Marry Me And I Will Take You All Over The World: Quotes & Tidbits From a Life of Love

"Marry Me and I Will Take You All Over the World" is best summarized by its sub-title: Quotes and Tidbits from a Life of Love. Many families will recognize their own shenanigans from this book. Since it is written for anyone who can read, I have omitted lots of material that might be considered offensive. Here's one I probably should have retained: The year is 1984; an American colleague is visiting us in Paris to be honored for technical contributions to the Society of Petroleum Engineers. He thanks everybody: "merci beaucoup" (and they say Americans do not speak foreign languages!). He really should have stopped there, though. Instead, he continues in his best French: "I would like to sleep with all of you," (je voudrai . . . . .), when he meant to say "I love you all," (je vous aime.) You'd think the French would be upset, but in fact they whooped and hollered . . . at least my buddy "attempted" their language, and did not just assume that they all speak English. They get a bad rap, the French, for brusqueness . . . and rightly so (just kidding, France.) But actually they can be really nice; and Paris is a great cultural and architectural city (oh la la!). So . . . that's one of the many I excluded; wait until you get to the ones that made the book. As for the ones that I omitted, well they should fit nicely in my next book: "Wait, Wait, There's More . . . The Movie Version."