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pinto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 02:54 PM
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant a family member owned. Can I be Secretary of State?
I doubt it. Not in a Democratic administration.

It was in the DC suburbs, though. Doesn't that lend my resume some gravitas?

:eyes:

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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 02:55 PM
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1. Hey, if you stayed in a Holiday Inn that should clinch the deal! nt
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 02:55 PM
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2. You were right next to embassies! And they're foreign soil! What experience!!!!
:rofl:
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pinto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 03:05 PM
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8. And I drove by the Pentagon *once a week*.
I was in the loop.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 03:07 PM
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9. ZOMG - National Security experience!!!!
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ingac70 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 02:58 PM
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3. Change parties..
I'm sure Repukes will find your resume adequate.

:+
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Lost-in-FL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 03:01 PM
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4. That's great foreign affairs experience for the GOP. You might be considered...
for an ambassador post.
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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 03:02 PM
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5. As someone who's had a croissant or two
I am eminently qualified to be ambassador to France.

Oh wine. I like wine. And cheese too.

And I know most of the words to Alouette... well a few of them actually.
Truth is the only word I'm really sure of is Alouette.
But still... that's a lot of experience right there.



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pinto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 03:09 PM
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11. Hey. You've got my vote. I'll put in a good word. Nix on the French talk though.
These are times that call on us all to forego diplomacy.
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Cerridwen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 03:12 PM
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13. I googled for the lyrics - thank you for the ear worm.
You're gonna hate the wiki. Ruined! Another childhood song. *sigh* You can kick me later. Right now I'm sharing my misery. LOL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alouette_(song)

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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 03:41 PM
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20. Oh my goodness.. "I shall pluck you" !!!???
Edited on Sun Aug-31-08 03:43 PM by C_U_L8R
That's ghastly !!!!!! And I never knew. Ack !

Well fortunately there'll always be nice wholesome songs like "Ring Around the Rosie"
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Cerridwen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 03:47 PM
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22. Er, don't kill me, k?
"Ring Around the Rosie" was bubonic plague - maybe.

Plague interpretation

Many have associated the poem with the Great Plague of London in 1665, or with earlier outbreaks of bubonic plague in England. Interpreters of the rhyme before the second world war make no mention of this;<16> by 1951, however, it seems to have become well established as an explanation for the form of the rhyme that had become standard in Britain. Peter and Iona Opie remark<17>: ‘The invariable sneezing and falling down in modern English versions have given would-be origin finders the opportunity to say that the rhyme dates back to the Great Plague. A rosy rash, they allege, was a symptom of the plague, posies of herbs were carried as protection, sneezing was a final fatal symptom , and “all fall down” was exactly what happened.’<18> Variations of the same theory allow it to be applied to the American version of the rhyme and to medieval plagues.<19> In its various forms, the interpretation has entered into popular culture and has been used elsewhere to make oblique reference to the plague.<20> (For 'hidden meaning' in other nursery rhymes see Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary and Cock Robin.)


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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 03:54 PM
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23. wink
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Cerridwen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 04:02 PM
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25. Whew! Some days I know, other days I need a wink. :D n/t
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 03:03 PM
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6. Chinese food? Close enough. We had someone involved
with horses in charge of FEMA.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 03:03 PM
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7. I've been to London twice, so i'm fully prepared to be the Ambassador to.
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pinto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 03:11 PM
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12. That's in England, right?
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 05:10 PM
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27. you bet, i've also been to Prague so i can be the special envoy to Czechoslovakia!
That's near the USSR right?


:rofl:
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 03:33 PM
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19. I'll take French Polynesia!!! Yes!!
Tahiti, here I come, again!

:rofl:

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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 04:00 PM
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24. I'll be Ambassador to Mexico
I've been to Tijuana and negotiated a deal on a leather purse and a sombrero for my little brother. So I've been on the PTA and have foreign policy experience. I'm definitely good to go.
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 03:08 PM
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10. All of my ancestors until my dad were farmers. My dad designed farm machinery.
I think I'd make a great Secretary of Agriculture! God knows I'm qualified.
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 03:18 PM
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14. You'd be overqualified if it was right next door to an Italian restaurant.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 03:18 PM
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15. Some Chinese restaurants serve more people in a year than live in all of Alaska.
:rofl:
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pinto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 03:23 PM
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17. LOL. Not ours. We had more of a Wasilla sized clientelle. And a deficit problem.
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snacker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 03:22 PM
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16. According to Republican standards...
Edited on Sun Aug-31-08 03:23 PM by snacker
you sound qualified to me! Wait, do you have any other very important considerations, like were you ever a point guard on a high school basketball team or anything?
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Journeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 03:27 PM
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18. Measured against the present SoS, you're overqualified. . .
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 03:43 PM
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21. MMMMMmmmm mmm Sure sure sure.
If you run on the pug ticket!
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Chovexani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-31-08 04:06 PM
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26. You shoulda came in the Lounge the other day
We had a whole thread on that. :D
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