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French-film event hit with flag flap
Richmond Times Dispatch ^ | Mar 28, 2003 | CYNTHIA MCMULLEN

Posted on 03/28/2003 5:01:37 AM PST by putupon

Edited on 07/20/2004 11:48:34 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Preparing for Virginia Commonwealth University's 11th French Film Festival this week, Todd Schall-Vess mounted two red, white and blue flags atop the Byrd Theatre.

The flags were French. It's a French festival.

"Nobody thought about it Tuesday when I put them up," said Schall-Vess, the Byrd's general manager.


(Excerpt) Read more at weekend.timesdispatch.com ...


TOPICS: Announcements; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: frenchboycott; frenchflag; richmond
And what do we learn about Mr. Schall-Vess from this article?

In one e-mail response, Schall-Vess referred to the "anti-French sentiment currently in vogue." The writers suggested he must mean "in fashion" because "vogue" is a French word.

1. Mr. Schall-Vess has zero sense of humour. That e-mailer must have been a FReeper, or if not, should be.

"The sentiment that's posed by statements like that is much more disturbing to me," he said, "than what's going on in Iraq."

Mr. Schall-Vess has zero sense of proportion. He is more disturbed that someone sends him a wisenheimer email than that we are currently @ war with a murderous despotic megalomanic and our soldiers are fighting and dying to keep him safe?

1 posted on 03/28/2003 5:01:37 AM PST by putupon
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To: putupon
Aw Jeez! Not this shit again!
2 posted on 03/28/2003 5:04:25 AM PST by battlegearboat
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To: putupon
Typical Fan District hyphenated-name girly-man lib. Thank goodness I'm moving to Louisa County in two weeks - goodbye to Richmond!
3 posted on 03/28/2003 5:04:25 AM PST by GodBlessRonaldReagan (where is Count Petofi when we need him most?)
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To: putupon
update for post
4 posted on 03/28/2003 5:06:43 AM PST by putupon (The Frog Pond needs soap.)
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To: GodBlessRonaldReagan
Typical Fan District hyphenated-name girly-man lib.

Worse than the Fan, the Byrd is in FairyCarytown.

5 posted on 03/28/2003 7:30:46 AM PST by putupon (The Frog Pond needs soap.)
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To: putupon
This is not about being vogue.
6 posted on 03/28/2003 8:52:57 AM PST by freekitty
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