Word for the Day, Friday, July 14, 2006, Bastille Day

July 14, 2006 | Argh

[LonePalm]

Like this?

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Argh]

Pity.

[Soaring Feather]

LOL

And Ole' to you on your frappe!

[CholeraJoe]

"culottes" were the knee-length trousers worn by the aristocracy and the upper class. The down-trodden masses refused to adopt this style of dress instead opting for full-length trousers. It became a rallying cry for the revolution, much like the "shirtless ones" who supported Peron's rise to power in Argentina.

Xs there's a word for it in Spanish but I can't recall it. I'll take my nausea meds and rent "Evita" this weekend.

[Gabz]

On the thread about it, which I hadns't seen yet when I linked the article, there are actually FReepers siding with the City Council.....unreal.

[Argh]

the suicide of a "planetary icon."

I'll be damned.

[LonePalm]

You are referring to "Los descamisados," the "shirtless."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Argh]

HAH! Yuck!

[Argh]

Freepers are? What the heck kind of freepers are those?? Sheesh.

[CholeraJoe]

Versailles is beautiful but while the King and Queen dined on hummingbird tongues, people starved in the streets of Paris, or sold their bodies for next to nothing.

I was last there in 2002, it hasn't changed much since the revolution. I'll never go back unless there's another revolution.

[Gabz]

The kind that 1) hate anything about WalMart and 2) believe it is the responsibility of an employer to keep employees off welfare, even if it means government forcing them.

[CholeraJoe]

Thank you! You saved me the nausea of watching Madonna.

[bwteim]

How Chirac views the butt-head, uh, head butt ZZ:

"President Jacques Chirac, at a meeting with the team Monday at the Elysée Palace, embraced Mr. Zidane and told him: "You are a virtuoso....You are also a man of heart, commitment and conviction. That's why France admires and loves you."

[Argh]

What?? But France is the only place you can get decent Dover sole meunière! :^)

[Argh]

Damn, Jacques, get a grip. "butt-head" was the perfect expression, bw.

[Argh]

Pretty lousy Freepers, if you ask me.

[Slip18]

Who are these people and what are they thinking? Send us your murderers, rapists, thugs, mugs, et cetera, and we'll put them on welfare.

EXCEPT Sheriff Joe is rounding all of the illegals up and sending them to Tent City in the desert from which they came.

How's mom and baby?

[Gabz]

Listening to the radio, and then the news last night about the discovery of a double homicide in Delaware had me really weirding out yesterday. One of the victims names was Gabriele Gabrielli.

[Argh]

Red Buttons has died.