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Offline Skandery

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I'm off to Africa
« on: July 11, 2008, 08:54:50 PM »
I'll be gone for the next month re-uniting with my long lost extended family in Tunis, Tunisia.  

Just look near the Mediterranean for any of you Americans that happens to know where a globe is.  ;)  Don't know what the internet access will be like, so I figure I'd drop a line.  See you all on the flip side.  (<-- did I sound as cool as the Italian guy in Boondock Saints?)







. . . and no, contrary to what some may think, Reality has not run me off.  











WayOutWest did!! 8)
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Re: I'm off to Africa
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2008, 09:03:43 PM »
I'm assuming cool in boondock saints is realtive to the rest of the cast of boondock saints only?
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Re: I'm off to Africa
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2008, 09:09:05 PM »
Take some photos and enjoy yourself Skand!
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Re: I'm off to Africa
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2008, 09:30:01 PM »
Based on commercials I've seen they have mosquitos shaped just like people down there...careful
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Re: I'm off to Africa
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2008, 10:45:06 AM »
If...rather, when....you visit Carthage, be sure to take some pictures of the ancient harbor. I would love to see how it looks today.
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Re: I'm off to Africa
« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2008, 05:35:26 PM »
Quote from: JoMal on July 14, 2008, 10:45:06 AM
If...rather, when....you visit Carthage, be sure to take some pictures of the ancient harbor. I would love to see how it looks today.

Trust me, it looks a lot different from when you helped build it.
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Re: I'm off to Africa
« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2008, 06:12:32 PM »
Take care of yourself Skandery, they still have Pirates there!

Definitely at least as cool as the Italian in Boondock Saints.

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Re: I'm off to Africa
« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2008, 06:35:58 PM »
Dread Pirates?
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Re: I'm off to Africa
« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2008, 07:48:24 PM »
Quote from: jemagee on July 14, 2008, 06:35:58 PM
Dread Pirates?

So are you Princess Buttercup?
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Re: I'm off to Africa
« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2008, 07:54:10 PM »
Anybody want a peanut?
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Re: I'm off to Africa
« Reply #10 on: July 15, 2008, 07:09:51 PM »
He's headed to the Barbary coast.  You must know the Marines song, "From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.  Tripoli is in Lybia on the Mediterranean Sea, adjacent to Tunisia.  The marines fought a great battle there to stop the Pirates from stealing American merchant cargo.
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Re: I'm off to Africa
« Reply #11 on: July 16, 2008, 11:19:38 AM »
Quote from: WayOutWest on July 14, 2008, 05:35:26 PM
Quote from: JoMal on July 14, 2008, 10:45:06 AM
If...rather, when....you visit Carthage, be sure to take some pictures of the ancient harbor. I would love to see how it looks today.

Trust me, it looks a lot different from when you helped build it.

Jealous?
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Re: I'm off to Africa
« Reply #12 on: July 16, 2008, 12:05:50 PM »
Quote from: JoMal on July 16, 2008, 11:19:38 AM
Quote from: WayOutWest on July 14, 2008, 05:35:26 PM
Quote from: JoMal on July 14, 2008, 10:45:06 AM
If...rather, when....you visit Carthage, be sure to take some pictures of the ancient harbor. I would love to see how it looks today.

Trust me, it looks a lot different from when you helped build it.

Jealous?

Jealous of your ability to reach the age of a Sequoia?  Kinda.  I do think you are a coward for abandoning your post at the battle of "The 300".
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Re: I'm off to Africa
« Reply #13 on: July 16, 2008, 12:35:13 PM »
Quote from: WayOutWest on July 16, 2008, 12:05:50 PM
Quote from: JoMal on July 16, 2008, 11:19:38 AM
Quote from: WayOutWest on July 14, 2008, 05:35:26 PM
Quote from: JoMal on July 14, 2008, 10:45:06 AM
If...rather, when....you visit Carthage, be sure to take some pictures of the ancient harbor. I would love to see how it looks today.

Trust me, it looks a lot different from when you helped build it.

Jealous?

Jealous of your ability to reach the age of a Sequoia?  Kinda.  I do think you are a coward for abandoning your post at the battle of "The 300".

It was a nature call. At my age, you just can't always time those things to accommodate the invasion of hoards of Persians. At least I left them something to think about as they ran through my pals.
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Re: I'm off to Africa
« Reply #14 on: August 10, 2008, 09:30:36 PM »
I'm back . . . and I think I need a vacation!!

Delayed in Tunis, Cancelled and delayed overnight in Paris, and almost delayed in Atlanta before we were delayed on the taxiway of St. Louis.  Man, I Love Delta!!  >:(

JoMal, sadly I didn't have the time to see the ruins in Carthage or the ancient harbor.  Though I did see the 3rd largest Ancient Coliseum in the World and largest in Africa in El Jem, Tunisia.  I'll try to post a good photo.  Its seriously right out of Gladiator.

The family and the old homeland was great, though.
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