French Battle Flag - Ebay auction (funny)

www.ebay.com ^ | 2/24/2003 | unknown

[Reagan is King]

Funny Ebay auction of a vintage French Battle Flag. Bid before it's gone, lol.

FRENCH FLAG

[Fred Mertz]

Good post!

[mitchbert]

Beauty! Current post is USD$50.00!

[Blue Collar Christian]

Click the link. This is funny.

[ikka]

Sacre Bleu! Mon Dieu! Chevrolet Coupe!

[Captainpaintball]

This guy is not the original. He not only stole the idea, but he also plagiarized the description, and copied the EXACT picture.

The original flag auction drew over 80,000 hits and went as high as $20,000 with the proceeds going towards a Barrington, NJ Fire Company. Ebay pulled the plug on that auction earlier today.

[Contra]

Is that French Flag or French Fag?

[AgThorn]

Another "rare" ebay auction item was found here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2161790593

[weegee]

The auction was deleted the last time before some of my friends clicked it. Here is some of the text in case it disappears again:

WWI or WWII Vintage French Battle Flag Up for bid is something unique. A very very rare French Battle Flag. There was a nurse with the Red Cross during WWII. Helping our brave American soldiers after they stormed the beaches of Normandy under heavy German fire. She was then ordered to go inland to see if she could help there. While driving alone across France she became lost and drove into a large French village to get directions.

Once there she discovered three battalions of Elite French Commandos who had been hiding in the village since 1939 practicing their very special kind of battle tactics. “Evasion’on” I think they called it. She was surprised to see that as soon as she step out of the jeep, the commandos quickly retreated and hid. They were very good at hiding it seemed. She started searching for someone to give directions when the French commander sent a twelve-year-old girl out into the street waving a French Battle Flag (that this replica symbolizes) to seek “Terms of Surrender”. Confused, the poor nurse said she only wanted directions so she could help some real soldiers.

These terms were accepted and the commander immediately surrendered. The French immediately began to complain that under “Rules of Engagement” they were now her prisoners and she would have to defend them. Too her surprise 3 German soldiers also surrender. Well they weren’t really soldiers but 3 German Boy Scouts out hiking before the war but they had uniforms and one had a pen knife. Seems they had captured the village 5 years earlier and were now glad to rid themselves of the whining French peasants (This replica is of the French commandos not Germans). The Germans were shock to learn the French Commandos lived in the same village. Never once had the Germans seen a French soldier, but each now notice all the ugly French women were missing. Seems they were really good at hiding.

[Ouachita]

I suspected that the original auction would be removed, so I've mirrored it here.

[UofORepublican]

I fell on my ass laughing so hard. That made my whole night.

[patriciaruth]

Wish I'd known earlier, I could have bid on it myself. It would have been a nice thank-you for their sending us the Statue of Liberty.

[George W. Bush]

Good one. I saw it the earlier auction for it too. Funny writing about that brave nurse conquering southern France.