toadying up to the neighbours - not.

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The French sure love to
eat snails. Horrible, slimy
things. Just like the snails...

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(Avoiding The Marrakesh Snail Stalls: 17 Syllables)

going up before the judge (or with him?)

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"floor?" asked the judge in
the lift...I pleaded the fifth...
he pressed...the court rose...

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('Pleading The Fifth - Pressing Buttons, Not Charges': 17 Syllables)

hey, I'm working on it...

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to many, I'm a
perfect stranger - I'm flattered...
but perfect? -  hardly...

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- talk about being alone in a crowd...is there another main square anywhere on the planet quite like Marrakech's Djemaa el-Fna? And a heck of a crowd it is, too: snake-charmers, monkeys, musicians, cross-dressing dancers, storytellers, clowns, medicine-men, acrobats, teenage pugilists, exotically-dressed water-sellers, food stalls by the dozen, speeding motorbikes, horse-drawn carriages, wide-eyed tourists, touting locals...well, you get the idea. And all of them strangers...
Looking rather sorry for itself, a small dirt-encrusted and urine-stained Unesco monument declares the Square to be a 'Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity' in 2001...










('A Moroccan'roll Lifestyle': 17 Syllables)

an innocent abroad...

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"'tout', you say? - well, blow
me if the French don't have a
word for everything"...

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('Notes from Marrakech':17 Syllables)

the holy spirit...

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yes, Muslims drink - but
that's fine...provided they do
so religiously...

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(Vincent Hefter, News at Ten, Marrakech:17 Syllables)

alcoholic (dis)content...

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never get bitter
after a break-up - lager
works better, I find...

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('Bitter or Lager': 17 Syllables)

that, and Parliament once (a narrow loss)

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National Anthems? -
They represent everything
I've ever stood for...

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(17 Syllables)