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2011-01-20 Caribbean-Latin America

Baby Doc sez "Maybe this wasn't such a good idea"

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Posted by tu3031 2011-01-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Should have taken care of that at a consulate abroad instead of at the home office.

Posted by gromky 2011-01-20 00:12|| 2011-01-20 00:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Better start explaining the concept of a Mulligan to them.

Posted by gorb 2011-01-20 02:21|| 2011-01-20 02:21|| Front Page Top

#3 He ran out of rent money years ago in France and was living in a garage.
Perhaps this was just France's way of getting rid of a low IQ dead beat.

Posted by Water Modem 2011-01-20 08:24|| 2011-01-20 08:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Hate to say it, but Duvalier ran the country much better than his successors. Just like Marcos in the Philippines. I guess you can't win 'em all.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2011-01-20 09:53|| 2011-01-20 09:53|| Front Page Top

#5 The Serpent and the Rainbow, part II, "The Return of Baby Doc".

The original movie was quite good, with the final scene of him flying out of Haiti right as Baby Doc was overthrown.

Then you could tell the moment when some studio suit walked on to the set and said, "Bo-ring! We need more special effects! And like flying voodoo thingys! And smoke and flame and explosions and stuff!"

So the last five minutes utterly destroyed the movie.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-01-20 10:13|| 2011-01-20 10:13|| Front Page Top

#6 heh - he didn't think this through much, did he?

Posted by Frank G 2011-01-20 10:25|| 2011-01-20 10:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Damn. There's goes my Thunderdome solution with him and Aristide...

Posted by tu3031 2011-01-20 10:31|| 2011-01-20 10:31|| Front Page Top

#8 You could always try a Haitidome. Much more dangerous.

Posted by Charles 2011-01-20 17:49|| 2011-01-20 17:49|| Front Page Top

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