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Too bad you're not coming Ted. You're probably the only one who could tell us who all these dead people were and what they accomplished.;)

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP on Thu Sep 3rd, 2009 at 02:02:06 PM EST
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You mean you're not going to have them speak to us from the grave, LEP?
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Sep 3rd, 2009 at 02:04:52 PM EST
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"Hello, my name is Frederick Chopin. I live in grave number 20, division 11 of Pere Lachaise cemetary. I was born in 1810  in Poland and died in Paris in 1849 and I wrote music for a living......."

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP on Thu Sep 3rd, 2009 at 03:06:33 PM EST
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"Ya don't say, Fred? Write any good tunes? My brother-in-law, he plays the ukelele..."
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Sep 3rd, 2009 at 03:19:47 PM EST
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I'm sure afew will do that - I thought Morrison was a UK supermarket chain :-)

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Fri Sep 4th, 2009 at 07:08:29 PM EST
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I thought it was a place where we went to get stoned at night. What else is it?
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sat Sep 5th, 2009 at 01:37:03 AM EST
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You used to go to the supermarket to get stoned at night??

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Sat Sep 5th, 2009 at 12:25:03 PM EST
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Oh, man, I'm going to post Ginsberg's A Supermarket In California again...

No, valiantly resist temptation.

When the supermarkets were shut, the Père Lachaise was "open".

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sat Sep 5th, 2009 at 12:40:40 PM EST
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