Posted on 12/15/2005 7:18:11 PM PST by Tzimisce
The Arnold Schwarzenegger Football Stadium in Austria's second-largest city Graz is to be renamed as a sign of displeasure with the city's most famous son,.
A majority of members on Graz City Council voted to rename the stadium after the Austrian-born governor of California approved the execution of Stanley "Tookie" Williams, according to newspaper Kleine Zeitung.
The Terminator-turned-governor was born six kilometres outside Graz in the community of Thal.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/people/arnies-terminated/2005/12/16/1134676432847.html
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When I think of the Europeans criticizing the US, I think of the infamous words of our Uncle P.J.
Back in London, I was having dinner in the Groucho Club -- this week's in-spot for what's left of Britain's lit gritz and nouveau rock riche -- when one person started in on the Stars And Stripes. Eventually he got, as the Europeans always do, to the part about "your country's never been invaded." (This fellow had been two during the Blitz, you see.) "You don't know the horror, the suffering. You think war is..."
I snapped. "A John Wayne movie," I said. That's what you were going to say, wasn't it? We think war is a John Wayne movie. We think life is a John Wayne movie -- with good guys and bad guys, as simple as that. Well, you know something, Mister Limey Poofter? You're right. And let me tell you who those bad guys are. They're us. WE BE BAD.
We're the baddest-@ss sons of bitches that ever jogged in Reeboks. We're three-quarters grizzly bear and two-thirds car wreck and descended from a stock market crash on our mother's side. You take your Germany, France and Spain, roll them all together and it wouldn't give us room to park our cars. We're the big boys, Jack, the original, giant, economy-sized, new and improved butt kickers of all time. When we snort coke in Houston, people lose their hats in Cap D'Antibes. And we've got an American Express card credit limit higher than your piss-ant metric numbers go.
"You say our country's never been invaded? You're right, little buddy. Because I'd like to see the needle-d!cked foreigners who'd have the guts to try. We drink napalm to get our hearts started in the morning. A rape and a mugging is our way of saying 'Cheerio.' Hell can't hold our sock-hops. We walk taller, talk louder, spit further, f#ck longer and buy more things than you know the names of. I'd rather be a junkie in a New York City jail than king, queen, and jack of all you Europeans. We eat little countries like this for breakfast and sh!t them out before lunch."
Of course, the guy should have punched me. But this was Europe. He just smiled his shabby, superior European smile.
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I'm part Austrian. Glad grandma moved here. Appeasement, capitulation, misplaced compassion...did they not learn anything from Chamberlain and Hitler. Anyone know what they'll call the stadium. Can we send a complaint to Graz...maybe a website or local paper?
"It's getting on our nerves that we're again and again being criticized for Schwarzenegger's actions in California,"
These guys have been using Schwarzenegger's name to get attention for years - that's why they named the stadium after him in the first place.
They can complain about the "unwanted" attention, but they are the ones jumping up and down screaming Schwarzenegger's name.
"Crikey. I guess they'll have to find another famous Austrian politician to name their stadium after...
Someone memorable, who has withstood the test of Time."
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For some reason only one name is coming to mind.
> For some reason only one name is coming to mind.
The von Trapp Family Stadium???!!! That would serve 'em right... ;-)
It's not at all funny though.
Can't Find The Vein Stadium
English will never be a lost language while Sittnick and Mrs. Elk draw breath. Tookie's Execution Stadium does have a certain ring to it.
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