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Paul was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cote D'Ivoire
"around the time of the Warren Harding administration",
and worked for USAID in Guinea in the 1990's and
wrote a series of infamously funny booklets with
anecdotes about life in Guinea. He has generously
given us permission to reprint them here. All articles
are copyright Paul Rippey and are not to be reprinted
without his permission.. All files are in Adobe
Acrobat format. (click here to download
Adobe Acrobat reader for free)
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Tole
c'est pas tole a D.C. (si M. Rove le dit) |
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Pagaille (PCV Satirical Newsletters) |
Each file is a PDF file, viewable in Adobe
Reader(free).
The smaller file size will
download quicker, but it will be less satisfying
to read...
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La Pagaille
January 2003
Show me your receipt, ~itch.!!! |
1.1MB |
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La Pagaille
November 2001
Welcome to Guinea! |
3.5MB
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La Plagiaire
Summer 2001 |
1.6MB
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La Pagaille
April 2001
Happy Easter! |
3.1MB
1.4MB
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La Pagaille
November 2000
La W. Pagaille, Jr. |
1.2MB
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La Pagaille
September 2000
Hello, my name is Charles. I'll be your parasite
for the day. |
1.5 MB
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La Pagaille
January 2000
January 1900 |
1.4MB |
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La Pagaille
September 1999
Welcome to Guinea! |
1.2MB |
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La Pagaille
April 1999
Jeanette Likes It!
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2.1MB
1.5MB |
- Title
page & Credits
- A
Jerusalem, Tole c'est pas Tole!
- Guinea
haiku
- Top
10 possible explanations for my complete and
total lack of a love life
- Famous
Quotations, Guinea Edition
- Guinean
Space Station
- Top
ten lines from Star Wars that apply to life
in Guinea
- Letters
from our admirers
- Guinean
Drivers Exam
- La
Pagaille Index
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The Lame
Duck
1998
La souffrance est un conseil |
1.6MB |
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Bintu's Secret
January 1998
Ted Kaczinsky: PCV? |
7.3MB
2.4MB |
- Title
page
- Defense
Redefines Insanity
- The Insider: page
1, page
2, page
3
- English-Malinke
Travel Dictionary
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OoO! June, 1998
Former PCV McKenna implores:
"Go home now, while you still can!" |
1.3MB
1.1MB
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Wawa Tribune, May 1998
Pages and pages of twisted,
deviant behavior. |
1.9MB |
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La Pagaille
Jan-March, 1998
Disgusted Reader Calls Peace
Corps Guinea's Volunteer Journal "La Pagaille"
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1.6 MB |
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The Newsletter Formerly
Known as AWA
Sept. 1997
Conakrazy! |
2.0MB
1.7MB |
- Conakr-azy!
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Welcome to Guinea English Lesson
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The "Ro-tic"
wedding by Rolf Engelbrecht
'97 Stage
T-shirt by Herb Caudill
Third World
Driving Tips
Interview with
a Roof Rider
Ways that RPCV's
Know that they have Readjusted
Albert G. Finney's Description of Service (DOS) page
1, page 2
Bienvenue, Cracker! Hints for Guineans on how to
interact with foreign visitors. Page
1, Page 2,
Page 3.
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