Time to stop bashing French

Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | July 11, 2003 | Froma Harrop

[RedBloodedAmerican]

How do you separate the men from the boys in France? With a crowbar

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Q: What is the difference between a frenchwoman and a basketball team?

A: The basketball team showers after 4 periods.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Three doctors are at lunch when the one doctor brings up the easiest surgery he's ever done.

Dr.#1 'Ya know, I just did an operation on an accountant and, man, was it easy. I opened him up and everthing was in numerical order, completely in balance!'

Dr.#2 chimes in 'Oh, I can top that. Electricans are the best to operate on, everything is color coordinated.'

Dr.#3 laughs and says 'I have both of you beat. The easiest operation is on a Frenchman. There are no guts, no spine, no balls and if you ever get confused...the head and ass are interchangable.'

[thoughtomator]

There is a time to stop bashing the French - when France becomes majority Muslim. Then it will be time to start bombing.

[rockfish59]

Froma Harrop
Sounds like someone blowing chunks!

Time to invade Normandie again!

[RedBloodedAmerican]

"I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me."
--- General George S. Patton

[rwfromkansas]

What is this nonsense of people refusing to have French kids as exchange students? Has this actually happened, as I missed that in this column. If so, nice going whoever is refusing to have the French come...:)

Quite frankly though, in my 4 years of high school, I do not remember a single French person coming, not one. We had Germans overflowing, but not one French kid. Not a single one.

So color me a bit skeptical.

[rwfromkansas]

I assume it is on the editorial page.

If not, we need to write the editor of the newspaper, as this is some of the most blatant bias in a 'news' article I have ever seen.

Quite frankly, I don't think it is actually an article though. I appears to be a column.

[cardinal4]

They were in the first Gulf War but didn't want to be in this war. So what? Why the protest?

The number three man in Iraq, after Shwarzkopf and De Billere,(the British General) was a French General. It wasnt revealed until a week before Gulf War I started, this same General was the head of the France -Iraq Friendship Society. He never told anyone, it was dug up by a member of the press, I believe. That kind of duplicity, that kind of blatant disrespect, deserves the contempt the French are feeling now. The French suck...period.

[HitmanLV]

What a narrow Point of View this writer has. My mom, born in Italy, and in her late 60s, has told me many times that bashing the French has a several hundred year history, longer than the USA's existence in fact!

[Burkeman1]

Thanks for that nonsense.

[rockfish59]

PLEASE......Stop bashing us!

[cardinal4]

So its ok for a coaltion member to conceal an agenda favoring the very country they are fighting?

[sarasmom]

Waiting to see how "we" do so myself.
But as Condi Rice said that is what we are going to do,I am willing to believe we are going to do so.
Not to my particular, personal level of satisfaction, certainly, but whatever level it reaches, France can be eternally gratefull that this administration has not sought my input on the matter.

[Natural Law]

It's completely up to the French. When they stop back-biting and sniveling I'll throttle back a notch.

[rockfish59]

[Burkeman1]

Um- ask Bush that question.

[Burkeman1]

I think humanity is grareful you have not been sought on any issue whatsoever.

[Mihalis]

LOL !

Great post!

[sarasmom]

Cold war got won,didnt it?
hehehe