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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 16, 2020 17:18:36 GMT
I have a good electric clipper with all of the attachments, but I don't dare do the back of my head all by myself. I'll hire you for a session the next time you come to Paris.
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Post by mich64 on Oct 16, 2020 19:05:26 GMT
I cut Mr.Tods hair this morning. It is quite manageable with a barbers clippers. Started on No.3 all over then went for a two on the sides finally taking the comb part off and neatened up the neck and around the ears. I'm getting quite good as its his third haircut with Salon Free- bee! I don't know if he will ever go back to paying the high price hairdressers/barbers charge for around 10minute cut. I take much longer but then I'm a perfectionist…. I cut Mr.Tods hair this morning. It is quite manageable with a barbers clippers. Started on No.3 all over then went for a two on the sides finally taking the comb part off and neatened up the neck and around the ears. I'm getting quite good as its his third haircut with Salon Free- bee! I don't know if he will ever go back to paying the high price hairdressers/barbers charge for around 10minute cut. I take much longer but then I'm a perfectionist…. Excellent Tod!
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Post by Kimby on Oct 17, 2020 3:41:25 GMT
I’ve been cutting Mr. Kimby’s hair since 1979, but just recently added beard trimming to my repertoire as he has grown a COVID beard.
(I tell him he looks like George Clooney with his beard.)
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Post by tod2 on Oct 17, 2020 13:00:01 GMT
I'll hire you for a session the next time you come to Paris. I would L O V E that Kerouac! In the meantime I will be practising my new skill every 6 weeks or so.
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Post by lugg on Oct 17, 2020 19:07:41 GMT
My hair is a mess .. sorry I know this is good news thread but I have none about my hair.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 19, 2020 16:30:00 GMT
I have put this particular bit of good news in the eBook thread. But since I suspect many of you never look at that thread, here it is again: The New York Review of Books is dropping its paywall through the election. This includes the current issue and the archives. www.nybooks.com/
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Post by lagatta on Oct 19, 2020 17:39:44 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 19, 2020 18:22:18 GMT
That is wonderful that Van Damme managed to save the live of the little honey, but this is yet another story that points up how breeding and selling pets can be a bad thing. Raya is obviously the "right" kind of chihuahua, the kind that gets bred because there are always willing buyers. And because people often acquire animals for all the wrong reasons, chihuahuas are one of the most abandoned breeds. www.famouschihuahua.com/chihuahua-rescue-organizations/
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Post by lagatta on Oct 19, 2020 18:52:29 GMT
Yes, I heartily agree. Only mutts for me. Still, I'm glad he saved that baby.
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Post by casimira on Dec 2, 2020 15:46:40 GMT
The citizens of NOLA (well, most of them, some are disgruntled people to begin with over this whole topic and won't change so f em.) got some really good news yesterday.
Beginning the first week of 2021 several street names will be changed. Robert E. Lee Blvd. which runs for quite a few miles will be renamed Allen Toussaint Blvd.
There are many others that will be changed as well but I am elated to hear this particular one.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 2, 2020 17:34:48 GMT
Oh, yaaaay! You need to storm City Hall, as I'm sure you have some excellent suggestions for them. I say musicians' names for everything needing renaming! I'll be glad to make these suggestions as your proxy, so you don't get turned into an "escape goat".
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Post by whatagain on Dec 2, 2020 19:35:03 GMT
Ribert Lee was a genius militarily speaking. He was also labelled as traitor to he nation. Now it seems to me as if we would change names of Napoleon or napo's generals. But i wholeheratedly adhere to the name changing, esp in a country where basic racism has still to be addressed on a daily basis.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 2, 2020 19:48:47 GMT
There is nothing named "Napoléon" in Paris. The closest we get is a minor street called "rue Bonaparte."
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Post by casimira on Dec 2, 2020 20:24:20 GMT
(the quote button isn't working again...).
Anyway, with regard to the streets being renamed for musicians, one of the other major avenues or boulevards is going to be renamed after Mahalia Jackson. I'm waiting for an Ernie K. Doe or James Booker one to happen.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 2, 2020 20:29:25 GMT
I received my free box of chocolates from the city of Paris today. I felt like an imposter again as I observed how old the other recipients in the queue appeared to be.
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Post by casimira on Dec 4, 2020 3:36:19 GMT
Well, pray tell us Kerouac with whom the company you keep in receiving such a gift? I didn't realize you held such a lofty position with the Parisian elite.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 4, 2020 4:03:12 GMT
Speaking of New Orleans musicians, who can name this one?
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Post by casimira on Dec 4, 2020 4:09:49 GMT
Not a clue Bixa. Pray tell... I feel like I should know nd am embarrassed to say I don't know.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 4, 2020 4:23:37 GMT
Well, pray tell us Kerouac with whom the company you keep in receiving such a gift? I didn't realize you held such a lofty position with the Parisian elite. The city gives a big box of chocolates to every Parisian over the age of 65. You receive a letter around mid-Novermber with your date and time slot to pick it up.
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Post by casimira on Dec 4, 2020 4:33:50 GMT
WOW!!!! I m so impressed!!! Maybe I'll get a box of pralines from our lovely Mayor!
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 4, 2020 6:53:32 GMT
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Post by breeze on Dec 4, 2020 13:50:11 GMT
bixa, could that be Louis Prima?
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Post by patricklondon on Dec 4, 2020 14:09:01 GMT
The city gives a big box of chocolates to every Parisian over the age of 65. You receive a letter around mid-Novermber with your date and time slot to pick it up. People on retirement pension in the UK (and possibly people on some other benefits) get a one-off Winter Fuel Allowance of £200, paid direct into one's bank account. It goes back to a period when repeated cold winters and rapidly rising energy costs were causing concern about "fuel poverty", but no-one dares to try any sort of reform on it.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 4, 2020 14:35:49 GMT
Here there is a Christmas bonus for low income people, from 150 euros for a single person to 450 euros for a couple with 4 children. The current system started in 1998.
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Post by breeze on Dec 4, 2020 14:39:16 GMT
patrick, we heard a complaint from a British couple living permanently in Normandy that they had lost their fuel allowance after receiving it in France for years. The British government had set a new cutoff point. Mainland France was well above the cutoff, but the government included not just mainland France but all the warmer departments, so every Brit in France lost the fuel allowance.
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Post by casimira on Dec 4, 2020 16:11:42 GMT
bixa, could that be Louis Prima? I do believe you are correct with that Breeze. I should have known. You're so clever. I will put in a request for you to be an honorary New Orleanian as soon as time allows and City Hall gets their act together.
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Post by bjd on Dec 4, 2020 16:44:43 GMT
patrick, we heard a complaint from a British couple living permanently in Normandy that they had lost their fuel allowance after receiving it in France for years. The British government had set a new cutoff point. Mainland France was well above the cutoff, but the government included not just mainland France but all the warmer departments, so every Brit in France lost the fuel allowance. Why on earth should Brits living in France receive a British fuel bonus?
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Post by casimira on Dec 4, 2020 16:55:58 GMT
Consider yourselves lucky, we don't get any benefits like that here. No chocolates or fuel allowances. Man, that just isn't fair!
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 4, 2020 20:31:49 GMT
bixa, could that be Louis Prima? Breeze ~ I would not have guessed correcty, but you did! Good eye. The accent discussion has been moved to this thread, starting at #148.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Dec 4, 2020 21:37:04 GMT
The postman bought me a big parcel today. A designer/artist chum I used to work with sent me a huge bag stuffed with pieces of really groovy fabric...some of it stuff she designed but not all...I was so excited wasn't that nice of her?
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