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January 21, 2005 at 3:10 pm #22387
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Participant“France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. France has usually been governed by prostitutes.”
—Mark Twain“I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.”
— General George S. Patton“Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion.”
–Norman Schwartzkopf“We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about it.”
—- Marge Simpson“As far as I’m concerned, war always means failure”
—Jacques Chirac, President of France
“As far as France is concerned, you’re right.”
—Rush Limbaugh“The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee.”
— Regis PhilbinThere was a Frenchman, an Englishman and beautiful young woman sitting together in a carriage in a train going through a French Provence. Suddenly the train went through a tunnel and, as it was an old style train, there were no lights in the carriages and it went completely dark. Suddenly there was a kissing noise and the sound of a really loud slap. When the train came out of the tunnel the woman and the Englishman were sitting as if nothing had happened and the Frenchman had his hand against his face where he had been slapped. The Frenchman was thinking: ‘The English fella must have kissed her and she missed him and slapped me instead.’ The woman was thinking: ‘The French fella must have tried to kiss me and actually kissed the Englishman and got slapped for it.’ And the Englishman was thinking: ‘This is great. The next time the train goes through a tunnel I’ll make another kissing noise and slap that French bastard again.’
Next time there’s a war in Europe, the loser has to keep France.
An old saying:
Raise your right hand if you like the French….
Raise both hands if you are French.“You know, the French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the 1940s who was still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn’t have the face for it.”
—John McCain, U.S. Senator from Arizona“You know why the French don’t want to bomb Saddam Hussein? Because he hates America, he loves mistresses and wears a beret. He is French, people.”
–Conan O’Brien“I don’t know why people are surprised that France won’t help us get Saddam out of Iraq. After all, France wouldn’t help us get the Germans out of France!”
—Jay Leno“The last time the French asked for ‘more proof’ it came marching into Paris under a German flag.”
–David LettermanJanuary 21, 2005 at 3:45 pm #28963y82benji
ParticipantThere are many bad things said about the French that are untrue or misleading, but one thing is for sure – war has never gotten them anywhere! My personal favorite is the episode of the Simpsons where someone says that the French don’t even have a word for “victory” (I think it was Homer). To be fair, though, they did help us beat off the British in the revolutionary war, but that wasn’t their own war, so it doesn’t count.
French Losses:
100 Yr War (~1600)
Spanish War (~1700)
French Revolution (1787)
-Napolean- (~1800)
Franco-Prussian War (~1870)
WWI (1914-1919)
WWII (1939-1945)
Vietnam (1960s)French Wins:
Norman Invasion (1066)
American Revolution (1775-1781)January 24, 2005 at 1:42 pm #28985Posc
ParticipantThey have good champagne. Now that Ihave been fair and balanced …
It is worth noting that in the French revolution, it was a group of women who killed the palace soldiers and forced the king and queen to leave Versailles and move to Paris. They obviously knew their men werent wearing the pants! [
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