Why do we hate the french again? - Page 12

glatt · 09-06-2005, 03:12 PM

The 2CV is a fun little car. Cute in a way. But I wouldn't want one.

glatt · 09-23-2005, 10:50 AM

I just discovered a new reason to hate the French.

They ruined the perfectly good cover art on an amazing book.

Would you buy this book? Look at that cover. It's hideous.

dar512 · 09-23-2005, 11:09 AM

Maybe the French would. Their tastes are different.

Happy Monkey · 09-23-2005, 01:38 PM

It's not really science fiction either, is it? More historical fiction, I'd say.

Urbane Guerrilla · 09-23-2005, 08:31 PM

Mmm... four rotor Enigma machine on the cover. As a former Intelligence guy, I'd at least pick it up and see how the thing reads. As a former intel guy, I recommend the book Blind Man's Bluff as worthy of attention from the spy-curious.

Urbane Guerrilla · 09-23-2005, 08:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrnoodle

However, Lance has to overcome an even greater obstacle to win. The wind resistance caused by his gargantuan American BALLS. er. ball. The French don't have that problem, obviously.

bargalunan has vestigal ones, at least, he still has hope.

Okay, Nood, let's start singing:

"Armstrong -- has only got one ball!/Barga -- has two but they are small..."

Urbane Guerrilla · 09-23-2005, 08:40 PM

The last Yugo I've ever seen on the road disappeared from Oxnard, CA two, maybe three years ago. It was red. Rather untidy inside. I suspect its owner (30-something male Caucasian, collar-length dark brown hair, medium build) now drives something a bit ... less surprising. It probably goes faster too.

wolf · 09-24-2005, 12:47 AM

As far as the question asked by the thread ... I still only get as far as "they're French" and I can't come up with anything else.

WabUfvot5 · 09-24-2005, 03:09 AM

Meet anybody from around Paris and you will know. I believe it happened with DeGaulle pumping up the citizens by letting them think they were the center of the world. Some of them truly believe that.

bargalunan · 09-24-2005, 07:11 AM

Salvador Dali said the center of the world was Perpignan station (city in south of France).
Even the genious can smoke too much.
Times are changing and France loses its magnificence. So sad...
If he was still alive he would say the new center of the world is Los Angeles.

bargalunan · 09-24-2005, 07:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Okay, Nood, let's start singing:

"Armstrong -- has only got one ball!/Barga -- has two but they are small..."

I know where is Urban Guerrilla's center of the world.
You can't find it on a map, but in an anatomic atlas

bargalunan · 09-24-2005, 07:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dar512

Maybe the French would. Their tastes are different.

I'm not sure when I see the successful US singers, fastfood and films in France.
And we're going to elect a politician nearly as mad as Bush.

The cover is really awful, so sorry.

Griff · 09-24-2005, 07:45 AM

Aren't many of our jazz singer/musicians more successful in France than in the US?

wolf · 09-24-2005, 10:58 AM

That's not necessarily a good thing ... Donny Osmond, David Hasselhoff, Jerry Lewis ... you see what I mean?

Urbane Guerrilla · 09-26-2005, 04:12 PM

Hee hee, Barga.

My Muse ran out of gas before I could come up with anything as good as "Himmler -- his are dissimilar" for a third line -- that's my favorite version of the third line of The Colonel Bogey March (and you haven't lived until you've heard a Japanese JASDF military band playing it!). "And poor old Goebbels/Has no balls/At all" is pretty much an insert-name-here kind of line.

09-23-2005, 11:09 AM	#168
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	Maybe the French would. Their tastes are different. __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

09-23-2005, 01:38 PM	#169
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	It's not really science fiction either, is it? More historical fiction, I'd say. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

09-23-2005, 08:31 PM	#170
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Mmm... four rotor Enigma machine on the cover. As a former Intelligence guy, I'd at least pick it up and see how the thing reads. As a former intel guy, I recommend the book Blind Man's Bluff as worthy of attention from the spy-curious. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

09-23-2005, 08:40 PM	#172
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	The last Yugo I've ever seen on the road disappeared from Oxnard, CA two, maybe three years ago. It was red. Rather untidy inside. I suspect its owner (30-something male Caucasian, collar-length dark brown hair, medium build) now drives something a bit ... less surprising. It probably goes faster too. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

09-24-2005, 12:47 AM	#173
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	As far as the question asked by the thread ... I still only get as far as "they're French" and I can't come up with anything else. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

09-06-2005, 03:12 PM	#166
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	The 2CV is a fun little car. Cute in a way. But I wouldn't want one.

09-23-2005, 10:50 AM	#167
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	I just discovered a new reason to hate the French. They ruined the perfectly good cover art on an amazing book. Would you buy this book? Look at that cover. It's hideous.

09-24-2005, 03:09 AM	#174
WabUfvot5 Operations Operative Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 634	Meet anybody from around Paris and you will know. I believe it happened with DeGaulle pumping up the citizens by letting them think they were the center of the world. Some of them truly believe that.

09-24-2005, 07:11 AM	#175
bargalunan Abecedarian Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Nantes (France) Posts: 175	Salvador Dali said the center of the world was Perpignan station (city in south of France). Even the genious can smoke too much. Times are changing and France loses its magnificence. So sad... If he was still alive he would say the new center of the world is Los Angeles. Last edited by bargalunan; 09-24-2005 at 07:29 AM.

09-24-2005, 07:45 AM	#178
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Aren't many of our jazz singer/musicians more successful in France than in the US? __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

09-24-2005, 10:58 AM	#179
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	That's not necessarily a good thing ... Donny Osmond, David Hasselhoff, Jerry Lewis ... you see what I mean? __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

09-26-2005, 04:12 PM	#180
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Hee hee, Barga. My Muse ran out of gas before I could come up with anything as good as "Himmler -- his are dissimilar" for a third line -- that's my favorite version of the third line of The Colonel Bogey March (and you haven't lived until you've heard a Japanese JASDF military band playing it!). "And poor old Goebbels/Has no balls/At all" is pretty much an insert-name-here kind of line. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

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