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-----Original Message----- From: Adam Phillip Churvis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 12:49 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Argentina > Hey Todd! > why don't you run for president of Argentina. > They have had 5 in two weeks. Surely you have just as good a shot as anybody! I was President of Argentina eight days ago for half a day, and let me tell you, it was no picnic! There I was, minding my own business and trying to get a little shopping done (I just ADORE those little silver tea strainer spoon thingies!), when a bunch of people ran out into the streets yelling "El Presidente! El Presidente!" Not knowing any Spanish, I thought they were all going to the Presidente Hotel, which was where I was staying, so I ran over and yelled above the crowd my best approximation of what I thought was Spanish for "I'm going to the Presidente!" They all stopped yelling for a second, looked at me in my tourist's version of the local dress, and then threw their hats up in the air yelling like mad. They picked me up on their shoulders and carried me to the palace, chanting all the way: "El Presidente! El Presidente!" I just kept thinking to myself "Now THAT'S service!" Anyhoo, there I am in a great big palace, getting a sash put around my shoulders like it's a "one millionth guest" special prize or something, and a priest wearing a flak jacket grabs my hand and smacks it on a Bible, then rapidly spouts something in Spanish at me. Now to me, Spanish already sounds like a pretty fast kind of language, so I thought he was saying, "Please take this prize as a token of our gratitude..." or something like that. I say, "Huh?" and the priest crosses himself and runs out of the room while the others duck under the big desk. They take me onto a balcony to meet all the people like it's a sort of "Publisher's Clearinghouse" photo-op. One of the guys who carried me to the palace asks something in Spanish -- which again I just don't "comprende" -- and I'm trying to be an agreeable sort, so I just yell out the only real Spanish I know: "Si!" Well, suddenly the same people who carried me to the palace are now throwing vegetables and rocks at me! So I run back inside, quickly sign a couple of important-looking documents, grab my little tea strainers, and run as fast as I can to the airport. The only good thing about it all was that I was flown home on Argentina's version of Air Force One: a small yet comfortable Cessna trainer aircraft. So take my advice, folks, and stay away from Argentina until things cool down a little. Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer Productivity Enhancement, Inc. http://www.ColdFusionTraining.com E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 770-446-8866 ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
