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From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net On Behalf Of Geoff Love
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 1997 10:12 AM
To: A.D.Smith
Cc: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: this french thing
A.D.Smith wrote:
>
> >>>>The French make funny cars and they don't like Americans.
> >>>>Dr. Doug
> >>>
> >>>Don't feel special, they don't like anybody.
>
> It's not that the French don't like anyone, it's that they don't like
> (and rightly so) people who turn up in the country and refuse to even try
> to speak the language, on the grounds that everyone should speak English.
>
> Many years spent in France, and observation have taught me that the culprits
> are more often than not, Americans. QED, quo vadis and all the rest.
>
> If you don't make any effort to get on with the French on their terms, in
> their language, you get all you deserve really. If you do make the effort,
> they are as warm, welcoming and friendly as anyone else. More genuinely
> friendly than a lot of Americans I've met, sorry.
>
> And as for the cars, the list of classics is long : 2CV, Traction Avant,
> lots of Panhards, Facel Vega, R4, DS, ID, those lovely corrugated iron vans
> painted grey, Alpine Renault, R Fuego (which is a great drive if properly
> put together), Delages, .......
>
> Andy
>
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Frog for:
<<<Bien sure. Et, n'oubliez pas le Citroyen Masseratti. A mon avis, il>>>
BUD
<<<etait le plus vite et tres confortable, mais tres cher, peutetre le plus>>>
WISE
<<<cher de tout les autos Francais, n'est-ce-pas? D'accord??>>>
ER
---touché!!!
Mes salutations distinguees,
Geoff Love, La Connection Anglais.
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