Re: Farang Beggar in Silom Rd


n_cramerS...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> "Daniel" <daniel_h_laurent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > "Tchiowa" <tchiowa2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:1126960362.747547.209900@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Daniel wrote:
> > > "Tchiowa" <tchiowa2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > > news:1126936947.315191.182150@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > And thanks for that copper statue that turned green. :-)
> > ==================================
> > Well, our pleasure. Our pride also. Once upon a time, we had in France
> > politicians, more clever than Chirac, who sent you La Fayette and later
> > the Statue of Liberty. Well, IMHO, your politicians of those time were
> > also more clever than your current ones. No offense.
> >
> > For the record, the Statue, created by the sculptor Frédéric Auguste
> > Bartholdi with the technical help of Engineer Gustave Eiffel (The one who
> > teached US Engineers how to make steel bridges and steel-based
> > skyscrapers), is made of 31 tons of copper and 125 tons of steel. The
> > external copper plates are 2,37 mm thick (I wonder sometimes how so
> > precise that measurment could be in those times?) All metric units, for
> > sure, you retrograde user of foot, inch and other body parts :-)
> >
> > The original statue will be officially handed over to the USA in Paris on
> > July 4, 1884 (Special date, isn't it?). Then it will be dismantled in 350
> > pieces, loaded onboard the French frigate "Isère" and sent to New York.
> > The monument was inaugurated by President Groover Cleveland on 28 october
> > 1886, and will be classified as "Historical Monument" on 15 october 1924.
> >
> > The total construction cost is evaluated at 800.000 dollars 1884.
> > Fully paid back to France with GI's blood in 1918 and 1944.
> >
> > I am a loony lefty but have a bit of memory.
> >
> And you give credit where credit is due, as, I hope, do I! I honor the
> efforts of the Free French Resistance Forces and the French underground, as
> well. I am, nonetheless, proud to be a righty!

<snip>

"I am, nonetheless, proud to be a righty!"

Khun P' Nick:

And for me -- right IS RIGHT and left is WRONG :-)

Regards,

Noi

>
> Regardez vous, mon ami,
>
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