Posted on 11/14/2005 5:55:00 PM PST by sociotard
I thought my fellow freepers would like this. I was just on another forum where a guy in france posted some screengrabs from CNN. I'll attach his comments.
Originally posted by altamaros:
Apparently, alarmed by the riots, we have decided to move our towns.
Apparently Paris moved 150 km east.
Lyon moves form its previous situation aside the alps to south of Massif Central
Toulouse decided that being on the Altantic shore was no good (too close to the USA, i guess) and move east to become a italian alpine city.
The mayor of Stasbourg was more careful. he chose his town to stop being in France and moved it in southern Germany.
the guy at CNN must have spent some time in Rennes since apparently it's the only town roughly at the good place.
Granted, if you slapped down an outline of france and asked me to pin the tail on the city, I couldn't do any better, but then I'm not a proffesional newscaster.
Originally posted by Solomon
Dude, that's CNN after all! Actually, merely displacing towns is an improvement for them... they've been known to displace whole countries on occasions! Look what they did to the Czech Republic...
Poor old Prague used to be a nice city, before CNN dropped Bern on it.
Hilarious.
I even got a B.S. in Geography.
Maybe I ought to pursue a career change..
I suspect CNN might be hiring.
hmm....you got a point there. lol. I give up.
Next they'll have Berlin in Saudi Arabia.
ROTFLOL
Cheese-nibbling whine-swilling monkeys throwing darts at a map.
And why is the word France vaguely located in Prussia?
I don't care who ya are, that's funny right there...
ROTFLMAO
This is one of the funniest threads I have seen in a long time!
18x the speed of light. So they reversed time, a'la Star Trek?
LOL -- I am keeping that one!
Perhaps... but if you have any expertise your odds of being hired are probably diminished.
Well, I hear it's so bad in France that they're asking the Germans to come back.
...shuttle only travelling blink 18? Hardly even escape velocity. Something must be wrong with the flux capacitor.
Well, what can we expect? We're lucky it wasn't Peter Arnette -Baghdaddy- reading the map... Or maybe he would have done a better job.
CNN doesnt hire smart people! ;-)
Hey! This could be your chance to finally be one of those "embedded" dudes! Job requirements include hanging around second-rate third-world hotel bars and wearing a lot of khaki.
I can train a chimp to be a CNN reporter.
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