Comments on: …Only South Americans? http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/05/only_south_amer.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:51:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: ninme http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/05/only_south_amer.html#comment-6202 ninme Fri, 02 Jun 2006 22:54:53 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/05/30/only_south_americans.html#comment-6202 <p>As much as I love and respect Sr Valdez, I can't drink Colombian coffee. It makes me feel like someone's sitting on my chest. Which, according to PSAs from the early nineties, is a bad thing.</p> As much as I love and respect Sr Valdez, I can’t drink Colombian coffee. It makes me feel like someone’s sitting on my chest. Which, according to PSAs from the early nineties, is a bad thing.

]]> By: RC2 http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/05/only_south_amer.html#comment-6201 RC2 Fri, 02 Jun 2006 22:11:15 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/05/30/only_south_americans.html#comment-6201 <p>It's "rich Colombian coffee." Just doesn't sound right with "Cuban."</p> It’s “rich Colombian coffee.” Just doesn’t sound right with “Cuban.”

]]> By: ninme http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/05/only_south_amer.html#comment-6200 ninme Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:38:18 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/05/30/only_south_americans.html#comment-6200 <p>Ooh better lay low.</p> Ooh better lay low.

]]> By: HalfEmpty http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/05/only_south_amer.html#comment-6199 HalfEmpty Fri, 02 Jun 2006 13:52:19 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/05/30/only_south_americans.html#comment-6199 <p>I thought Juan Valdez was a Cuban.</p> I thought Juan Valdez was a Cuban.

]]> By: ninme http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/05/only_south_amer.html#comment-6198 ninme Fri, 02 Jun 2006 04:06:50 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/05/30/only_south_americans.html#comment-6198 <p>I heard that too! Or, specifically, I wrote that last comment, went into the other room to watch Brit Hume (at 6, 3) and saw on the crawl that Juan Valdez had retired after 37 years and that they would be searching for a replacement soon. I almost ran in here to provide an update but then was rather uncertain to what degree of sorrowfully respectful I should aim for.</p> I heard that too! Or, specifically, I wrote that last comment, went into the other room to watch Brit Hume (at 6, 3) and saw on the crawl that Juan Valdez had retired after 37 years and that they would be searching for a replacement soon. I almost ran in here to provide an update but then was rather uncertain to what degree of sorrowfully respectful I should aim for.

]]> By: RC2 http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/05/only_south_amer.html#comment-6197 RC2 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 20:40:01 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/05/30/only_south_americans.html#comment-6197 <p>I no sooner wrote that you'd better not mess with Juan Valdez when I heard a report that they're searching for an actor to replace the guy who's always played him.</p> I no sooner wrote that you’d better not mess with Juan Valdez when I heard a report that they’re searching for an actor to replace the guy who’s always played him.

]]> By: ninme http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/05/only_south_amer.html#comment-6196 ninme Wed, 31 May 2006 21:54:18 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/05/30/only_south_americans.html#comment-6196 <p>Haha!</p> <p>Ah, the merengue... How I love it...</p> Haha!

Ah, the merengue… How I love it…

]]> By: RC2 http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/05/only_south_amer.html#comment-6195 RC2 Wed, 31 May 2006 19:50:00 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/05/30/only_south_americans.html#comment-6195 <p>I spent a grad-school summer at Notre Dame through the Pan American Institute for the Political Sciences. A few of us gringos shared classes with about 40 Colombians (and a sprinkling of Mexicans,Spaniards, Italians). Most fun summer of my life. They were serious students, but also notable for taking no coaxing whatsoever to break into the merengue (on a weekend outing to the beach, we stopped to let one car gas up, and everyone else spilled out to dance in the lot while we were waiting). Their national motto could be: "First, we must dance."</p> <p>Also, several of my lasting friendships from that summer were with people who live in Medellín. My friends are not at all sensitive to teasing about drug cartels, but you'd better not mess with Juan Valdez. They take their coffee very seriously.</p> I spent a grad-school summer at Notre Dame through the Pan American Institute for the Political Sciences. A few of us gringos shared classes with about 40 Colombians (and a sprinkling of Mexicans,Spaniards, Italians). Most fun summer of my life. They were serious students, but also notable for taking no coaxing whatsoever to break into the merengue (on a weekend outing to the beach, we stopped to let one car gas up, and everyone else spilled out to dance in the lot while we were waiting). Their national motto could be: “First, we must dance.”

Also, several of my lasting friendships from that summer were with people who live in Medellín. My friends are not at all sensitive to teasing about drug cartels, but you’d better not mess with Juan Valdez. They take their coffee very seriously.

]]> By: ninme http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/05/only_south_amer.html#comment-6194 ninme Wed, 31 May 2006 17:08:23 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/05/30/only_south_americans.html#comment-6194 <p>That is so bizarre... Lebanese? How long has this whole drugs "insurgency" been going on? Cuz, lovely though it might be, Colombia doesn't exactly sound like the sort of place one wants to relocate too, especially if one is relocating because one already might have a statistical probability of getting oneself blowed up. Then there's the volcanoes.</p> That is so bizarre… Lebanese? How long has this whole drugs “insurgency” been going on? Cuz, lovely though it might be, Colombia doesn’t exactly sound like the sort of place one wants to relocate too, especially if one is relocating because one already might have a statistical probability of getting oneself blowed up. Then there’s the volcanoes.

]]> By: Rueful Red http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/05/only_south_amer.html#comment-6193 Rueful Red Wed, 31 May 2006 12:21:45 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/05/30/only_south_americans.html#comment-6193 <p>Probably more to do with events in Lebanon than Colombia, one imagines.</p> Probably more to do with events in Lebanon than Colombia, one imagines.

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