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Oui-Ha! French bureaucrats launch war against country and western craze
The Times ^ | 5/31/2008 | Adam Sage in Paris

Posted on 05/30/2008 10:34:20 PM PDT by bruinbirdman

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To: bruinbirdman
But we hate Americans when we confront the hard reality of their behaviour throughout the world.

Yeah, like a few years ago when America invaded the Ivory Coast and in several instances fired on unarmed protesters.

Oh wait. That was France.

21 posted on 05/31/2008 4:51:27 AM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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My daughter and her band are performing at a festival in France this summer called Equiblues, in the Rhone-Alpes region. There will be several Texas-country artists, they have a rodeo, vendors of leather goods, etc. Artists I’ve spoken to that have been to previous fests there say they are overwhelmingly welcomed and routinely sell out their merchandise. She did a festival in England two years ago and line dancing, while still popular, was on the wane.


22 posted on 05/31/2008 5:55:06 AM PDT by manic4organic (Send a care package through USO today.)
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My band used to play at clubs that catered to line dancers. I’d always get the band to slip in one bar of 3/4 in a 4/4 song. The confusion on the dancefloor was monumental!


23 posted on 05/31/2008 7:18:47 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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"He said the French shunned the square dancing that is popular among country and western fans in the United States because it involved physical contact. “They don't want to take anyone by the hand or anything like that,”

I guess keeping a distance from each other is a result of lack of contact with soap and water

Explains a lot about the low birth rate.

24 posted on 05/31/2008 12:59:00 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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Apparently so is Russia. I saw on - YouTube? - the Russian Army chorus singing “Sweet Home Alabama.”
25 posted on 05/31/2008 2:48:30 PM PDT by Dante3
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To: hinckley buzzard; spokeshave; Eva

Line dancing was created as a way for ugly people to gather together and ignore each other.

It has absolutely nothing to do with CW/swing dancing, nothing whatsoever to do with Texas, and is most certainly the antithesis of genial southern boy/girl goodtimes.

Bob Wills woulda thought someone had replaced the patrons with robots from a horror movie.


26 posted on 05/31/2008 2:59:20 PM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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