On Nov 10, 2006, at 10:03 AM, Carl Remick wrote:
>> Eh? Is France going to shoot down an Israeli plane? Fat chance.
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> [Apparently that chance has slimmed down:]
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> French troops almost fired at Israel jets: minister
As the landlord of John Mage's building said back in the 1980s (as quoted in the Village Voice), after a chunk of ceiling fell and almost hit a tenant's infant daughter: "Almost doesn't count."
Doug