Oh - yeah, OK. Good one - kind of like Momento, The Bar. I speak about as much 
french as a wine bottle label. I still think you oughta go in, if you operate 
from a base of fear, though. Bottoms up! :-)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ <no_reply@> wrote:
> >
> > Kinda like when I see some vintage car on the road. 
> > I enjoy just looking at it. Don't have to get in.
> > 
> > If you operate from a dynamic of fear, you *must* 
> > visit the bar, imo. If not, who (the fuck) cares, 
> > right?
> 
> Lighten up, Jimbo. My comment was a joke, albeit
> a bilingual one and possibly not very accessible.
> "Oublier" = to forget, and an "oubliette" was an 
> old type of prison in which they threw people to 
> be forgotten.
> 
> I was just having fun trying to imagine a bar in
> which every time you went there you had a great
> time, but afterwards you could never remember 
> going there, so for all you know it could be the
> same great time over and over again. :-)
> 
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote:
> > >
> > > In my new 'hood in Paris there is a bar called Le 
> > > caveau des Oubliettes. Every time I walk past it, 
> > > I think, "Wow. That place looks *fascinating*. I 
> > > should definitely stop and have a drink in there."
> > > 
> > > Strangely enough, however, I cannot find any memory 
> > > of ever having followed up on this thought, and no 
> > > memory of having been in the place at all.
> > > 
> > > Is that bad?
> > > 
> > > :-)
> > >
> >
>


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