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gobbeldy goob and others......

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Now I understand why the Irish talk a lot! After all - if it takes all that to say "Thank you", the mind boggles..... But - you can change all that - here and now.....! *********** Translation Translated Search Translator Toolkit Tools and Resources Translate text, webpages and documents Enter text or a webpage URL, or  upload a document . Translate from: Irish English German — Detect language — Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Belarusian Bulgarian Catalan Chinese Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician German Greek Haitian Creole ALPHA Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Korean Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Maltese Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish Thai Turkish Ukrainian Vietnamese Welsh Yiddish Translate into: English French — Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Belarusian Bulgarian Catalan Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Tradi...

Diable Vauvert.....

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http://www.canalacademie.com/ida3743-Aller-au-diable-vauvert.html If you go to the above link, you can read, in French, all about the "Devil Vauvert" - a French expression meaning roughly "to send someone to an unpleasant or almost inaccessible place" - like "go to hell" in English! I have another interpretation - The older established families here in Vauvert are so corked-up, inter related,  unapproachable that it is indeed a penalty to be sent here - if you're looking for any form of social life! On the other hand, the link (in French) also talks about: "Il croit savoir que le diable Vauvert était « un monstre vert avec une grande barbe blanche, moitié homme et moitié serpent, armé d’une grosse massue, et qui semblait toujours prêt à s’élancer la nuit sur les passants." (ENGLISH: He understood that the Vauvert Devil was a green monster with a large white beard, half man - half snake, always ready to pounce upon passers-bye in th...

There are a lot of things that one do...

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There are a lot of things that one doesn't know, after all one can't know everything, I mean - I'm still trying to find out how to type the symbol "@" with this new fangled keyboard that shows 4 possibilities on 1 key!  I can't figure it out, but "@" is rather important after all! On top of all that, I can't figure out just how long this battery will actually work, Mind you, I can't figure out how to get the same thing to go on the "wireless" to surf, and it doesn't look like I'm going to learn very quickly either....unless someone out there has the answers - in which case, let me know....! Seems to me that just as quickly one learns one thing, a dozen new ones' come up! When does the learning period finish, and the fun period start? When will I be able to publish this warning message truthfully.........? Sure - having 2 if not 3 different systems (Windows/Linux/pocket PC core systems) doesn...

At your service-a page full of links useful and otherwise!

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Here's a page I did a longish time ago, but it's still relatively actual and could give you some ideas! The original page and lots of other articles on all sorts of things you can find here: http://sites.google.com/site/ianwmitchellswebsite/general-links-page At your Service, mrlemarquis (iwmpop) ****************** "iwmpop" - (mr.le marquis du Galipot)   Search this site   Navigation GENERAL LINKS PAGE - all links have been tested and are working as at 19 May 2009, but links can get broken, so if you notice one which doesn't work, I would appreciate the information...Good and Safe Surfing..! Apart from the links you see on the left, there are many others! Go to "Sitemap" for older items.Or go directly to the "GENERAL LINKS PAGE" for a complete directory. EUROPE - "The Dutchman-woman!" Europe-"The Englishman" Europe-"The Frenc...