Jacques Kerry does not see the humor in this story.
Posted on 10/05/2004 12:59:35 PM PDT by MNnice
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Subject: U. S. Marine
The Euro-Train was quite crowded, so the U. S. Marine walked its entire length looking for a seat, only to find that the last seat left was taken by a well-dressed middle-aged French woman's poodle.
The war-weary Marine asked, "Ma'am, may I have that seat?" The French woman just sniffed and said to no one in particular, "Americans are so rude. My little Fifi is using that seat."
The Marine walked the entire train again, but the only seat left was under that dog. "Please, ma'am. May I sit down? I'm very tired.."
She snorted, "Not only are you Americans rude, you are also arrogant!"
This time the Marine didn't say a word, he just picked up the little dog, tossed it out the train window, and sat down. The woman shrieked, "Someone must defend my honor! Put this American in his place!"
An English gentleman sitting nearby spoke up. " Sir, you Americans often seem to have a penchant for doing the wrong thing. You hold the fork in the wrong hand. You drive your autos on the wrong side of the road. And now, sir, you've thrown the wrong bitch out the window!"
Jacques Kerry does not see the humor in this story.
ooooh --- it's "Champs-Elysees" ... (I'm German, not French.)
My Grandmother used to wear that....
At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the French captured an English officer. They asked him why the English officers wore bright red tunics. The Brit told them that it was in case the officer was wounded, so the color would hide the blood and preserve troop morale. Ever since that time, French officers have worn brown pants.
LOL!
It is one of my faves fr someone to wear.
Doesn't make my iris turn red though like sunflower does.
(That's a bad thing, depending upon one's viewpoint.)
I don't know Sunflower.
I wear a lot of the spicy orientals, like Byzance or Cinnabar.
Sadly, MY tastes in men's cologne or after-shave are prosaic.... a nice Lime... or... God help me... Old Spice.
( Yes, my daddy was an occifer......)
Sunflower has two scents to it to my sense of smell, one heavy and strong, the other faint and frilly.
It.. uh.. 'does something' to my er.. mental state.
The iris of my eyes going from brown to red kinda gives it away.
I can't wear colognes too much, they all give me a headache.
So if I get spritzed with cologne.. it better be for a darn good reason.
*chuckle*
The owner of Little FiFi felt that her honor had been besmirched.
She cried out, on a train full of Frenchmen, for someone to defend her honor....
Well, I think we all know how that turned out.
The owner of Little FiFi felt that her honor had been besmirched.
She cried out, on a train full of Frenchmen, for someone to defend her honor....
Well, I think we all know how that turned out.
Ping for a good laugh!
Semper Fi
A funny thing happened to me yesterday at Camp Bondsteel(Bosnia):
A French army officer walked up to me in the PX, and told me he thought we(Americans) were a bunch of cowboys and were going to provoke a war.
He said if such a thing happens, we wouldn't be able to count on the support of France.
I told him that it didn't surprise me. Since we had come to France's rescue in World War I, World War II, Vietnam, and the Cold War, their ingratitude and jealousy was due to surface at some point in the near future anyway. That is why France is a third-rate military power with a socialist economy and a bunch of faggots for soldiers.
I additionally told him that America, being a nation of deeds and
action, not word, would do whatever it had to do, and France's support was only for show anyway. Just like in ALL NATO exercises, the US would shoulder 85% of the burden, as evidenced by the fact that the French officer was shopping in the American PX, and not the other way around.
He began to get belligerent at that point, and I told him if he would
like to, I would meet him outside in front of the Burger King and beat his ass in front of the entire Multi-National Brigade East, thus demonstrating that even the smallest American had more fight in him than the average Frenchman.
He called me a barbarian cowboy and walked away in a huff.
Mary Beth Johnson
LtCol, USMC
LOL!! Classic !
I can see you now, sprinting through the men's cologne department at the store, avoiding the Spritzer Ladies! LOL!
neal1960 wrote:
Mary Beth Johnson
LtCol, USMC
I was encircled once, and had to calmly explain why it was a bad idea.
How embarrassing.
bump
They aren't quite as agressive as they were in the early 80's.
I remember being stalked then by black-clad scare-crows with too much make-up.. just "poofing" you with the stuff without your permission...
"Here! Try "Obssession"! It's new!"
And they ALWAYs laid it on WAY too heavy.
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