It's not exactly the Battle of Hastings, but part of a long tradition.
Posted on 10/14/2020 10:45:42 AM PDT by nickcarraway
It's not exactly the Battle of Hastings, but part of a long tradition.
Was anyone taunted mercilessly?
Farted in their general direction?
The French threw frying pans at them?
Those dirty bastards!
Throw deodorant at them!
“French scallopers”
Filthy ticket resellers!
The waste...the waste...oh, I hate to see a frying pan wasted.
Deadly frying pans there outta be a law
D-day map. Does Omaha beach have the best scallops?
30 years ago I knew lobstermen around here who were not above taking potshots at other lobstermen who were encroaching on their perceived territory. Bar fights were big too.
Yes, in the U.K., frying pans are used by working class wives for domestic violence. Like they were meant to be?
I never realized until now how much Andy Capp was descended from Punch and Judy.
This has all the makings for a good folk ballad.
“Pierre! I am bringing ze boat around! Fire the muffin tins at them!”
“If zees battle becomes fierce, we may have to use zee crepe pans!”
Oh, oh. Not just wait for the Chinese fishing fleets to show up.
The Brits also stole the “Sweeney Todd” story from the goings on at an actual Paris barber shop. A French king used to eat at the establishment next to it.
He was not amused when he was told of what was passed off as “meat”.
So they were in French territorial waters? I’m all for Britain getting its fishing grounds back but its hard not to understand where the frogs are coming from if British fishing vessels are fishing in French waters.
I was expecting the map to show the exchange of frying pans happened nearer the British coast. If this one’s correct the French may have had a legitimate beef. Or “boeuf”?
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