French police take the strain

BBC ^ | 11/8/05 | Patrick Jackson

[SF Republican]

I guess thats better than New Orleans, where the police took the Cadillacs

[lovecraft]

"But it is very difficult to do it [gently] because we have to be tough."

How about opening up that proverbial can o' WHOOPASS!!??

[timsbella]

Looks like Nagin and Blanco have French counterparts.

[Red Badger]

These guys wouldn't last 8 hours on the SouthSide of Chicago......

[bronxboy]

When are the surrender monkeys going to send in the army to quell the insurrection? I fear the USA may have to rescue the wimpy french again.

[tom paine 2]

"You can't say today that you're going to clean out the housing estates with a power hose."

Try a machine gun

[GregoTX]

They took the strain, it took them out of the scity. ZThey may take the stain all the way out of the scountry in a sreteat.

[vbmoneyspender]

Now I know why New Orleans has a French Quarter.

[timsbella]

And a good thing it's only a Quarter!

I wonder if their expression rings true in France right now:

Laissez les bon temps rouler! (Let the good times roll - bar-b-que to car-b-que)

[gotribe]

At least the French police have been issued their weapons now. Does anyone know what the rules of engagement are there?

[caisson71]

There is no French word for "Whoopass".

[Mr. Jeeves]

In the words of local police official Bernard Franio, the Grigny attack was an act of "real, serious violence not like the previous nights".

Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, who visited the injured men in hospital in nearby Evry on Monday, noted the pellet impacts on one of their helmets.

"So they were aiming for the head?" he said. "Then they really are louts."

LOL! You can't make this stuff up! ;)

[kevao]

I fear the USA may have to rescue the wimpy french again.

Not one drop of American blood should ever be shed again on behalf of the ungrateful, degenerate French. If they're so superior to us cowboy Americans, then let them find their own way out of this mess. Fuques France!

[lovecraft]

That's because WHOOPASS is an American invention that the French feel is beneath them since we've had to do their fighting for them since the early 1900's.

What happened to the French of the early days?

Napolean knew what whoopass was.

[wideawake]

"Dechirez le boite de fouette-a-cul!"

[lovecraft]

babelfish translation:

Dechirez limps it of whip-A-bottom

LOL that's close!

[wideawake]

Interesting.

Dechirez is a common verb but babelfish doesn't recognize it.

Boite means can or container, but boiter means "to limp".

[freebird5850]

I say to he!! with them. They were against the Iraq war, now they have it right in thier back yards. Mr President, don't answer the phone. Chirac on the other end is as curly as the cord on the phone.

[AmusedBystander]

Napolean knew what whoopass was.

Napolean was not French, he was Corsican.