It was commissioned by Louis IX just to house Jesus 's crown of thorns that he bought in Spain for 135000 Livres , the church by contrast only cost 40000 livres to build . Hope he did n't get snookered . Next we took the subway to the Arc De Triomphe , The arch was commissioned by Napoleon in 1806 to commemorate his victories , but he was ousted before the arch was completed . In fact , it was n't completed until 1836 during the reign of Louis - Philippe .

A: What does the speaker mean when they say snookered ?

Class was , in fact , not quite as much of a fiasco as I was afraid it was going to be . But still pretty scattered . Turns out I was the only one to have both of the correct books . Which automatically volunteered me to come up front & try to use my auth .

A: What may happen after going to class ?

Why then does the angry lady have to berate me on three separate occasions this morning ? If she had noticed the errors before , we would n't have had these problems . Naturally I apologized , explained that there was some miscommunication , and told her I was under the impression that the book had n't been sent to the printer yet . The angry lady did n't seem comforted by any of this and was annoyed that she had spent all weekend worrying about her book due to the email I sent her on Friday to keep her updated on the situation - I will certainly never do THAT again .

A: Why did I sent her an email ?

When Kickass Daughter came home for a few days at the end of the summer , I annoyed her deeply by demanding that she go through everything in her room and weed out the nonessentials . Feeling violated ( she hates to throw out things ) and put - upon ( this was her only vacation all summer ! ) she managed to get through it .

A:
Why did the parent have their daughter do this ?