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Post by somersdave on Jul 12, 2013 8:46:21 GMT -5
The death at 87 of the UK's best known (in the UK anyway) World traveler of modern times (before anyone went much further than a trip across the English Chanel) was just in the news and so, looking to remind myself of him, I came across this programme he made in '69 about Haiti. It is quite entertaining (IMO) and contains some real 'gems' - like how Papa Doc figured out that it was safest (for him) to have everyone armed - except the army (that would save the US taxpayer some money!). It could be taken as a warning to the crumbling Western World what happens when corruption takes over. Apparently Papa Doc started as a country doctor - does anyone know of any politically motivated docs, living in the country? Warning contains some partial nakedness: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO_fLp_j-wQand just to reinforce Alan's popularity, here is a dedicated Monty Python piece: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFp3H8dnJps
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Post by Zorg51 on Jul 12, 2013 14:14:43 GMT -5
Snohomish County?
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Post by firecracker on Jul 12, 2013 16:43:16 GMT -5
Snohomish County? HUH? what is this? Have watched 1/2 of the Haiti video so far. I don't know what to make of it. Unbelievable that so many people could submit to this guy. Of course, who am I to talk? Here, they are submitting to Mr. Hope and Change. He promised change. And by God, he's delivering it! No hope and Change so unbelievable it makes my head spin!
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Post by somersdave on Jul 13, 2013 5:11:56 GMT -5
by the power of google, S. County: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snohomish,_Washington still a bit confused (as usual) - could be the antiquity of both places but my initial thought was of snobbishness (some word similarity) of which Alan might be suspected but it was a different, more formal time. He seemed a pretty 'decent chap' and couldn't see him being involved in molesting children nor herding people into gas chambers (but then apparently decent ex premier Ted Heath of the same era has some big questions hanging over him - which might explain his (enforced) enthusiasm for a united Europe). Rude anagram - maybe not Submitting to Papa Doc - it's scary what people will incrementally accept. It seems only people at the bottom of the pile (who probably get most from the state- perhaps unfair in these days of insider, corporate welfare) are willing to get out and cause trouble when they are stirred up. (certainly happened here in the UK, when Maggie Thatcher decided that local taxes should be down to the adults rather than property)
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Post by firecracker on Jul 13, 2013 11:31:03 GMT -5
Okay, still being really dense here. What does Snohomish County Washington State have to do with Papa Doc? or anything on this thread?
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Post by ZE2YJBY on Jul 13, 2013 16:37:07 GMT -5
Snohomish County? The Dave Somers that lives here, obviously wrong.
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