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Club Arnage / Help / Re:TGV to Le Mans
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on: December 04, 2003, 11:20:10 pm
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Toad I could pick you up from Fretun - Calais TGV , or LM - run you to LM and back, plus do the shopping etc, introduce you to "interesting people" etc, etc minimal fee - just email me kpylaws@aol.com
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Club Arnage / General Discussion / Re:Hidden Lobsters
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on: December 04, 2003, 05:31:59 pm
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Well, I love seafood, and it's a lovely image. But, crickey! a quick Google using her name led me to a well-built African having congress with a cow! BTW I see two lobsters.
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Club Arnage / General Discussion / Re:Armistice Day
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on: November 11, 2003, 03:07:21 pm
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The pilot (all of 22 years old)'s grave bears the inscription
Oh for the touch of a vanished hand, and the sound of a voice that is still!
How can I ignore that?
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Club Arnage / General Discussion / Re:1000 Km @ Le Mans
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on: November 11, 2003, 02:56:33 pm
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Andy OK I'll admit to Leslie "Left hand down a bit". A lark yup? Ref the crack - an Irish expression for a good time out, and not the wet bits you may be thinking of. A bientot !!
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Club Arnage / General Discussion / Re:Armistice Day
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on: November 11, 2003, 01:05:12 pm
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Indeed. ![Cry](http://www.clubarnage.com/forum/Smileys/classic/cry.gif) I have been to visit our local war grave - two lads of 19 and 22 killed in a Lancaster in July 1944. Left flowers for them as I do each year on 11/11 and on the anniversary of their death. We must not forget them.
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Club Arnage / General Discussion / Re:1000 Km @ Le Mans
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on: November 11, 2003, 12:16:02 am
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And on the social side...
kpy and I ended up in a piano bar eating oysters at 3 am, and chatting with two local couples who rather took the to Terry Thomas style which kpy has.
Terry Thomas indeed !! Just 'cause I've a moustache and talk proper ..... Those French guys were really kind and payed our tab in full ! As for the Bar a Vin - really amazing wines and for around 20 quid a head for masses of it, 11 bottles for our little group, plus 3 courses of food (the smelly stuff we were advised to eat last was Affidelice au Chablis) - just amazing value. Just a tiny bit cramped. A great crack and the racing was fun too. Heres to our next meeting.
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Club Arnage / General Discussion / Re:Speed traps A16 Calais to Boulogne
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on: November 01, 2003, 03:37:22 pm
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There is a whole new campaign to stop speeding in France. A new generation of mobile traps is already operating (one was on the A28 between Abbeville and Rouen on Tuesday) with reception committees stategically placed just out of sight. A nationwide network of fixed cameras was launched in October, and will be enlarged. Random alcohol tests are springing up in rural locations at very odd times of day - 5.30pm for instance. Fines have increased at least fourfold in the last year, according to a French friend I was talking to last night, as he explained why he won't drive very far to a restaurant these days. Fatal accidents are still far too common in France (four people were killed in three separate accidents near my little neck of the woods last week) and the government seem determined to make speeding and drink driving too expensive for the average guy. This is not a sermon, just plain fact.
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Club Arnage / So You Think You Know About Le Mans / Re:Female driver...
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on: October 28, 2003, 04:31:22 pm
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There were two, in 1930: Mme Marguerite Mareuse, and Mme Odette Siko. I think Mme Mareuse started the race - it was her own car!
They shared a Bugatti T40, and came 7th, covering 2607.661 km, against the winning Barnato/Kidston Bently Speed Six ("Old Nunber One)'s 2930.663km.
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Club Arnage / So You Think You Know About Le Mans / Re:Tour de France
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on: October 25, 2003, 08:48:00 pm
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A little confusion here. Spa-Francorchamps was used in the 2003 Tour de France - that's the Tour de France Auto, for (historic) cars. The Tour de France for cycling does not use circuits, with the exception of the final Sunday, when a circuit is used, once the competitors have arrived in Paris.
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