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water rat
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Truth be told, my own grandpa (on my mum's side) was a Lebanese grocer. All right, a huckster. He sold produce from the back of a truck, and he too was a "great guy". Salt of the earth, these Lebanese merchant men... Grandpa was as strong as a bull, could win at arm wrestling with any man well into his seventies, and claimed he had drunk nothing but whiskey and beer for the last 40 years of his life (died at 90 of dehydration - question: what took so long?)
He called himself a Syrian, and he was right because when he emigrated in the early 1900s the whole Levant was just a part of Europe's sickest man - The Ottoman Empire. However his children and their 'Ayrab' friends (they were all related somehow) referred to themselves as Lebanese because grandpa was from some rural valley just outside of Beirut. The man was a camel herder in his youth, and his life could not have been much different from what life was like in the Biblical era. When I knew him he certainly looked old enough to have met an apostle or two personally, and yes, he was Christian, not Muslim.
But if you talked to him about going to Lebanon he was totally bewildered. It's kind of like when Muhammad Ali had his 'rumble in the jungle' with George Foreman in what was then called Zaire. The champ said about Africa:
"Sure glad my great grand daddy got out of there!" |
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esl_prof
Joined: 30 Nov 2013
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Location: peyi kote solèy frèt
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 9:04 pm Post subject: Re: Lebanon |
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| nomad soul wrote: |
| Nah. Suph uses cheap crayons. |
Bummer! You gotta love his knack for color coordination, though. |
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Tazz
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Location: Jakarta
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| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 7:44 am Post subject: |
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| What a thread....I never realized that hashish was so widely available/ smoked in the gulf! |
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Cruiser
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| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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I love the guy. Every time I walk into his shop it's like, "HELLO!!"
"Uh, hi..."
"HELLO, HELLO!"
"Are you talking to me, or everybody in Alberta?"
"HOW MANY FALAFAL YOU WANT?!"
"I'll take a dozen if you'LL stop shouting at me.."
"OK ONE DOZEN..."
A friend of mine has a Lebanese father. When he got into a fight with this brother he faked a heart attack. Faked it so well they called 9-1-1. When the paramedics arrived he said,"No ambulance, I fine," and just went on with his day. How can you not love guys like these? |
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Cruiser
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| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Tazz wrote: |
| What a thread....I never realized that hashish was so widely available/ smoked in the gulf! |
You're going to the wrong parties... |
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Cruiser
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| scot47 wrote: |
| Quite close to a place called Megido, better known in the West as "Armageddon". |
Can you send me the brochure?
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Cruiser
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| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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| nomad soul wrote: |
Seriously, a quick check on the Internet will show you where Lebanon is located.
Regardless, there rarely are ads for EFL teachers from abroad because the country produces its own capable teachers. |
Seriously...? |
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johnslat
Joined: 21 Jan 2003
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Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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johnslat
Joined: 21 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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Dear Cruiser,
When you've seen some of the stuff that SERIOUSLY gets posted on here, I can't fault anyone for thinking you really meant it. 
Regards,
John |
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