It's 2am & I'm stuck in Lisbon Airport- Ask me anything

Guy_Montag

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Thu Dec-30-04 09:16 PM
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It's 2am & I'm stuck in Lisbon Airport- Ask me anything

or not - I don't care - I'm so bored I think my head might explode.

Only 6 hours 'til my next flight.

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Sannum

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Thu Dec-30-04 09:20 PM
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1. Anything open so you can eat or shop?

I know airports just have such a bounty of entertainment choices:crazy:

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Guy_Montag

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Thu Dec-30-04 09:24 PM
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5. There's a death burger outlet & a few vending machines...

thank god for overpriced wireless internet.

Just to try to get more sympathy - haven't been home for six weeks, won't be home for another six weeks & kissed my girlfriend goodbye this morning. Can you hear the violins yet?

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Sannum

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Thu Dec-30-04 09:44 PM
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13. Awww....

I'm sorry:7
And here's those violins you asked for:nopity: :nopity:

Good Luck:7

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LynzM

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Thu Dec-30-04 09:20 PM
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2. What were you doing in Lisbon?

How's the airport, as they go?

Have you had coffee yet?

Who's the most interesting person you've seen go by?

Did you bring reading material?

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Guy_Montag

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Thu Dec-30-04 09:27 PM
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6. I'm on my way from the Azores to Panama...

for work.

Not started on the coffee yet - been putting it off.

A rather strange, scruffy chap, who looked like he was eyeing up my laptop. Not that I'm paranoid. I'm sitting in a dark corner by the only power socket in the place.

Yes - the complete works of Saki.

Thanks

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hickman1937

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Thu Dec-30-04 09:20 PM
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3. Why?

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Longgrain

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Thu Dec-30-04 09:23 PM
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4. Have you met any Lisbonians?

:7

Could you send two of them my way...

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Guy_Montag

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Thu Dec-30-04 09:28 PM
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7. Not yet, but I'm hoping... n/t

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Amaya

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Thu Dec-30-04 09:29 PM
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8. Whatcha doin' there?

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Guy_Montag

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Thu Dec-30-04 09:30 PM
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10. I refer the right honourable member to the answer...

I gave some moments ago.

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brentspeak

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Thu Dec-30-04 09:29 PM
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9. Speaking of earthquakes and tsunamis

Edited on Thu Dec-30-04 09:30 PM by brentspeak

Lisbon was hit by a terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami in 1755. Killed 90,000 people. Are there monuments in the city that commerate that event, or the Marquis of Pompal, the prime minister who basically prevented the whole situation from completely spiralling out of control?

Bizarre trivia from the Lisbon earthquake: The survivors of the quake fled to the relative safety of the docks, where they witnessed the sea receding (as it always does prior to a tsunami). It revealed centuries of sunken ships and treasure. But twenty minutes later, the tsunami hit.

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Guy_Montag

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Thu Dec-30-04 09:32 PM
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11. Thanks for that warm, safe fluffy feeling you've just given me

not been out of the airport, just stuck here waiting for a flight at 9am.

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UmSamir

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Thu Dec-30-04 09:33 PM
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12. receding sea...

Makes me wonder if many of them were caught plundering like so many proverbial Egyptians in the Red Sea. :{

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HuckleB

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Thu Dec-30-04 09:52 PM
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19. Yes. There are monuments.

And it's interesting to see how the city was rebuilt. Incredibly efficiently at the time, though still more interesting than what we do today.

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hollywood926

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Thu Dec-30-04 09:46 PM
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14. why are you ina lesbian airport?

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Elidor

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Thu Dec-30-04 09:46 PM
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15. Have you seen 'The Terminal' yet?

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Guy_Montag

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Thu Dec-30-04 09:48 PM
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16. Ummm, no why?

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NightTrain

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Thu Dec-30-04 09:48 PM
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17. I didn't know the small town of Lisbon, Connecticut even had an airport!

You learn something new every day.

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HuckleB

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Thu Dec-30-04 09:50 PM
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18. Spent the night their once myself.

After a last evening on the town... Of course, I was with my wife, and we had a great talk with a couple from Germany. Our Portuguese sucked, and it still does. Well, I can read it, but I can't speak it, though I tried and tried. And I still love Portugal! What a wonderful country.

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intheflow

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Thu Dec-30-04 10:01 PM
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20. Are you one of those business people I always see in airports

typing away furiously on laptops?

It's cool to think some of those guys are cruising DU. :D

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Been Fishing

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Thu Dec-30-04 10:04 PM
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21. Please read my post

Edited on Thu Dec-30-04 10:07 PM by Been Fishing

General Discussion - Politics

War-Torn Marriages

Been Fishing

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1460580

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shesemsmom

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Thu Dec-30-04 10:10 PM
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22. Don't you believe that the world is going to hell in a hand basket

especially if you are stuck in an airport for 2 hours? I wish I was stuck in an airport right now. At least I'd be going somewhere

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Guy_Montag

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Thu Dec-30-04 10:24 PM
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23. Where do you want to go?

Either geographically or whatever?

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shesemsmom

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Thu Dec-30-04 10:27 PM
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24. Anywhere

I haven't had a vacation in 3 years!!!!! Canada was nice I would like to go back there. I would like to go to Penn. to see the liberty Bell maybe this year if our jobs hold out, Maybe while we are there we could go to Hershey to see where they make the candy. They say that is fun. I'd take any trip right now as Long as they do have Tsunamis there

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Guy_Montag

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Thu Dec-30-04 10:40 PM
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25. Why no vacations?

Money? Time? Apathy?

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shesemsmom

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Thu Dec-30-04 10:45 PM
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26. Oh we had the time.

Hubby lost his full time job after 9/11 due to the economy. His partime job and my full time job kept us going , barely, paid the bills but not the food.He has had hit and miss work until he got a great full time job after 2 years and he started that in August, but I'm afraid hell lose it since politics has changed. Now I am worried about BOTH of his jobs. They are both political jobs. I NEED A VACATION!!! REALLY BAD>

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