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Jordi sent a picture of some of my friends back home in Spain playing Civilization Advanced "al pati" (you have to know Catalan to understand that last bit, sorry )

Includes Pep, David Vilanova, and others.

Arrived today. Amazingly fast, ordered Sunday night, to my door Tue afternoon. Wow - go Target. BTW, talking about Target, remember when Jennifer Connelly got locked in overnight in THAT movie? A cult classic, hot

BTW2, relevant Wikipedia explanation about the pronunciation:

"Many of Target's biggest fans jokingly refer to a Target store as "Tar-zhay" or Targé (Tar-jé), as though it were a French word, a reference to its more upscale image compared to its competitors. This trend is incorrectly believed to have been started by Oprah Winfrey, when she used the French pronunciation to refer to the store on her television show. This contradicts with Laura Rowley's book, On Target, which traces the pronunciation back to 1962, the year the first Target opened. This pronunciation has also led some people to incorrectly believe that the company is French-owned."