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Happy 4th of July from France. Okay, so you’re probably thinking “what the heck do the French have to celebrate on the 4th?”. Well, if you ask that question you truly don’t know the French who find a reason to celebrate every weekend- especially in the summer.
Anyway, the French need to warm up for their own French Revolution Day on the 14th. And just like they warmed up for that Revolution with ours, they find plenty of excuses to eat the gateau (cake) that Marie Antoinette commanded them to eat. See.
Actually, I attended a Yankee expat 4th of July celebration- not a word of French to be heard. Our hosts and most of the guests work at Cern, that giant underground physics particle place where they will try and keep from blowing up the world sometime this fall.
I think the particle reactor pretty much runs under my house so I’m hoping for one of those X-Men kind of deals. I’ll let you know how that works out.
Here are some of the people who were at our fete.
You might be wondering why anyone would want to spend the day with a bunch of genius physics types, especially since my wife Jean and I more nearly fit into the intellectual dolt category. Well, here’s why.
These people are so smart that unlike normal human beings at parties they don’t try and impress you with how smart they are. Plus they bring really good food and drink. They also know that they are incredibly boring except when they talk with one another since no one else can understand them. That works out well since they become really good listeners.
They also develop the capacity not to look incredibly bored with, your life story, description of the Bruce Springsteen concert you attended last weekend, or fact that you’re pretty sure you met them (or someone that looks just like them) when you were getting a citizen safety award in Philadelphia in 1998. Happy Fourth!.jpg)
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