Boohoo.
Those poor cowardly frogs.

Go to Google and type in:

French military victories

Click I'm Feeling Lucky

Now I am really glad that I ate at Carls Jr, Today

Has the use of "racism" jumped the shark?

#2 [Engineer]

Click I'm Feeling Lucky

Then click the link, it get's even funnier.

The actions of Carl’s Junior in these commercials are blatantly racist and a violation of the intent of the United States Constitution’s First Amendment regarding the use of Free Speech.

And here all I thought the First Amendment did regarding freedom of speech was to prevent Congress from passing laws that abridge it. Learn something new every day. BTW; do they have an Article/Section/Clause reference to back up this claim, or are they just hoping for another Gitlow type crappy ruling?

In point of fact, it was only AFTER Waterloo that the French reputation for cowardice was justly earned. The French were brave at Waterloo, as much as it pains me to aknowledge the fact.

Napolean succeeded in killing off the entire french gene pool of those over 5'10". It looks like bravery somehow coded along with height, among the french, anyway.

French remained shorter than other europeans to this day.

Anyhow, enough pedantry.

I'll have to try out that chicken sandwich.

#2 I laughed so hard my wife ran in to see if I was having a fit.

THANKS!

Friggin' French.

I work with a woman who was raised in France; she's about 16 years younger than me. A few months ago, it was her birthday, and I commented that, when I graduated high school, she was just in Nursery School (or whatever the French equivalent is). I said, "Oh, so when I graduated High School, you were just learning to say "I surrender."

Needless to say, it didn't go over well. But, damn, it felt good to say it!

Cowardly bastards.

Disneyland in France has a problem - in that every night they have the traditional Disney fireworks display. It is this event which causes problems because :

At the end of the fireworks display.

1. Half the country of France surrenders.
2. The other half become collaborators.

Don’t be a big chicken. Eat one.

I really, really would prefer NOT to eat a Frenchman, surrendering or otherwise, if you don't mind.

Can I have mayo with my chicken, please?

"You can't HANDLE the truth!"

Whoops! I'm repeating myself.

The actions of Carl’s Junior in these commercials are blatantly racist and a violation of the intent of the United States Constitution’s First Amendment regarding the use of Free Speech.

Let me see:

"Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peacefully to assemble, and to petition the Government for redress of grievances."

Froggy wankers!

I really hate the Fwench, I really do!

Oh, and Viva la Carls Junior

Hey! If it walks like a Frenchie, talks like a Frenchie and tastes like a chicken--well...it's...mon Dieu! ...Le Chicken! Les Squawwwk!

And as tired as the line is, it bears repeating: "Going to war without the French is like going fishing without an accordion."

Just remember, even when not in Paris, you should apply appropriate treatment for relief of Paris-ites.

Q: How many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris?
A: Don't know, it hasn't been tried.

I am of French dessent, but I do bathe, shave, use deodorant (Everyday) and it is very hard to offend me!

I voted for Bush! I at least won ONE!

Heh...

"... going hunting without a vacuum cleaner"

I wonder what they'd think of one of my bumper stickers... "My Honor Student Beat Up France!"

Why are they lying by saying that this has something to do with Americans of French origin? Are they saying that being French is a racial characteristic? It has nothing to do with genetics. It has everything to do with behavior.

When people come to America and get involved in the American spirit and American values, they are Americans.

European behavior is abysmal. And it deserves to be criticised. I feel free to criticise that behavior, even though my ancestors lived in Europe. It's not a genetic thing. They need to recognize that European culture and values have something very rotten, and that European behavior, including the rise of Nazism, Fascism, Communism, and now Palestinianism, has some very serious flaws.

It's not inborn; it's environmental. And there is nothing racist about criticising a deficient environment that produces bad behavior.

If there were Carl's Junior restaurants in Florida, I'd be a patron.

[Link: www.carlsjr.com...]

these lawyers would have more credibility if they learned the proper use of "its" instead of "it's." idiots...

The French aren't happy with the Israelis either, accusing them of having an "anti-French neurosis."

He may be onto something ...

Araud criticized the media, and made special mention of a column Yair Lapid wrote in Maariv after Yasser Arafat's death in France. Lapid wrote, according to Araud, "this is proof that the French are sh**s."

"Saying the French are sh**s is totally unacceptable," said Araud.

Ja, sorta like the French calling Israel "that shitty little country". Same vibe.

This is complete hypocrisy. Do you know what the French national mascot is? It's symbol of masculine virility?

A coq, or rooster.

In other words, a chicken.

France's national symbol

France is a race? I guess that makes sense...

Nope. No it don't.

Mcgyver, out

This really should have been posted last night.
It could have been the SNDT to beat all others.

On second thought, we would have spent most of today hung over and cleaning up Charles place if it was.

I suppose Matt Groening is in Big Trouble.

As a Frech Dessendant, I love Capon! (Ball-less rooster)

#2 [Engineer] and 35 reaganite:

That's the most hilarious thing I've seen for ages. Thank you. Here's my favourite:

The Napoleonic Wars

Lost. Temporary victories (remember the First Rule!) due to leadership of a Corsican, who ended up being no match for a British footwear designer.

The French claim to be a race is just more self agrandizement.

I can't spell worth a shi*

#17

"...it bears repeating..." LOL!

It's not libel when it's true.

These asshats have an uphill climb if they're going to go after everyone who makes fun of French "military" (and I use the term loosely here) history.

Wankers.

There's more commentary HERE along with some pretty funny graphics.

Oops, I meant #5 reaganite not 35.

Charles, you forgot to quote the most interesting (and revealing) part

FRENCH BASHING
No other national or ethnic group appears to get the same continually negative treatment in print media reserved for France and the French, with the possible exception of Arabs or Palestinians, and even there, the treatment is not so much cultural as political, linked to a specific context or event. If one were to substitute, for example, "Mexican" or "Japanese" or "Indian" for "French", what would reader reaction be?".
- Edward C.Knox, The New York Times Looks at France, The French Review, N°6, Vol.75, May 2002

The French “bashing” (in the commercials, a voiceover refers to the French as chickens and cowards) is based on historical events and unfairly depicts people of French origin in a truly unsavory manner. The actions of Carl’s Junior in these commercials are blatantly racist.

so NOW there is a FRENCH gene? So that means if their lawsuit wins they would be genetically defined as cowards?

mommydoc Hi!

Did you get your results?

OT
Anyone watching Mythbusters?

Hilarious!

Time to get out the dictionary again. I just looked up "paedophile" for a previous thread, now I need to look up "racist".

...oh never mind, I think I remember the definition:

racist: an evil imperialist American-type person.

Something like that.

reaganite,

Which myth is it?

Leave my genes out of it!

What's more rediculous than 3 Frenchmen trying to build a house in the middle of a river? Four French engineers laying the foundation.

Check out their mailbag link. I just looked at approx. 15 letters and can't recall one that didn't sound like it was penned by an LGFer. Here's an example:

It should not have surprised me to have found this website. The major problem with the French is "projection." You are the single most chauvinistic and arrogant people in the world, and you project that unto America. You are dellusional about your position in the world, and are spiteful that ours has surpassed yours exponentially. You probably assume right away that I am some fat-assed American just sitting here in ignorance. Let me correct you. I am fit, I am pretty (ha, ha), I speak French fluently, I am--or was--a francophile, a recipient of a Franco-American Heritage Award in 1991, and I am all too aware of the behavior of vacationing Americans that causes annoyance amongst the French. However, I am also aware of the treason and arrogance that has earned the French distaste not only in America, but also in neighboring European nations. Your arrogance and cultural chauvinism extends beyond the transatlantic relationship.Your leaders have their hands in the bankrolls of Iraq. Chirac cannot afford to lead the 30th--or worse--economy of the world out of its bed partner's favor. Do not be fooled by the words of your leaders. They are no more valid than those of the U.N. Pygmies that dictate at home while set to deal with dictators of other nations. The U.N. is a bunch of dictator thugs. And France is fast plunging into their third world. And by no means will the United States after Bush be in any position to consider itself more worldly or cosmopolitan by allowing itself to be dictated to by dictators and thugs at the UN--all of whom should move to France. The world will never be entirely happy with the United States until we have bled our last drop into every foreign economy for its abuse and corruption. And let us not forget Charles parading through the streets after we liberated France in WWII. If getting along with the world means getting along with France, it is wiser to be sure first not that the world favors us but rather that it fears us. The idea of a world community is an oxymoron, while the average Frenchman is simply a moron.There will be no more Hermes, Cartier, or Vin Francais in my house. In the last wek alone, I have discovered wonderful alternatives to my French stapples. Hopefully, in time, my actions and those of others will effect your pocket directly, Mac. Then again, in your socialist dirty filthy country of unwashed arrogant pigs, you will perhaps just get a little more help from France's oil soaked bank rolls. Watch closely as your Iraqi friends abuse all points of decency in the face of cameras, and while we of American blood exercise a moral clarity that the treacherous and arrogant French have never displayed in their history of betrayal, deceit, and American skirt-hanging. Hide behind us no more, for to help you ever would cause outrage amongst us. It is only a matter of time before your sand monkey neighbors try agian to ram into the Eiffel Tower--or are you hoping they will skip you and hit Berlin instead because you have kissed their asses. Of course, that is the French way. Shave thy head and recall the bitches who slept with the soldiers of Hitler while you take your semi-weekly bathing.Brian in Boston

#38 Fay

Oops, I meant #5 reaganite not 35.

No worries. I love the link, I show it to people all the time.

Yeah, if there were a Carl's in Chicago I'd eat there too.

bigwilly: LOL!

From Guysen Israel News (I get it in an email, so no link, sorry):

Several tens of people met tonight in Paris in front of the Superior Council of the Audio and visual in order to protest against its decision to ''engage in sanction procedures'' against Al Manar, the Shiite Lebanese Hezbollah channel. (Guysen.Israel.News)

Among the demonstrators were DIeudonne and sportsman Djamel Bouras.

...

The Arab people are a bit like the Amerindians: they will fight till the end. My wish is that the Arabs get in possession of the atomic bomb as fast as possible. This is the only way to establish a real democracy'' declared Dieudonne; to ''24 hours''. (Guysen.Israel.News)

"Nowadays, it is the Zionists who are holding the reigns. I am anti-Zionist (not anti-Semite of course), because I refuse their imperial and racist program. One can not be Zionist and tend to the left. In France, the Zionists' domination is objective. Militias trained in Israel, supported by the Mossad, injured in Lyon a 13 year old girl during my show".

#45 Spiny Norman

Which myth is it?

Circus balloons lifting a child. The best part was after they busted the myth!

I've never seen a Carl's Junior.
However, in my future trips, I'm going to look for one!
And bet your boots...I'm pullin' in for a bite!
What a GREAT idea for a commercial!
And the french want you to overlook their history?!
Even better!
Boy! I'm hungry!

There once was a KFC with the following message on its readerboard:

Hillary Special: 2 large thighs, 2 small breasts, and 2 left wings.

And the amphibians are getting theur panties in a wad about this?

Cute.

Wow! I was able to find the attorney's these guys are using. Pretty high powered team.

#51 Yossarian

Several tens of people met tonight

That has to be one of the most anticlimactic descriptions of a crowd I've read in a while.

"As many as six people assembled..."

Oh crap, it's one I haven't seen!

And already late for my own birthday party... catch y'all later!

#58 was for #52... you people are posting too fast.

#58 Spiny Norman
Happy Birthday!

The french just created their own version of our color coded terror alert system but it is slighly different ;
1)Run
2)Hide
3)Surrender
4)Collaborate

Carl's Junior forgot Algeria and Indochina. Would have been quicker to list French victoties I think.

And the French are not a race last time I checked.

denigrate, humiliate, insult and injure the reputation of French/Americans

It's called free speech. It's also called the truth.

Now hold on a second, the fwench destroyed an unarmed Greenpeace ship a few years ago...and hey, what about the unarmed Ivorian's they just slaughtered, aren't those victories?

/

reaganite #5

LOL

That was damn funny, thanks.

+Photi

If you can't find a Carl's Jr., go to Hardee's. Same company.

aha, Iron Fist! Gotcha! *HUG*
:)

#64 Photios

That was damn funny, thanks.

When I was at CENTAF HQ a couple of years ago I was sent that "I'm feeling Lucky" thing, out of curiosity I clicked the link. Been telling everyone since!

maybe the french need meds in their water to calm down.

Thanx guys, always good to start off the week a good laugh.
Following #5 advice it was a long hilarious list of ignoble defeats.

#2

Engineer, I know I'm late to the thread, but I nearly pissed my pants! Thanks buddy!

61

The french just created their own version of our color coded terror alert system but it is slighly different ;
1)Run
2)Hide
3)Surrender
4)Collaborate

They just have one color and no numbers: YELLOW

Iron Fist, how have you been?
I missed ya. Email me, wouldja? I'm too lazy to go on AIM right now, studying for an exam, while reading LGF :P not the most productive combination.

Here, they try to blame Israel (of couse) for their recent troubles in Ivory Coast:

This week's Canard has a short item about the close relationship between Ivory Coast's leader Laurent Gbagbo and their religious guru Moïse Koré and the state of Israël. Gbagbo and his wife Simone are devout members of the American Protestant Church, the Four Square Gospel, and believe strongly that the jewish people will convert to christianity at the second coming of Christ.

Blame the Jooos

Hi, Fay! Yes, I am officially board-certified now. What a relief. And thanks for asking.

Spiny Norman: Happy Birthday!

Iron Fist: Back at you, man! You give good hug!

Check out this group's website. On the left is a link entitled "Comedy Writers." If you click on it you will find lots of funny anti-French jokes.

Btw, the thing about "how many frenchmen does it take to defend paris" made me laugh so hard... :)
And I spent a long time in French immersion, so I actually speak the language.

"denigrate, humiliate, insult and injure the reputation of French/Americans"

No, not "French/Americans", who are, after all, Americans.
This is about the French, not French/Americans. There is a big difference. It's an environmental thing, not a genetic thing.

There isn't any French gene.

#48 Joseph
Good piece.
The link to the anti-bashing site at the beginning of this thread conveniently lists several email addresses of Carl's Jr. and their ad agency.
I don't think it's what the french had in mind, but I used the opportunity to congratulate Carl's Jr. on their ad campaign.

Oooops, meant to quote this parag instead:

This close tie to their religious leader might explain for example why Israeli agents were spotted in Anti-French demonstrations in Abidjan and why Israeli Drones were spotted in the skies before military attacks against Northern Rebel forces. The Gbagbo's guru, Moïse, often travels to the United-States and Israël and has provided them an opportunity to initiate a new cooperation that has the raised the ire of the French Government who's troops are trying to maintain peace between Rebel Forces and the Gbagbo Government.

"I'm not French, but I'm a coward and a golddigger, which is almost the same thing. Can I get in on this lawsuit?"

Carls Jr should declare war on France.

My son tried to enter Tahiti and was strip searched and turnarround around at the airport by the muslim loving assholes. Although I have frog ancestry, my ancestors moved to America to get away from these arrogant incompetent pricks. Napoleaon may have dwarfed them at Waterloss, but they were mentally stunted by the Dr. Guillotene who managed to debrain the rest. Carl, by the way is a francofied German name. But like me , he ain't gor no love for the old homestead. Carl give me a bacon, avocado with onion rings.

37 hepcat

Ummm, scroll halfway down the first page of your link. Check the thumbnail pic of yankabroad. I joined the damn thing just because of her, not to chat, just to look.

yankabroad, is d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y a player, geezuz, is she ever.

heh, no mention of Lance's 6 consecutive victories in their premier race...they can't even win at bicycling...no wonder they feel just a bit inferior

discriminatory commercials

Discrimination is an essential skill, as Buddha noted.

Discriminating between snail eating, collaborating French jingoists and everyone else is a skill, not a problem.

I've never eaten at Carl's Jr. But I intend to try it now!

mommydoc, that's great, I'm so happy for you. Congratulations and hugs!

Well after all these years i for one am still seething at the discusting France 2 AL DURA fabrications.
this is without doubt one of worst cases of media manipulation, the world has witnessed and Enderlin is still carrying on as if nothing has happened, and indeed it is one thousand times worst than the DAN RATHER scandal about which there has at least been a tiny bit of umming and aahing at CBS.
By Stephane Juffa

...On the Palestinian Authority's TV channel, as well as in Palestinian school books, his example is used to encourage other children to emulate his spirit of sacrifice. Even in the West, the pictures that won so many journalism prizes have become the most recognizable symbol of Israeli aggression. When Ehud Barak, then Israel's prime minister, visited Paris in the same year, French President Jacques Chirac wryly scolded him. "Killing children is no policy." ( yes the french know all about killing children, At Issieux and througout france during WW2)
READ IT ALL - The media scandal of the last decade.

[Link: www.primo-europe.org...]

I am of French descent and have a very French last name. Dammit. BUT . . . We got a Carl's Jr. right here in town! Lunch EVERY day at Carl's Jr.!

I might start a new organization: Frenchies for America and Carl's!

I had a french tour guide this April tell me and my students that she had no idea World War II involved any other countries besides France and Germany until she came to the states to attend college. She said her high school textbooks dealt only with the war as it pertained to France and Germany!

I told her it must have been a short book. Heh.

Actually she was wonderful and preferred living in america...she even loved our food. And she did take us to Omaha beach and she cried as we stood in the cemetary over looking the beach. She wasn't the only one.

Just for fun:

The French "race" in their historical imagination (which conforms somewhat with the facts) is made up of Gauls and Franks, with some Roman senatorial blood among the noble Franks.

The celtic Gauls were the "barbarians" of Caesar's Gallic Wars for those of you who remember your Latin classes. They were defeated by the Romans, before they were conquered by the germanic Franks.

The Gauls are the shorter swarthier, smelly, rude and stereotypically contrarian leftist working class ones.

The Franks are the taller, lighter, cleaner, nicer, stereotypically traditional right wing ones living in their ancestral chateau surrounded by vineyards in Anjou.

How's that for racist?

These latter germanic Franks created the glories of the ancien regime which made France the dominant military and political power of Europe for a long while (with intermitent challenges by others).

The Gauls fomented the French Revolution that toppled a Frankish noble class already emasculated by the steady concentration of royal power at their expense and the subsequent loss of their traditional military function.

Of course there's no racial difference between the Germans, French, English, Scottish, or Irish who are descended from the tribes of Sicambrian or Riparian Franks.

By the way I love the commercial!

Gallic pique

...Pico de Gallo...

Very punny, Charles. :)

Carls Jr. should up the ante and list all the other debacles in which France has been involved.

#93 oh, and by the way, the chicken is the symbol of Gallic Republican (revolutionary) France (eeewww!).

The golden fleur-de-lys on a field of azure is the symbol of the Frankish Kingdom of France (the REAL France, vive le roi!)

I am now going to frequent Carls Jr regularly as a result of this commercial.

#95
My thoughts exactly =)

I'm feeling kind of litiginous myself:

Defendant (who are you accusing?): Lawyers and Settlements

Date of injustice: Your birthday, for starters

Title: Premeditated Idiocy in the First Degree, and existing with the intent of annoying me further in the future

Details of complaint: Your incredibly stupid (even for a tort lawyer) lawsuit against the restaurant Carl's Junior;
Your characterizion of the French as a separate race - an insult every actual race on the planet;
Your inability to understand the First Amendment;
Practicing law without a brain and probably without a real license;
Taking up space at your law school that could have been occupied by an economically disadvantaged person;
Collaborating with unshaven garlic-stinking bastards from the French consulate, with the obvious intent of undermining National Security and violating Public Health regulations;
Being a bunch of dope-smoking, protein-starved vegan half-wits who couldn't chase a parked ambulance.

by Ann coulter
American women to Kerry: We don't think you're so hot

Kerry's sister cited her brother's cultured refinement in a 1994 profile of Kerry in the Rhode Islander Magazine by saying: "Our parents felt deeply that we needed to absorb the culture and know the Europeans as friends." In his 1996 Senate campaign, reporters were dazzled and awed when Kerry responded to a Canadian reporter in French, snootily noting that Kerry's French was much better than his opponent's.

In a profile of Kerry's current heiress wife, Teresa Heinz, in the upcoming issue of Elle magazine, noted journalist Lisa DePaulo quotes Kerry oozing with admiration for his wife, saying she is "very earthy, sexy, European." "Earthy" and "European" appear to be euphemisms for hairy armpits and body odor. But we get it. American girls aren't good enough for Frenchy. We don't think he's so hot either.

maybe being french and a coward IS GENETIC...

The French military has one esteemed unit of brave soldiers and they deserve our respect and admiration. This unit is called the French Foreign Legion. They consist of men who are not French.

If there was a Carl’s Junior in Houston I'd go there every day for a week to show my support. And since when are the French a "race"?

Frog joke:

Why do the British always look so sad?

Because the light at the end of the tunnel is France.

The French aren't a separate race actually they are a separate species.

Animaniacs:
You wear a disguise to look like human guys, but you're not a man, you're a Chicken boo...

If Carl's is the same as Hardee's, try one of their Thick Burgers (I saw one of the ads from a link above had a "six-dollar burger" like Hardee's) -- you won't eat a Bic Mac or Whopper again any time soon.

#2 [Engineer]

HILARIOUS! :-)

99 LouMinatti

This unit is called the French Foreign Legion. They consist of men who are not French.

that is true and perhaps why they deserve respect...

mommydoc #76

Congratulations. It's good to see you again.

+Photi

[Link: www.miquelon.org...]

"Speaking of which, I noticed the French Embassy website is in French. If it wasn't for America, it would be in GERMAN. This would probably be an improvement as at least the Germans bathe with some degree of regularity, are clean and industrious."

ROFL!

If u look at the map of red and blue counties. the blue counties are urban counties with the exception of a handful of blue counties along the border with Quebec. Did you ever wonder how rural states like NH, VT, and ME could have voted for JFK? It was the french-americans who had not yet eaten at Carl Jrs.

This does not quite explain a handful of blue counties on the edge of gitchie-gumee unless les Quebecois moved west.

Since when is bad taste and a lack of a sense of humor a crime?

#103 christheprofessor

Hardee's is owned by Carl Karcher. They are the same company. And that thickburger is to die for!

Carl's Junior goes ethnic with its new Pastrami Burger. [Link: www.carlsjr.com...]

Normally I don't eat at Carl's Jr, but I feel a hankering for a Star burger all of a sudden...

Also for you English frog haters:

The French conquered and ruled England from 1066 until the crown was usurped by Henry Tudor in 1485. Not a bad run. The language of the English ruling classes was, of course, French.

The French are responsible for three things I admire:

1. Claude Monet

2. The bidet

3. Descartes

Aside from that, they can kiss my ass.

#114 Garnier
Back that far, huh?

I fairt in their general direction!

#111 Obe-wan

Thanks for the info... And I agree, the thick burgers kick ass!

Liberal Michael Totten says: let's reconcile with the French.

Is this the guy you want to be beating me in the 2004 Weblog Awards?

If you'd rather see a true conservative win, please vote for me here. I endorsed LGF today, and LGF commenters have helped me out a lot. Only about a dozen votes separate me and the French-lover Totten.

Show the power of LGF! Don't let Francophiles carry the day! Please vote for me now!

115

Aside from that, they can kiss my ass.

an apparent regular frwench activity hence the invention of your item (2

Totten probably hates thick burgers too. Me, I love 'em.

#119

Patterico, I voted for you today. I'm in direct marketing and you have a very compelling CTA, as we call it (call to action).

You could write copy for me:)

Is Carl's Junior related to Hardees restaurants? I've noticed what appears to be the "happy, fun star" or whatever it is called, that I remember from my long ago days as a California resident (though, thankfully, never a citizen) in the Hardees advertisements I occasionally see.

Henry II, perhaps England's greatest King, was French.

Before inheriting England from his mother he was the French Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and the Count of Anjou, Maine, and Touraine.

Many of England's greatest warriors like Richard the Lion-Hearted and Henry V were French.

Being French is a state of mind
A cowardly state of mind!

#124 garnier
From your profile,

garnier began his life as a coelacanth in the darkness of the Marianus Trench.

Umm, would that be garnier began his life as a coelacanth in the darkness of the Marianas trench Regardless that the coelacanth was found off the coast of Madagascar? Since you didn't have a point, I figured I wouldn't either...

(#119) Patterico

Playing the French card?

That's low.

I just checked out the Carl Jrs. website, and if NYC LGFers wish to eat there it is both a subway and a busride. Take the A,C, or E to Port Authority at 42nd St. and then get a Greyhound to eastern Oklahoma.

Off-Topic:

pookleblinky & zulubaby, my reply to your FBI raid retort can be found here.

You may not know that we fought the French in WWII. It has been, not covered up so much as just not discussed.

After Germany defeated France, their armed forces fought under German command in North Africa.

On November 8, 1942 operation Torch was launched with U.S. and British forces under command of General Dwight D. Eisenhower. The invasion was made up of three separate task forces. The first, made up mostly of British troops, took Algeriers with little difficulty. The second and the third ran into difficulty when they encountered French resistance, but by November 10 and 11 the two forces had taken Oran and Morroco. When the French were defeated in North Africa Germany quickly took advantage of the situation and occupied the rest of France.

Link

#123 see #111

The French will probably lose this battle as well

#129 PSG

All your posts look alike to me. Whereas I spice things up with proud porcupines pruriently proding pregnant Palestinian prudes.

How did you associate me with Zulubaby? Didn't you know use lizard-cadets must not be spoken of in the same sentence with the Elders?

_{Charles will release his wraith upon me for having done just that!}

#133 PIMF!

us

pookleblinky, you don't want to be associated with me? LOL!

Hardee's is great. That's one of the best things about driving down to Florida.

Powerline 25.3%

LGF 23.9%

Has everyone voted?

#124 garnier

The conquering French you mention were Norman, and inherited their conquering genes from the Scandinavians that conquered them. Being braver, taller, and blonder perhaps made them easier to shoot after the invention of gunpowder, and things have gone downhill ever since.

What is the difference between a road accident involving a hedgehog and a Frenchman?

There are skidmarks before the hedgehog.

awesome -- this assinine lawsuit will be tossed, carl jr.'s will get tons of humorous p.r. and the french losing streak will remain in tact! ("waterloo, ww2 and the 12th circuit court.")

considering "our friends" le french routinely depict our commander-in-chief as hitler incarnate, feasting on babies when he's not invading countries, i'm reminded of certain line from the drill instructor in bill murray's "stripes:"

"Lighten up, Francis."

"Lighten up, Francis."

124#

Henry II would also lose the battle over clerical courts to the cockney Becket. Henry's son, John, would lose almost all the Plantagnet French possessions due to arrogance and stupidity and was forced to sign Magna Carta by the English nobles.
Not a good ending for the "Greatest" king in England so my vote goes to HenryVIII.

Totten is making a big move. It will take a lot of action from Lizardoids to counteract it.

the Eskimo have 100 words for ice&snow...
The Hawaiians have 100 words for water&waves...

surely the french have 100 words for surrender&capitulation

#2
I tried your tip, and I spit all over my monitor! That was wonderful! hahahaha!

SoCalJustice:

The French card *and* the burger card. Cards that motivate good patriotic Americans, my friend.

The best thing to come out of France the last couple of years is the Dissident Frogman. I had not visited over there in weeks but was just over there now and his "Kerry? Kerry? (Mah Na Mah Na)" is another in a long line of must-see clips.

[Link: www.thedissidentfrogman.com...]

#5
Yes, that was even better! Glad my French ancestor jumped on the Mayflower, he knew enough to get the heck out!

#144 rsquare

Actually, there is only one French word for surrender&capitulation -- but it can be nuanced 100 different ways (btw, it takes centuries of defeats to be able to speak of S&C with so many different subtle variations).

#123 Ed Moran -

Yes, Carls' Jr. bought Hardee's in 1997.

The complete military history of France

144

surely the french have 100 words for surrender

actually the word resign is french for surrender

Well, it's true. They surrender. They've relied on defense weapons, failed to take the offensive, repeatedly lost discipline in the ranks under fire. It's all true, unfortunately. Too bad for you, Froggies, but that's your history. If you want to be looked upon as brave, you have to walk the walk once in a while.

There have been brave Frenchmen, such as Paul Reynaud, certainly Charles deGaulle (he was the only French commanding officer to force the Germans to retreat during the German invasion of France in WWII), and, of course, the brave individuals who fought in the resistance in WWII. And they DID help us in the Revolution, but that was a looong time ago.

Nevermind, I see the Hardee's/Carls Jr. relationship has been explored.

Think I'll take an extra Lipitur and get a Thickburger for lunch tomorrow

so I guess New Yorkers ought to be suing IBM for their latest ads depicting a French woman as being super smart and super cunning getting a whole new network of light sprite network laptops for corporate hq in Paris.
When her two male American counterparts ask her how she got rid of the old equipment, the mademoiselle replies "we dumped them on the New York office and where are you gentlemen from?"

"uh uh the New YYY...uh Jersey office"
and the French girl gives a mona lisa like "you putzes" smile

LAWSUIT...calling Johnnie " if the glove fits vote to acquit" Cochran

#120 dustyroadguy -- "Aside from that, they can kiss my ass." -- an apparent regular french activity hence the invention of your item (2 (in #115)

Quite so. However, the French should understand that I do not own a bidet. ...Hence the challenge.

#136 Iron Fist -- Man, you left off the guillotine! The only really significant invention to come out of Frogistan, well, ever!

This is also true. However, it was only ever truly valuable in France… which makes it a typical French invention.

I can only imagine the argument in court to support the "racism" charge:

"Your honor, the defense has alleged that the French are not a race, a necessary element to the present charge of racism. I submit that the racial identity of the French is well known, so much so, that it is embodied in the following poem, which can be quoted by any schoolboy:

The French they are a funny race,
They fight with their feet and f*** with their face.

Since a poem does not constitute proof, I now submit Plaintiff's Exhibit 1, Pierre, a Frenchman, who will now demonstrate the concepts of the cited poem."

Yes, I know that this is stupid, but no more stupid than the original lawsuit.

Hey, take a minute to visit the corporate website for Carl's Jr: www.ckr.com Leave them some feedback in the comments section :-)

The French/American community, with the support of the French Consulate will probably exert more of its national will fighting against Carl's Jr. than they did the Nazis?

Now doing face-time at the Karaoke Bar and Grill, I give you
"The French Race".

Sorry, it just popped into my head. I don't hate any people. I just wish some of them would quit sending me their scripts.

157 rtheyserius

This is also true. However, it was only ever truly valuable in France… which makes it a typical French invention.

Now now, the French are annoying, true, and they surrender, true, but I could start at aqualung, seguay to Braille, and go on and on. The French have made many contributions.

Plus, the Guillotine was used widely throughout Europe until the last century.

/teacher mode off

Funny, I was helping my son fill out college aps...mulitple choice question. I dont remember "French" being a race selection. There was black white, hispanic, etc..but no French. hmmm...

The threats have begun:

Turkish leader warns of terror wave if EU rejects membership

RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, the Turkish Prime Minister, has told European Union leaders that they will pay a heavy price in continued and escalating violence from Islamic extremists if the EU rejects Turkey as a member and confirms itself as a Christian club.

“Accepting a country that has brought together Islam and democracy will bring about harmony between civilisations. If, on the other hand, it is not welcomed, the world will have to put up with the present situation,” he said, referring to terrorism by such groups as al-Qaeda — whose local affiliates hit Turkey last year, bombing the British consulate and three other targets in Istanbul.

144-- a linguistic analysis of Churchill's great speech -- we will fight them on the beaches... never never give in, never never surrender -- showed that even though the English language is split roughly evenly between words of Anglo-Saxon and French origin, he only used one word from the French in that 1000 word passage --- surrender.

161 reader

I just could not resist a google of "The French Race"

Personally, I think CKE sucks, based on lots of stuff. I'd never invest with them, and I don't eat fast food. However, I will defend to the death their right to run a commercial insulting the Froggie surrender monkeys (or a commercial showing a blonde orgasming over a sandwich, which is another gem they've turned out). Freedom of Speech - I love it.

link for comment 165

The French invented surrender, but not the guillotine.

#166 dustyroadguy

Reminds me of my old Peugeot - during than brief period when it ran.

I wonder if the threatened lawsuit has any merit?

I wonder if Carl's Jr will defend against it, or will they just cave like most businesses under similar threat?

Hey, the French haven't surrendered in the war against Islamofascism. They've skipped that step, and gone straight to collaboration.

#17: And as tired as the line is, it bears repeating: "Going to war without the French is like going fishing without an accordion."

Hmmm. "Fishing" seems to not fit right. I could have sworn it was Norman Schwarzkopf who said "Going to war without the French is like going hunting without an accordion."

Or something. Then again, maybe it's an old saying...?

169 composmentis

ROFL. I'll go back to that site just to play with the fly. :)

neologisms:

musloid = belief that muslim faith is a race

frenchoid (also francoid) = belief that French identity is a racial classification

#173 zeppenwolf

Jed Babbin said that. I love that quote.

First, the whole charge of racism is ridiculous. There is no such thing as the French race. France is a nation-state, and her citizens are of no particular race. The suit is baseless.

But what do we have to gain by continuously bashing the French. We give ammunition to those in France who already hate the USA, and at the same time offend the conservative minority in France who approve of our anti-terrorism efforts and are still grateful for twice saving their nation from German domination. Could the USA haters in France be fanning these flames knowing that Americans will hurl insults back, thereby dousing any remaining shreds of support of America from their countrymen?

If you think the French have been nothing but surrenderring pansy-asses, read about the Battle of Verdun from WWI.

I really don't care about France. Never been there. Never plan to go. If I want to see what France is like, I'll drive 10 miles and visit Dearborn. But don't play checkers while the other guy is playing chess.

Seems rather factual to me. What's the problem? Three statement of fact followed by an admonishion not to be chicken.

Actually, its goes pretty easy on them. They coulda had a longer list, followed by: "Don't shoot civilians in COte-D'ivoire..."

And of course this is not racist?

#164 SoCalJustice

Is Erdogan saying, "If I am pledged by the EU, I will call
off the dogs?" He must be "the man."

Or this?

Courtesy of TV5, French National station

Carl's needn't worry about any legal action instigated by the French. After all, they fight with their feet and fork with their faces. Yes, I'm probably too drunk to post. Regrets to Iron Fist.

One of my favorite GI pictures :)

#177 Mich-again
france bashing giving them fuel?!
That'd be like giving $hit to a pet goose!
It wouldn't matter if I stood on my head & patronized every french restraunt in America!

But this is pretty funny

"I was here first"

The only genes unique to France are Neanderthal genes. This is not a joke.

Except for that one Neanderthal house at a site in central France, "there is little to suggest that Neanderthals could behave in a modern, Upper Paleolithic way,"

The French have been aspiring to Upper Paleolithic behavior ever since.

As a member of the American RACE, I hereby declare all opionions critical of America racist.

But this is only too true!

"France pays respect to Arrafat"

RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, the Turkish Prime Minister, has told European Union leaders that they will pay a heavy price in continued and escalating violence from Islamic extremists if the EU rejects Turkey as a member and confirms itself as a Christian club.

Case in point. Even generally well behaved Muslims have a hidden agenda.

Hi, Photios! Really, really good to see you!

French Lose Their Own Test Explosives on Flight - Matthew Saltmarsh (International Herald Tribune/New York Times)
Last week, France's national police planted a mobile phone-size lump of plastic explosives in an unsuspecting passenger's suitcase as part of an exercise to train bomb-sniffing dogs at Charles de Gaulle International Airport.
Four days later, nobody yet knew where the explosives went.
The explosives, which had no detonator, are not thought to pose a danger.
"We hope they don't throw it away," said a spokesman for the gendarmerie.

via Daily Alert

#186
Amen to that!

The French are extremely security conscious.

Having entered and exited France, my passport has no French stamp.

to quote jerry seinfeld: "not the way i would have gone but a bold choice."

i think the jack in the box ads with the french tv reporter interviewing jack is much more of a low key and therefore funnier mackerel slap to the frogs.

no one has yet mentioned that the big man carl karcher is a major socal donor to W and other Rep causes going back to the caveman days. quite a winger, but a great american nonetheless. he used to hand out ungodly quantities of free burger tickets at cali GOP conventions.

"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

While we're on the top of infantile whining, this one really is noteworthy:

Professor files complaint against student who dared to expose the professor's political classroom bias

To clarify the story: At Foothill College (in the SF Bay Area) there is an ordinance that allows students to file harrassment complaints against professors (mainly intended for things like sexual harrassment of frosh girls by randy old profs). But an America-hating professor has soiled his diapers and cried to the administration that one of his students has been harrassing him, and he proceeded to file a suit against the student using the very same harrassment law that was designed to protect students against professors. What was the student's "crime"? He discussed in public the professor's outrageous anti-American agenda. The twist is: the student is a conservative Arab-American!

Professor Files Grievance Against Arab Student for Revealing Classroom Intimidation

Los Altos Hills, CA (PRWEB) December 10, 2004 -- On Tuesday, December 7th, in an ongoing controversy at Foothill College, Political-Science Professor Joseph Woolcock filed a grievance against student Ahmad Al-Qloushi for mentioning Woolcock's name in the media. Don Dorsey, Dean of Student Affairs, summarized the grievance as, "Professor Woolcock feels harrased by your (Al-Qloushi) having mentioned his name to the media."
   
On Wednesday December 1st, Foothill College Political-Science Professor Joseph Woolcock tried to intimidate student Ahmad Al-Qloushi into seeing a therapist because of a Pro-American essay he wrote in Woolcock's class. The thesis of Al-Qloushi's essay is that the US constitution was a very progressive document, which has contributed to freedom beyond America's borders.

Waaah! Mommy, that mean student made me look bad!

#185 Beagle

You come up with some extraordinary links. That one
solved the question of the origin of "Monkey see, Monkey do."

The Neanderthals and the Cro-Magnons interbred and produced offspring."

You're offended by the surrendering cracks on that commercial, France? Then stop surrendering to every crackpot that comes your way!

As Homer Simpson once said, "God wants you to lead the French to what? Victory? We're French. We don't even have a word for that!"

#186
Hehe good one; French bastards think there better than the caucasian race, the bastards that've holed themselves uphere in Canada are even worse, we have french vs. rest of canada disputes all the time (i.e. french sign law: forced signs in quebec to be all french or mainly french; only won b/c too many frogs in canada)

To stuck-in-california

Although you are French in your ancestry, to us you are an American-a person who holds American values and beliefs. Just like French is not a race and is not genetic.

Now is a good thread to mention a really good old, out of print unfortunately book, "The Myth of Race," by Ashley Montague, who also wrote (ahem) - "The Natural Superority of Women."

Both good reads, and both available one way or another.

the french word for victory:

victoire féminin

If France were a football team, they would be called the Arizona Cardinals. Teribble owner, apathetic fans and the laughing stock of the league.

Check out their record in the "big games"...

Frogs Are #1: At Losing Wars

They have lost, in order, and not to mention a bunch of ties, the following wars

Gallic
Italian
30 Years
French and Indian
Spanish Succession
Napoleonic
Franco Prussian
WWII
Indochina
Alegerian Revolution.

#194 zombie

I wouldn't touch that Professor's name with a 10 foot
shepherd's crook!

( I am outta here. Too much bad joke material.)

#194

That is so F..ked up, nobody could make that up. The arab student was obviously the smartest of the two.

The French they are a funny race,
They fight with their feet and f*** with their face.

The only trouble with this poem is that no red-blooded American man of today -- and I'm confident the straight guys on LGF share this sentiment -- would admit that a Frenchie could beat us at performing oral sex on a Person Of The Appropriate Gender (POTAG). "You call that pussy-eating, Dominique? Regardez-vous, grenouille!"

(Incidentally, does anyone know whether the "fight with their feet" line is a reference to running away, or to

#193
You can't blame french for not being able to root out germans (like Iraqis trying to root out your army today) but we can blame them for letting them in in the first place. They built a hugeass bunker along the Rhine river but forgot that german tanks could, and did drive around it!

Sorry if someone has posted this:

Why are there so many trees on French boulevards?
So the Germans could march in the shade.

So, some day I plan to visit the Normandy WWII cemeteries. How do you do that and avoid France at the same time?

OT

fyi John McCain Preparing for 2008 Race

"The Neanderthals and the Cro-Magnons interbred and produced offspring"

Well, you know, it get awful lonely and cold in the ice ages...

But now I know where Tie Domi comes from...

#195 composmentis

There is a long-standing debate over whether Neandert(h)als and Cro-Magnons interbred - ignoring the debate over the h. I think the evidence for interbreeding is France. Notice their pronounced cranial ridges and sloping foreheads? Heh.

Well you know athe difference between French spies and other spies.

You have to torture the Frech spy for him to stop talking.

Homework for all the LGFers: find how many of these phrases come from the French!

Did I mention I love Wikipedia?

#208
lol good call, Domi's one bigass hockey goon.

OH THANK YOU CHARLES! I REALLY NEEDED A LAUGH TODAY!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

#209 Beagle 
There is a long-standing debate over whether Neandert(h)als and Cro-Magnons interbred - ignoring the debate over the h. I think the evidence for interbreeding is France. Notice their pronounced cranial ridges and sloping foreheads?

Actually, the modern French are not descended from the ancestral inhabitants of that area. Modern French are descended from the Franks (a tribe originally from Eastern Europe), the Romans (Italy), the Celts (central Europe), the Visigoths (northeastern Europe), the Vikings (Scandinavia), etc. Were the Gauls a native race, or did they too come from somewhere else originally? So -- while I strongly agree that Neanderthals did the dirty with Cro-Magnons and made little Neander-Magnon babies, I don't think those babies grew up to be the French. They grew up to be Europeans in general, perhaps, but not exclusively the French.

HUGE...LOLOLOLOL...Hysterical!

#214

You forgot the Germans in the mix that produced French offsprings...

FYI

Carls Jr. owns Hardees, so if you are in the South or Northeast (god help you) try the new 2 pound burger they are selling.

Are the French well known for having no sense of humor?

dak...Too Much...So funny...Im reading from the end of the thread UP. Your joke was great.

Jim C-

A fellow Lizardoid Chicagoan?

Almost sounds like a class, hehe

French Military Victories?

#214

Sorry. Visigoth counts I guess. And Ostrogoth. Goths. Normans. Vandals, etc.

Boy I guess words gets around that the French like having a good time...

If France were a football team, they would be called the Arizona Cardinals

That's for sure. They couldn't even beat the 49ers today!

Now the 49ers are 2 & 11 after blowing a 25 point lead!

Arizona needs to check their French ancestry.

#212

I agree that Ty is a tough SOB, but "bigass" is a huge stretch. I played golf with him in Phx a while back, and he is tiny. Tough, wiry, soft spoken, with a look like he's ready to crack you upside the head at any minute. But not big. Like 5-9 180 if he's lucky.

And does he hit the ball. Huge off the tee.

#56 theparson

How's your mom?

[engineer], reagainite, waterrabbit, et all

I laughed so hard at your posts, I almost dropped my laptop!

Here's one... French Army Knife

#214 zombie

You are discounting the random Neanderthal nookie hypothesis (RNNH).

#198 trigger girlie
Good post. Good for you.

Man compared to me Ty is massive... (damn short genes making me 5'3) but damn is he tough. Saw him a couple weeks ago in T.O. DAMN YOU NHL! I WANT MY HOCKEY, I don't care how they solve it... I have had enough of watching NFL and Seinfeld reruns

#222

I met Mr. Bidwell last week. I just walked up to him at at local resort and stuck my hand out and introduced myself and wished him good luck. He looked sticken to even be spoken to. Could barely muster a handshake, and made no eye contact. And this was at his fundraiser where he was just standing around holding his hoohoo in his hand.

All the presence and personality of a lump of glue. He made his money the old fashioned way. He inherited it. But he has made one great business decision in his life. He refused to sell his football team. Even this lousey franchise is worth, probably, $300 million. With no shareholders.

Actually I am being unfair about Ty. He works with kids a bit and shows a pretty good example for them to emulate, 'cept for the part about kicking somebody's ass on the ice. He sounds like a great guy (but won't win a beauty contest, neither will I)

Most anybody who's played hockey agrees that goons are necessary.

In one great interview the other day on the sports channel, one mentioned that his job was to make people "accountable" while condemming the anybody who hits you with a stick or breaks your neck from behind.

Tell Ty I don't really mean it, but I think he'd like the joke... (John Ferguson or Nylan or Kordic just don't have THAT look)

Perhaps Neanderthal genes are dispersed worldwide, given the time period in question. Got any Neanderthal in you? - Ancestry.wtf

So making fun of French people is "racist"
Hmm... as a person with French ancestors, I as a persecuted French-American am entitled to preferences on bids for government contracts! And we demand an end to the oppressive American expectation that we shower daily. It is racist, I tell you! There is no understanding of the French culture that glorifies the scent of one who has not bathed in two weeks. Come on folks, appreciate other cultures! Smell my French-American armpits!

Also we French-Americans should no longer have to suffer the indignity of waiting in line at movies.

Just hearing this on TV. In Wisc? there is a group called One Hundred Drunken Santas. Group of men and women all dressed up in Santa Suits. They go from Bar to Bar ...drink..play Pool..and COLLECT monies from the Owners and Customers..under the Toys For Tots Program. Aint that Cute? Aint that American?

We are sooo nice and have a great sense of humor. Much MUCH better than the French RACE? They think they are a RACE...for G-d Sakes?

In order for a class action suit to proceed a court has to certify the class as being "similarly situated" inasmuch as they suffered a similar monetary injury; there is no group that can be identified here as having suffered said similar injury, no such group that has lost a similar sum of money because of the actions of the plaintiff. Moreover its just plain silly, there is no case law to certify a class of "offended" people, each of whom may or may not be offended and certainly not to the same degree or in the same fashion. There is no injury, no common injury, and thus no ability to sue in a class action. This is nonsense spewed by non-lawyers, or even worse, by lawyers with no class-action experience.

If I was a weasel and somebody called me a chicken, I'd be pissed off too.

Good marketing to appeal to reactionary morons who harden their arteries at chain "restaurants". Obviously gleaned from the successes of Rupert The Murdoch's incessant auto-da-fe of French bashing. Juvenile, trite and effective, and has all of you trained seals clapping away with abandon. Next trick: spin a beachball on your noses!

Like all nations, France has done its fair share of international bastardry. It has sold weapons to very questionable buyers (like the US and others), it has engaged in amorality in foreign relations (like the US and others), it has tested nuclear bombs thousands of miles away from its mainland (at least like Britain).

And yes, it has surrendered in wars.

Ever actually got out an atlas? Ever looked at where France is? Ever looked at what countries it bordered? Now, since WW2 *started* on the continent, who do you think was going to bear the brunt of an invading German army? Nebraska? Into whose towns did the Panzers roll? The USA's? Nope. That's right, France.

Now, cue you to all start hopping up and down with a pissing match about how bad the French army was, how quickly they folded, and so on. All well and good, and not totally without merit. However, the point still remains: other nations braying about surrender is very luxurious when they didn't have to face an invasion themselves. Yes, I know all you tough guy heroes would have turned back the SS divisions with your sidearms, but theory is sometimes a little different to fact.

Here's some homework for you: go look up how many French soldiers died during WW2. Compare it to other nations. The number is sobering. It's not anything as horrific as Russia's sacrifice, but it still equates to a very substantial loss of life.

Cue the standard responses! Let the dance begin!

I grew up in Quebec, the French also surrendered to the British at the Plains of Abraham. The only real hero they had was Joan D'arc and they burned her at the stake.

Pragmaticus

Only one response is appropriate:

*snoopy dance of gloating*

#206

Go in through Belgium and go see the WW1 cemetaries instead. It's just fugging unbeleivable. Crosses as far as you can see in every direction (around Vimy, northern part of the front).

Shoot there is whole big monument at Vimy (where the Canadians fought) covered with names. These are the name of soldiers they could not find the pieces of.

There is a big forest there. One tree for every soldier that died.

It dwarfs the D-day cemetaries. With all due respects, of course.

Note to frog sucking surrender monkeys: Give us back our dead, we'll return the statue, and next time your in deep doo doo lose our phone number! p.s. fuhque you!
signed
America

#233 Right Brain 

There are so many errors in the the lawyersandsettlements.com announcement that I doubt it is for real.

Cue the standard responses! Let the dance begin!

Sorry, my dance card is all full up. Besides, humorless turds such as yourself don't usually have any rhythm.

The asshole's name is Tie, not Ty.

#231 Cornholio

Hmm... as a person with French ancestors, I as a persecuted French-American am entitled to preferences on bids for government contracts! And we demand an end to the oppressive American expectation that we shower daily. It is racist, I tell you! There is no understanding of the French culture that glorifies the scent of one who has not bathed in two weeks. Come on folks, appreciate other cultures! Smell my French-American armpits!

Also we French-Americans should no longer have to suffer the indignity of waiting in line at movies.

French or Coonass ancestry?

235 Pragmaticus

Am I misunderstanding your post, or are you trying to piss people off?

Lighen up dude... the jokes are funny (like the dumb polock jokes going around in the 70's, and the dumb dago jokes that followed closely behind). And while it may be true that France lost many soldiers in the wars in which it fought, and that every lost life is important, the fact remains that France has a dismal military record (including Napoleon's blunder that decimated the French army when it tried to take Moscow). Please stop tinkling on our cheerios.

#162 Cattt -- The French have made many contributions. /teacher mode off

Thanks for the lesson, but I already knew that.

I'll give the French more credit when they stop dissing Americans and give us the well deserved respect and appreciation we've earned with American lives and willingness to help them in their most dire moments of need.

Until then, they can kiss my ass.

#235

Actually, a better statistic is the percentage of French casualties (as a percentage of the population of males) in WW1.

They have suffered a great deal in WW1, no wonder they almost mutinied...

But they do have a history of cutting deals and invoking the raison d'etat...

Cornholio--All french-americans are entitled to $10,000 in damges --to allow us to purchase deodorant --

(I also am huguenot)

#241

Humor generally requires something to be funny.

That marketing campaign, although effective because it would appeal to the sodium addicted lumps of lard who make up the rump of the company's target market, is about as funny as your average piece of Cox and Forkum agitprop.

LAdies. Gentlemen.

This is not such a bad thing. In fact, if they win the law suit, it could be a good thing. It would, in fact, open the door to countries as plaintiffs in defamation suits. Imagine: Israel v. BBC )or AP, or AFP etc...); Israel v. Al Jazeera (it is being shown in the US); etc... Oh yes, let us not forget USA v. BBC, etc... for their "racism" in covering Iraq, etc...

This sword, if swung, will cut both ways.

#138 zulubaby 12/12/2004 06:41PM PST
Powerline 25.3%

LGF 23.9%

Has everyone voted?

ok ok ok i voted

#237 pookleblinky

*snoopy dance of gloating*

I didn't know snoopy had a dance of gloating?

Did Sarah D show you that one? She's holding out on me!

#230 Beagle 
Perhaps Neanderthal genes are dispersed worldwide, given the time period in question.

Actually, not quite worldwide. One of the most controversial of all human-ancestry theories is that Australian Aborigines (are you ready for this?) are not even homo sapiens sapiens! Apparently there is archaeological and DNA evidence showing that they were isolated on Australia for many hundreds of thousands of years before the final out-migration from Africa that produced modern humans. (There were two great out-migrations, the first one producing now-extinct proto-human groups like Java Man and Neaderthals; the second one leading to Cro-Magnons and modern humans). Looks like the Aborigines are descended from the first out-migration. The controversy comes in, of course, since this implies that they are not quite human, just super-advanced great apes, living Neanderthal-contemporaries of a sort.

Is it true? Hell, I don't know.

#235 Pragmaticus
You mean like when the Mexican army was trying to invade Texas? Remember the Alamo?!
Would've been easy for the guys to quit & surrender...but did they?
NO!
THere's only 3 legs of your soapbox touching ground.

#133 LOL! Touche! 'Tis true my posts doth present the countenance of undissimilarity...

French military victories

#248 Smegmaticus

Cox and Forkum agitprop.

Anyone else agree with El Pragmatico? Anyone?

#235 Pragmaticus

The simple fact is, Americans are getting tired of "allies" like France, who are actually working against them, rather than with them.

Unless and until France finds a backbone, and decides to quit appeasing the Islamofacits, the crude jokes and contemp will continue.

#235 Pragmaticus 

Two words for ya:

Maginot Line

(Five years to build. Two days to overrun. Even when the French had five years to set up defenses, the Germans ran over the French "army" like a speeding pickup squishing a possum.)

Why did the Frenchman chase the chicken across the road?

Make up your own punch line.

I believe there is a deep physcological reason the French resent the USA. We have never asked for anything in return...they could never repay. It is truly a sad chapter in human history.

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To the French people, I, for one, forgive you .

VV

#259 Zaideh,

Why did the Frenchman chase the chicken across the road?

Because even a chicken has standards.

I like cox and forkum. Pretty much the only "right wing" caricature artists. Look up further in the post to see some of the cartoons the French put out (I posted them there).

Cox and Forkum go pretty easy compare to that French boy... (and lets not forget the Guardian caricature from last week)...

#258

Not that it matters really, but the Germans simply went around the Maginot Line. They didn't actually overrun it.

Did I defend French WW2 military thinking, by the way? Show me where, please.

Skippy

Snoopy was the Fred Astaire of cartoon dogs.

*Snoopy dance of seduction*

*Snoopy dance of Purim* (Charlie has to provide the vodka)

*Snoopy dance of victory* (ditto)

*Snoopy dance of the call of nature* (after the vodka)

*Snoopy disco dance*

*Snoopy belly dance*

Ladies and Gents... we have ourselves a troll!

Let the games begin.

#256 Pookleblinky

LMAO... damn fine work...

I'm guessing Pragmaticus is a Vegan-addicted Moonbat, coming from the DU or Kos, who's still mad that Kerry lost the election, and we haven't kissed and made up with Europe yet.

Either that, or he's really Jacques Chirac! (Heh, heh, heh, sez Fritzie the Talking Kamel!)

/What is it about Sunday night that brings the Moonbats out?

The Religion of Peace™ strikes again, massacring Christmas shoppers at a crowded shopping center:

[Link: news.ninemsn.com.au...]
 

Where's reagainte, Iron Fist, Geepers, and Zulubaby when you need them.

All, I've come to the conclusion that our trolls are really issuing a cry for help by posting here at LGF. We need to do an intervention and get them into Troll Recovery.

#211 Pookleblinky

It's what I like about you
you always manage to actually find hard copy of the conundrums flitting around my subsoncious...
and i bet the french can't f**k with all their romantic posturing

And France's Charles the Great trounced the Muslims trying to advance northwards into Europe at the Battle of Poitiers which accounts for our speaking English instead of Arabic as the great English historian Gibbon famously observed.

Parliament with an upper and lower house (from which our Congress derives), trial by jury, common law, oxford and cambridge, representative government, courts of law all developed under the great Plantagenet Kings of England who were, of course, French.

#261 PDM

What do you get when you cross a frenchman and a pig?

Nothing, there are somethings a pig won't do.

PIMF 'psychological' - pretty tough word huh?

#268 Skippy Moment:

Do an intervention? I prefer to laugh at them!

(And there is, alas, no such thing as "troll recovery." Trolls are hopeless.)

Lawyers, French, and insults.. how long before the LLL demands congress shut our mouths with duck tape so we offend no fair weather allies.

Tbat bit about Professor Woolcock is frighteneing. Dear God, not only can these idiots preach any damn thing they want to in class, they don't want to be held accountable for it!

#263

At least this is (at least this far) a pretty reasoned discussions. No insults have flown yet, no racist accusations or sexual deviancy hinted.

Congrats lizards. It is still possible to have a discussion here instead of bing buried in insults.

Shoulda seen the bile that flew yesterday (late) when I presented a discusion point that did not exactly conform to the expected standards and position of some.

Had something to do with Ukraine.

Just wanna say I appreciate people who keep it relatively clean, no matter the item discussed.

#245 rtheyserius

I'm sure you can find someone who will be more than happy to kiss your ass, French or otherwise. How witty of you. I'm sure that line wins many of your debates.

However, when you say something that is patently not true, you will find that someone will invariably point it out on this thread (I know they have when I err). I suggest you might want to get used to it.

I don't know if I am glad or not that you "knew that," since you said the opposite in your original post.

# 266

Like most of the hive brains who bubble along here, you've guessed pretty wrong.

If you could read properly, you'd realise that I pointed out that French governments over the years have been responsible for all sorts of extreme unpleasantness. When it comes to realpolitik, they aren't scared of plumbing the depths. However, they are HARDLY the only ones guilty of this trait.

What I was shaking my head over is the Pavlov's dog response you natives have to a fairly tedious (albeit effective) piece of Madison Avenue positioning. They've read their market well.

Have the French no gratitude?

Pragmaticus parvus ursum magnum amat. Sed ursus magnus pragmaticum parvum non amat. Quis causae est? Propter Pragmaticus lunavespertilium est!
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Little Pragmaticus loves the big bear. But the big bear doesn't love little Pragmaticus. Why? Because Pragmaticus is a moonbat!

/You get a latinic name, you deserve my juvenile mockery!

#279 rtheyserious

has gratitude no french?

#243 SwampWoman 
French. (Hey, nothing I can do about it. And really I have nothing against French people, it's the yellow-bellied-lying-stinky-corrupt-cowardly-retre ating-cheese-eating French government I have a problem with.)

#256
pookleblinky  

Cox and Forkum

A troll who thinks Cox and Forkum aren't funny?!? Clearly the troll utterly lacks an understanding of cartoon humor. It can only mean one thing - "Pragmaticus" is actually Ted Rall!