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The fruit police (you can't make it up fast enought)
The New Criterion ^
| 12/31/03
| Roger Kimball
Posted on 01/01/2004 6:54:27 AM PST by Valin
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posted on
01/01/2004 6:54:28 AM PST
by
Valin
To: Valin
When did "the Fugitive" have time to research this?
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posted on
01/01/2004 6:58:50 AM PST
by
Aeronaut
(In my humble opinion, the new expression for backing down from a fight should be called 'frenching')
To: Valin
Why???????
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posted on
01/01/2004 6:59:29 AM PST
by
Ditter
To: farmfriend
Ping...
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posted on
01/01/2004 6:59:36 AM PST
by
tubebender
(Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see...)
To: Aeronaut
When did "the Fugitive" have time to research this? Oops, my bad. It's not Richard it's Roger. Disregard posts @3 and #3. ;-)
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posted on
01/01/2004 7:00:05 AM PST
by
Aeronaut
(In my humble opinion, the new expression for backing down from a fight should be called 'frenching')
To: Valin
What a bunch of fruitcakes.
People who have been selling dollars and buying Euros might want to think twice.
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posted on
01/01/2004 7:02:17 AM PST
by
T'wit
To: T'wit
Somehow, just somehow I get the feeling that this "STATE" control was pushed by the French.
Remember the French continue to prove day after day that they are like their flag, blue for their laws, white for their control of their military, and red for their political bent!
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posted on
01/01/2004 7:19:44 AM PST
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: Aeronaut
It's Richard's clever little brother. :-)
I read something like this and my heart goes out to those in the satirical "community". How are they suppose to top this?
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posted on
01/01/2004 7:22:17 AM PST
by
Valin
(We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.)
To: Valin
The bent banana ban is probably a reaction to Clinton's time at Oxford
To: Ditter
Why??????? The answer is in the article. Kill the small businessman. Subordinate the individual to the collectives -- the state bureaus and the corporate giants.
To: Valin
Sgt.:
All right, bananas.
(All sigh.)
Sgt.:
We haven't done them, have we? Right. Bananas. How to defend yourself against a man armed with a banana. Now you, come at me with this banana. Catch! Now, it's quite simple to defend yourself against a man armed with a banana. First of all you force him to drop the banana; then, second, you eat the banana, thus disarming him. You have now rendered him 'elpless.
Palin:
Suppose he's got a bunch.
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posted on
01/01/2004 7:37:23 AM PST
by
xp38
To: SandRat
You're right, this reeks of France. It is straight out of the Napoleonic Code, which decreed every teeny detail of commerce.
Not that we can gloat. Bureaucrats everywhere and in all times are like this, and we have millions of them. It never occurs to a bureaucrat that the rest of us are fully capable of buying a banana even if it is bent double.
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posted on
01/01/2004 7:45:59 AM PST
by
T'wit
To: Valin
We didn't need to bomb Iraq all these years.
We just needed the EU to go in there and bring the rules of law.
To: SandRat
Remember the French continue to prove day after day that they are like their flag, blue for their laws, white for their control of their military, and red for their political bent! And how can you tell if it's an authentic French flag?
Easy. The blue and red attach with velcro!
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posted on
01/01/2004 7:52:14 AM PST
by
LouD
To: xp38
Ah yes, Python! Episode 4. :)
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posted on
01/01/2004 8:01:17 AM PST
by
solitas
(sleep well, gentle reader; but remember there ARE such things...)
To: Valin
How to defend yourself against a Bananna!
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posted on
01/01/2004 8:01:50 AM PST
by
Gigantor
(You're in America now; Speak American!)
To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
Well they are after all better than we little people. So they should govern us.
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posted on
01/01/2004 8:07:19 AM PST
by
Valin
(We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.)
To: secretagent
It all boils down to freedom. We have the freedom to sell bent bananas, cucumbers, etc. They do not have freedom. It's going to get worse and some of it will rub off on us.
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posted on
01/01/2004 8:07:41 AM PST
by
NTegraT
((No, I still don't feel any better.))
To: LouD
And how can you tell if it's an authentic French flag?
Easy. The blue and red attach with velcro!
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posted on
01/01/2004 8:10:17 AM PST
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: muir_redwoods
The bent banana ban is probably a reaction to Clinton's time at Oxford"under EU regulation 2257/94 their bananas are at least 13.97cm (5.5in) long and 2.69cm (1.06in) round and do not have "abnormal curvature" "
Yep, Clinton is definitely not up to EU standards.
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