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2013-12-30 Africa Subsaharan

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Posted by Fred 2013-12-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 I have to seriously refrain for not making half a dozen bad jokes involving Niger with one g and with two gs

Posted by JFM 2013-12-30 08:50|| 2013-12-30 08:50|| Front Page Top

#2 I have to seriously refrain...

Very wise, JFM. Different cultures have different rules.

Posted by trailing wife 2013-12-30 13:26|| 2013-12-30 13:26|| Front Page Top

#3 I have to seriously refrain...

It was a slow hanging curve ball, looked as big as a grapefruit.... Maybe JFM and I should just go sit in the Sink Trap before temptation becomes too much.

Posted by SteveS 2013-12-30 13:42|| 2013-12-30 13:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Gentlemen: If you have to say something, make it something constructive. Be aware that there are real people here, with real struggles. Niger's economy isn't much, education is almost non-existent, they have around 40,000 refugees from Boko Haram draining scant resources. The country is just beyond reach of warm currents that bring rain to its neighbors to the south. JFM might be able to tell us what infrastructure, if any, the French left behind 30-odd years ago. Isn't Niger part of the French Outre-mer?

Posted by mom 2013-12-30 16:19|| 2013-12-30 16:19|| Front Page Top

#5 t was a slow hanging curve ball, looked as big as a grapefruit... Then it dropped like a rock and went very left and almost stopped. I realized then why Phil Niekro should be in the Hall of Fame.

Posted by Shipman 2013-12-30 16:28|| 2013-12-30 16:28|| Front Page Top

#6 what infrastructure, if any, the French left behind 30-odd years ago.

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There's nothing left, it was all scooped up and taken to the scrap metal dump when the French left.

The'll all starve, and good riddance

Posted by Redneck JIm 2013-12-30 17:53|| 2013-12-30 17:53|| Front Page Top

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