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Nice to know there are still a few of you out there who can get the joke without the aid of emojis and smiley faces, because as everyone knows, Americans often have the best sense of humour of all (but not the driest, that's us).
If you claim to have to visited France, Italy, Ireland, the Med etc among others but never have seen poppies growing in the wild then maybe you should observe a bit more carefully- they are everywhere. Poppies are one of the national crops of Turkey... albeit the White Opium kind, but they have...
It is a field of Rapeseed flowers, cultivated for around the last 4,000 years in India, the last 2,000 years in China and Japan and used as fuel in lamps among other things since, in Europe for at least the last 900 years. Widely used as a lubricant in steam engines, the steam age in general and...
Nobody expects The Spanish Inquisition...
Their single chief weapon is surprise, fear, ruthless efficiency and a fanatical devotion to the pope.
So be careful out there.
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