tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226876762714358061.post4577815484388591566..comments2023-08-14T10:23:04.082-04:00Comments on My Green vermont: Que Viva Espana!!!Eulalia Benejam Cobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13247079657985430691noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226876762714358061.post-75831605459838952772010-07-13T10:23:42.927-04:002010-07-13T10:23:42.927-04:00It was a great game and I actually wanted both tea...It was a great game and I actually wanted both teams to win which they did in a way of course. Spain did outplay NL and they are very good: they remind me of little fast terriers.mrbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06223571140075151110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226876762714358061.post-9804388808653949982010-07-12T12:51:23.270-04:002010-07-12T12:51:23.270-04:00Dona, if I had known, I would have sent you olives...Dona, if I had known, I would have sent you olives.<br /><br />Elizabeth, I suspect that "foreignness" is more palatable in writing. And some people--obviously those with livelier minds--can tolerate it better than others.<br /><br />Indigo, isn't it great that somebody still takes Western Civ in college? (I assume that's where your cultured friend got the information.)Eulalia Benejam Cobbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247079657985430691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226876762714358061.post-53426740192983194142010-07-12T12:30:32.569-04:002010-07-12T12:30:32.569-04:00I have a 19-year-old friend who noted Spain's ...I have a 19-year-old friend who noted Spain's domination of the Netherlands.<br /><br />Oh, what a lovely, multileveled, multicultural post!Indigo Buntinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11387698096732697805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226876762714358061.post-30856397786021748172010-07-12T09:51:21.918-04:002010-07-12T09:51:21.918-04:00Although you and Bridget are completely right abou...Although you and Bridget are completely right about the basis of human rapport (put me in the category of still learning that one with "what you do" in the place of "where you are from")I must add that I find where <i>you</i> are from quite fascinating: A large part of what makes your blog - and indeed your company- so compelling is the way in which you weave the scents, music, taste and smell of the Old World into the fabric of the present.Elizabethhttp://www.elizabethtorak.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226876762714358061.post-54446427537943020742010-07-12T08:19:35.679-04:002010-07-12T08:19:35.679-04:00Hmm, I was pulling for Holland to win simply becau...Hmm, I was pulling for Holland to win simply because someone on my twitter and facebook friends lists is from the Netherlands -- and because she sent me some mustard. I'd forgotten you were from Spain. Dang -- I could have been cheering for the winning team!<br /><br />Congratulations to your team.Donahttp://dponline.org/weblognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226876762714358061.post-81533233453529009392010-07-12T07:49:08.745-04:002010-07-12T07:49:08.745-04:00Elizabeth, what a relief to learn from the link yo...Elizabeth, what a relief to learn from the link you gave that somebody else thought about the historical meaning of all that orange.<br /><br />Bridgett, it took me a long time, too. But it made my life much easier once I did.Eulalia Benejam Cobbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247079657985430691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226876762714358061.post-66149565579875902762010-07-12T07:00:41.555-04:002010-07-12T07:00:41.555-04:00"I concluded that people care less about wher..."I concluded that people care less about where you come from than about your ability to share in their daily concerns"<br /><br />This is very, very astute. It took me a long time to figure this out.<br /><br />And, I suppose, congratulations!Bridgetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12843150280542615265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226876762714358061.post-14862635563476881192010-07-11T23:06:56.457-04:002010-07-11T23:06:56.457-04:00Wow. Thank God I didn't follow through on Tom&...Wow. Thank God I didn't follow through on Tom's whimsical idea of having you and our Dutch neighbor over to watch the game (actually she was still away)- obviously it couldda gotten ugly;)<br /><br />Apparently not everybody has forgotten the history between Spain and the Netherlands...http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/the-revenge-of-felipe-ii/ <br /><br />Congratulations!Elizabethhttp://www.elizabethtorak.comnoreply@blogger.com