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S.F. French bistro hosts protest with panache (oh puleeze!)
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| 3/15/03
| Steve Rubenstein
Posted on 03/16/2003 12:14:09 AM PST by I_Love_My_Husband
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:42:02 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Ten people, wineglasses in hand, came to the defense of la belle France on Friday in perhaps the most civilized protest ever held in San Francisco.
There was smelly French cheese for all, strong enough to overpower what the protesters complained was the stench of U.S. foreign policy.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: france; french; oldhippies; uglyhippies
God these people are old and gray! Don't they EVER give up??
People, the SIXTIES ARE OVER...we're NOT in Vietnam anymore! Jane Fonda has had tons of plastic surgery!
Give it UP already!
To: American Preservative; KneelBeforeZod; SeenTheLight; CounterCounterCulture
ping
This is some protest. These people look like they need wheelchairs and nursing homes!
To: I_Love_My_Husband
OH No, Here we go again
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posted on
03/16/2003 12:17:09 AM PST
by
mrsalty
To: I_Love_My_Husband
A sign was placed in the hands of a sleeping man at Civic Center Plaza. A peace march and rally against the possibility of a war with Iraq started at Civic Center and ended at Jefferson Square Park in San Francisco. Chronicle photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice
To: I_Love_My_Husband
God these people are old and gray! Don't they EVER give up??
Hell no. In their minds, they are "Forever Young". Dig the beret on the old lady's head. And the Beat goatee on the gent. If there's another war in twenty years, half the demonstrators will need walkers.
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posted on
03/16/2003 12:44:08 AM PST
by
wretchard
To: I_Love_My_Husband
I still say we should cut off all foreign aid to the Peoples Republic of California.
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posted on
03/16/2003 3:55:49 AM PST
by
UncleSamUSA
(the land of the free and the home of the brave)
To: I_Love_My_Husband
The Chronicle won't cover our counter-protest of 60 people (last time) but they'll do an article on 10 aging hippies at a French cafe. Now there's a sense of balance for you...
To: SeenTheLight
Not even 10! I see the pic and there's only THREE of them!
To: I_Love_My_Husband
Je Vomir !
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posted on
03/16/2003 3:21:18 PM PST
by
tet68
(Jeremiah 51:24 ..."..Before your eyes I will repay Babylon for all the wrong they have done in Zion")
To: I_Love_My_Husband
The ultimate expression of 'style' over substance.
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posted on
03/16/2003 3:22:48 PM PST
by
wimpycat
('Nemo me impune lacessit')
To: I_Love_My_Husband
At the protest table, unlike the U.S. Capitol dining room, there was no talk of freedom fries, which is Congress' new name for a french fry. Anyway, sniffed one protester, the proper name is pommes frites.If you do a literal translation, "pommes frites" means "fried apples". With the French, who knows what kind of fried apples you are getting. It might be fried road apples.
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