistically ch | Lazarus_Long | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14432 | I found that when entertaining some French "friends of a friend" some | Neocon | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14431 | I know a little of this, a little of that myself, but never focused on ordinary | Neocon | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14430 | I think he was probably the "exception that proves the rule." He had n | Constant Reader | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14429 | <i>but her husband stepped into the breach and answered in fluent French. | Lane3 | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14428 | <i>I would do markedly better on another trip to Paris, but would still fe | Lane3 | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14427 | About 25 years ago, the parents of a friend of mine got in an elevator after eat | Constant Reader | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14426 | I took French for about 4 years in junior and senior high school, and a couple m | Neocon | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14425 | I haven't spoken French in forty years. That's fuggedaboutit territory. | Lane3 | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14424 | Rare as it seems, there are occasions when justice does overcome prestige, money | Constant Reader | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14423 | I was quite happy to notice <i><b>that,</b></i> as we ha | Constant Reader | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14422 | <i>n'est pas "aûot" mais "vacances." </i& | Lane3 | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14421 | Thank you! I'm glad <i><b>someone</b></i> noticed th | Constant Reader | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14420 | LOL. Good one. | Lane3 | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14419 | As for the other languages I do butcher an regular (or irregular) basis, I was b | Constant Reader | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14418 | ROFL! Subjunctive present tense <i>mais non?</i> but you probably sh | Constant Reader | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14417 | No, I don't do estate planning. Good thing! | The Philosopher | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14416 | J'ai étudié pendant <i>six</i> années et ne sais | E | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14415 | Actually, there is no limit, for estate tax purposes, on gifts to charity. 100% | Constant Reader | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14414 | Shhhhhh. It's not nice to gloat. | The Philosopher | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14413 | Tut tut. You greedy thing. You deserve all the grief your trusts give you. No | The Philosopher | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14412 | <b>Skakel found guilty of murder</b> msnbc.com | Lazarus_Long | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14411 | Je suis désolé! Bien que j'aie étudié pendant quatre ann | Constant Reader | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14410 | B!^CH! :-) I've only got 2 and you want BOTH! How greedy! <i> I co | Lazarus_Long | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14409 | This was my money, not my parents. I had the trusts set up to allow me to avoid | Lazarus_Long | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14408 | Some of us have parents who decided to leave what money they have in trust rathe | The Philosopher | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14407 | <i> I still get stuck with rounding up the papers for the trusts. Yuck! &l | E | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14406 | <i>What I really need is a TurboGetAllThePapersTogether. </i> I' | Lazarus_Long | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14405 | Can't say they are that accommodating...... | Neocon | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14404 | Good to know that they are improving.... | Neocon | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14403 | Do they come to your house and rifle through drawers and files and folders? Do t | E | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14402 | Translations can be difficult for those who are bilingual much less computer pro | goldworldnet | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14401 | Somewhat. We were discussing a point of French usage earlier.....In my experienc | Neocon | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14400 | We decided to patronize H&R Block. It saves on the wear and tear......... | Neocon | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14399 | Bablefish works fairly well. Does E speak French? * * * | goldworldnet | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14398 | I've bookmarked both. I <i>love</i> WordReference! It's now | E | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14397 | Oh, I just thought E would be interested in the site. Sorry for the confusion... | Neocon | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14396 | I used babelfish.altavista.com to translate your link fr.news.yahoo.com I | goldworldnet | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14395 | Check it out: fr.news.yahoo.com and this: wordreference.com (A downloada | Neocon | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14394 | Excellent. (I don't know that Yahoo site.) I now imagine that I remember tha | E | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14393 | it's just terminology. Where I said cost basis, just say tax basis. Or bas | The Philosopher | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14392 | Here is an example from the Yahoo! Actualites site: vendredi 7 juin 2002 Neith | Neocon | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14391 | Oddly, if you put 'August' alone into the online translator, the you get | E | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14390 | You are welcome......Yes, if need be, you would write 15ieme. However, there is | Neocon | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14389 | Thank you! You omitted the circonflex over the 'u' and accent grave ove | E | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14388 | I believe it is: -----le mercredi 15 aout, a midi. fini | Neocon | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14387 | <i>But he didn't.</i> He says he did. I believe him. And since | jlallen | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14386 | I propose that anytime we discuss current tax code, the phrase 'if I underst | jttmab | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14385 | <i>You're really hitting the net tonight!</i> Don't worry, i | Lazarus_Long | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14384 | You're really hitting the net tonight! I would agree that 1/2 to 1/3 is mor | The Philosopher | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14383 | I've read that number. However, this source claims 1/3 to 1/2. gliah.uh.ed | Lazarus_Long | - | 6/7/2002 |
| 14382 | <i>But he didn't.</i> And you know this how? You think EVERYTHI | Lazarus_Long | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14381 | Pardon moi? You used the skunk metaphor first: Message 17560600 For that matte | Lazarus_Long | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14380 | Got it in email from a friend this morning. He liked #18 too. He would. | Lazarus_Long | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14379 | Was it up to 90%? Of course, slavery then wasn't a racial thing at all. Gr | The Philosopher | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14378 | I know what you just said. It has nothing to do with my point. Which is that h | E | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14377 | I will be <i>most</i> interested to see jttmab's response. Or a | Lazarus_Long | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14376 | Character? CHARACTER? There was an eight-year hunt for Slick Willie's char | Lazarus_Long | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14375 | That was a good find. Yes, given all the holidays they celebrated, with all the | The Philosopher | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14374 | <i>It's hard to describe what it's about. </i> Hate those. | Lazarus_Long | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14373 | <i> the Roman citizen worked two days a year to pay his taxes. </i> | Lazarus_Long | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14372 | I hope you knew it was a metaphor. I don't have a dog. You wrote about being | E | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14371 | No, this is just a language question. Someone asked me and I wasn't sure and | E | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14370 | Well... that's the problem. It's hard to describe what it's <i> | E | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14369 | Sorry to hear about your dog. Have you called the pound? Oh, and I thought we | Lazarus_Long | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14368 | Nothing works 100%, ...I can attest to that, ...but it does do a pretty good job | JEB | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14367 | Let's see, you're going to set up a meeting with a person with whom you | Lazarus_Long | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14366 | Well, yeah, but what was "Mulholland Drive" ABOUT???? What happened | Lazarus_Long | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14365 | Well, take it up with Fears. Sorry, it's Rufus, not Russell. I believe h | The Philosopher | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14364 | Hi, CR. I had to look back a bit to find you. I'm under the impression you s | E | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14363 | All true. | The Philosopher | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14362 | <i> BTW, according to Russell Fears, a lecturer on Roman history, the Roma | TimF | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14361 | Cost basis, tax basis. Same thing. The person getting the item has to assign a | The Philosopher | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14360 | <i>Putting aside for a moment the role and function of government. </i& | The Philosopher | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14359 | Yes if the value of your house goes up more you pay more taxes, but if you have | TimF | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14358 | Well, it got a lot of awards and attention, and I understand why, but it's n | E | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14357 | <i>You act as though the tax code were separate from the government.</i | jttmab | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14356 | <i>The property taxes are not a tax on an increase in wealth. I would | The Philosopher | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14355 | <i>The tax basis would be attached to the asset received. Nothing more req | jttmab | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14354 | <i>It's not a question of "attitude"; it's a question of | The Philosopher | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14353 | That is a very funny list of quotes and didn't get the appreciation it deser | E | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14352 | Maybe not. I remember the Russians had the big boy that would do the job. | Ish | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14351 | Yes, we did. And what does that have to do with the fact that our new watchdog k | E | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14350 | I was watching some PBS on new diseases a few weeks ago. They advanced the expla | goldworldnet | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14349 | <i>Would you find me a politician who never broke a campaign promise? Just | E | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14348 | <i>But what one views as equitable is, or course, very much dependent on o | jttmab | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14347 | <i> The subject is the tax code and what is defined as tax liability | TimF | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14346 | <i> Are you saying that you don't know the difference between property | TimF | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14345 | So how was "Mulholland Drive"? | Lazarus_Long | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14344 | <i> flat-type smallpox with a mortality rate >96% ..................... | Lazarus_Long | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14343 | <i> We also paid the Russians to airlift our damaged plane out. They had a | TimF | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14342 | It never occurred to me that there were multiple strains..... <i>During t | goldworldnet | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14341 | <i>And you said wealth is only accumulated through tax deferment.</i> | jttmab | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14340 | <i>You also seem to be taking the common liberal attitude that wealth inhe | jttmab | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14339 | <i>Because no profit has been realized on most of that accumulated wealth. | jttmab | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14338 | This might explain it: <i>Vaccinia virus is the prototype of the genus Ort | Lazarus_Long | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14337 | There's no doubt cowpox was used as the first smallpox vaccine, but it appea | goldworldnet | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14336 | Yep, like a million bucks or there about. $998,000 for the second hand MIG and $ | Ish | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14335 | <i>Oh, but you seem to be trying to imply that the only way to accumulate | jttmab | - | 6/6/2002 |
| 14334 | But... but.... but.... Jenner discovered vaccination in the 18th century. He u | Lazarus_Long | - | 6/6/2002 |
