<p>Should happen in 24 hours or less. I’m trying to get my office to sponsor a “Paris Look-A-Like” event, and get Central Stores to supply those pens with big pink flowers on the end.</p>
<p>I can’t wait to celebrate a true American hero, who has seen the inside of the American penal system and survived to tell the tale! (Hope she makes some good money out of it, though she doesn’t need it. Maybe she’ll give it to the Fortune Society.)</p>
<p>Deja vu?</p>
<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_Paris_Burning%3F[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_Paris_Burning%3F</a></p>
<p>Is Paris Burning? is a 1966 Franco-American film dealing with the 1944 liberation of Paris by Allied forces.</p>
<p>The title is Hitler’s question to his chief of staff Alfred Jodl **on the eve of the liberation of Paris <a href=“August%2025”>/B</a>: the military governor of Paris, General Dietrich von Choltitz, had been ordered to destroy Paris rather than let it fall undamaged into the hands of the Allies, but General von Choltitz explicitly disobeyed that order.</p>
<p>PS A better question should be, “Can WE be liberated of all that hoopla about Paris?”</p>
<p>Sounds just like what is happening to Paris now. ;)</p>
<p>She will come out better than ever!</p>
<p>I have been duped again. First there was the thread that “Paris is free” and I thought, wow, going to Paris is free? So, I opened the thread and alas, it was about Paris HILTON. Now, I see “Liberation of Paris” and I’m thinking…“what’s in the news?? My kid is in Paris right now!” and again, duhhhhhhhh, it is about Paris HILTON. Hopefully by the next escapade of Paris Hilton’s to be reported as a thread title on CC, I will catch on! :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Mini is responsible for the line: “We’ll always have Paris.”</p>
<p>I don’t think folks fully appreciate the extent of her contribution. She began with so little to offer. She could have gone off and lived in granddad’s hotels for the rest of her life, and none of us would know anything about her (rather like some of Warren Buffett’s kids.) Instead she has given back to her community, and educated us all about the impacts of the disabilities that come with being someone of her pecuniary background. She has been open and honest in sharing her likes and dislikes, and enhanced our understanding greatly.</p>
<p>Probably not enough for a Nobel Prize…yet.</p>
<p>Share the luv! ;)</p>
<p>No, Darfur is burning, Baghdad is burning, Zimbabwe is about to melt down, but the media gives us Paris Hilton as entertainment and distraction–and we lap it up.</p>
<p>Eh, if they gave us the other ones, folks would complain about the biased media laying it on the government. </p>
<p>Let’s be clear about our priorities.</p>
<p>This quote is in reference to the plight of poor klugedaughter, but it could just as easily pertain to the Plight of Paris:</p>
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<p>If Paris is famous for partying, why should we believe she can do anything else? </p>
<p>In another thread, I said: </p>
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<p>referring, obviously, to the plight of girls who are judged on their looks during the vulnerable adolescent years. </p>
<p>But Paris probably had that problem too. Her problem now is partying too hard in a country that finds her every action <em>fascinating.</em></p>