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French Explorer's Shipwreck Found (Australia Might Have Been A French Colony)
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| Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Posted on 05/12/2005 12:16:47 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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File photo showing a diver recovering objects thought to be from La Perouse's shipwrecks.
To: nickcarraway
How do you say "G'Day Mate!" with a French accent?
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posted on
05/12/2005 12:19:49 AM PDT
by
The Great Yazoo
("Happy is the boy who discovers the bent of his life-work during childhood." Sven Hedin)
To: nickcarraway
The Frogs would have just surrendered to the Aborigines.
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posted on
05/12/2005 12:21:43 AM PDT
by
Stonedog
(I don't know what your problem is, but I bet it's difficult to pronounce.)
To: nickcarraway
Outback Steakhouse would be an escargot restaurant chain.
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posted on
05/12/2005 12:22:07 AM PDT
by
The Great Yazoo
("Happy is the boy who discovers the bent of his life-work during childhood." Sven Hedin)
To: nickcarraway
1788, Wow, that's when the french had "little" balls to explore and concquer. Now they got no balls.
Hey did they find Chirac's career in the wreck?
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posted on
05/12/2005 12:22:14 AM PDT
by
1FASTGLOCK45
(FreeRepublic: More fun than watching Dem'Rats drown like Turkeys in the rain! ! !)
To: The Great Yazoo
A "Blooming Onion" would be a "Blooming Chirac."
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posted on
05/12/2005 12:23:27 AM PDT
by
The Great Yazoo
("Happy is the boy who discovers the bent of his life-work during childhood." Sven Hedin)
To: Stonedog
Stonedog wrote:
The Frogs would have just surrendered to the Aborigines
--> I don't think the Frogs would have been able to survive/concquor any of the dangers in australia.
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posted on
05/12/2005 12:23:45 AM PDT
by
1FASTGLOCK45
(FreeRepublic: More fun than watching Dem'Rats drown like Turkeys in the rain! ! !)
To: nickcarraway
His ship's pennant was discovered, remarkably well preserved...
To: The Great Yazoo
Foster's would be "le Francois"
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posted on
05/12/2005 12:25:35 AM PDT
by
The Great Yazoo
("Happy is the boy who discovers the bent of his life-work during childhood." Sven Hedin)
To: The Great Yazoo
Australian wine would suck, just like French wine.
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posted on
05/12/2005 12:27:48 AM PDT
by
The Great Yazoo
("Happy is the boy who discovers the bent of his life-work during childhood." Sven Hedin)
To: The Great Yazoo
"Another shrimp on the barbie" would signify the placing of an additional especially masculine Frenchman on the grill.
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posted on
05/12/2005 12:31:47 AM PDT
by
The Great Yazoo
("Happy is the boy who discovers the bent of his life-work during childhood." Sven Hedin)
To: nickcarraway
Had La Perouse made it back to France he may well have successfully claimed the continent of Australia for France, rewriting the colonial history of the South Pacific.
God obviously saw what a disaster Frenchstralia would be and took him out. RIP La Perouse, you took one for the team.
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posted on
05/12/2005 12:33:54 AM PDT
by
Jaysun
(No matter how hot she is, some man, somewhere, is tired of her sh*t)
To: The Great Yazoo
One more:
Lingua franca would signify the French language.
I hereby pass le baton of trashing second rate culture to others.
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posted on
05/12/2005 12:37:12 AM PDT
by
The Great Yazoo
("Happy is the boy who discovers the bent of his life-work during childhood." Sven Hedin)
To: nickcarraway; shaggy eel; Byron_the_Aussie
Good one.
In gratitude for his passing I reckon the Aussies aught name something after him.
I reckon a nice little suburb south of Sydney -- down Botany Bay way, say -- aughta do the trick -- and that they should name it after him: "La Perouse;" -- and populate it with Australia's first immigrants -- the ones they quaintly [And erroniously] call: "Aborigines."
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posted on
05/12/2005 2:43:12 AM PDT
by
Brian Allen
(I fly and can therefore be envious of no man -- Per Ardua ad Astra!)
To: Jaysun; nickcarraway
<< Had La Perouse made it back to France he may well have successfully claimed the continent of Australia for France ... >>
And, had one of my aunts had balls, I'da had another uncle.
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posted on
05/12/2005 2:45:34 AM PDT
by
Brian Allen
(I fly and can therefore be envious of no man -- Per Ardua ad Astra!)
To: The Great Yazoo
I have never heard of a "Blooming Onion". I think "Outback" has pulled a fast one on you Yanks!
To: Aussiebabe
I have never heard of a "Blooming Onion". I think "Outback" has pulled a fast one on you Yanks!
There is no doubt about it. But someone has also pulled a fast one on you Aussies to call all Americans "Yanks!"
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posted on
05/12/2005 3:45:41 AM PDT
by
The Great Yazoo
("Happy is the boy who discovers the bent of his life-work during childhood." Sven Hedin)
To: nickcarraway
To: nickcarraway
Last week, a sextant -- an instrument used by navigators to measure the angular distance of the sun from the horizon -- with the inscription "Mercier" was found near "the fault". Well now we know just who was at fault
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posted on
05/12/2005 3:52:44 AM PDT
by
Cowman
(Just when you hit the bottom of the stupid hole you notice the guy next to you is digging)
To: nickcarraway
This proves that cowardice can be evolved out of humans in something short of 11 generations.
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posted on
05/12/2005 11:34:56 AM PDT
by
BlueMondaySkipper
(The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. - George Orwell)
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