French are unmoved by US 'frog bashing'

The Times ^ | February 8, 2003 | Tim Reid and Charles Bremner

[Cyber Liberty]

Nice people, frogs.

[PhiKapMom]

I was afraid you were going to say that! So frog legs are a staple along with snails. UGH!!!! Always knew there was no reason to go to France!

[You Dirty Rats]

Well, at least they have a good reason!

[Cyber Liberty]

They still think Jerry Lewis is a great talent.

'Nuff said, PKM.

[Guillermo]

Cause they eat frog legs!

In French it's "grenouille".

[laszlobn]

What did you expected from the French anyway?
1./They resisted the Germans almost 3 weeks in WWII.
2./They collaborated with the Gestapo, even more than the Allies of Germany! And Marshall Petain didn't do that alone!
3./They have almost as much mosque as church, no wonder why France is the favored destination for a muslim emmigrants.
regards:
laszlobn

[eshu]

[David1]

We should just ingnore these surrender monkeys and go after Iraq. The French can't do anything to stop us anyway.

[Oztrich Boy]

She said the problem with the UK has to do with agriculture.

"I do not dislike the French for the vulgar antipathy between neighbouring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded airs of superiority" (Horace Walpole 1787)

[duckman]

"They are looking for a weapon of mass destruction,.."

The French idea of weapons of mass destruction is Italian wine and head cheese.

[VeniVidiVici]

Ivan always seems to get great results when starting a thread :-)

My Frog story: While stationed in Germany, a few of us decided to drive to France and go camping (actually there are many Frog stories associated with this misadventure but you only get one).

On our way back to Germany we stopped at a French version of HoJo's along the autobahn just outside the German border. All we wanted to do was exchange our Franks into Marks.

We walk in and there was 130-year old Frenchie standing behind the Exchange counter. We put down our money and my friend said in his worst French, "We'd like to exchange this for Marks". I mean, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what somebody wants to do when they put money down on AN EXCHANGE COUNTER and say the currency you'd like.

Anyhow, the old man just stood there. My buddy must have tried 50 variations in French that we wanted to exchange our money into Deutschmarks. Old guy just stood there.

Finally, exaspirated, my friend said to the old guy in German, "Do you speak German?" Upon hearing that the elderly Frog straightened up and said, IN PERFECT ENGLISH, "Why should I speak German? We won the war!"

Yeah, right you did. Coulda slugged the guy. But he was typical of the all the Frogs we met.

[Treebeard]

A mime is a terrible thing to waste...

[Taffini]

the french would EAT anything--they invented it--it doesn't have to be washed first either

[Taffini]

that's another thing--mimes---who on earth could consider that entertaining? how why??????????

[CARepubGal]

Frog hating Bump! I love England (don't quite get some things Mr Blair does but at least your country is not (and will never ever be) a bunch of whiny ass frog eating surrender happy chickensh*ts like the faggots across the channel). :-) And France is despicable. Germany is expected to behave badly. France has been given many chances to pull their collective heads out of their fourth point of contact post 1789 but chooses to be losers.

[Straight Vermonter]

France is shrugging off what the left-wing daily Libération labelled “le frog-bashing” as a manifestation of the primitive prejudices now prevailing in a country with which it has a long tradition of rivalry.

Rivalry? Sure and Manchester United has an ongoing rivalry with your local tiny-tots football team.

[Travis McGee]

I have to admit, I thought I'd never see the day when America was at daggers drawn with France to the same level that Britain is. That day has come.

You sell us short! I never doubted it for a minute!

The UK and the US together forever! To hell and back again!

[Travis McGee]

Great story!

[GVnana]

Why would anybody in the US give a rat's behind about a little pissant country located somewhere in the middle of old Europe?

Might I interject? The invasion of Iraq will begin when the last French invoice for nerve agents has been shredded by Saddam's toadies. (in the opinion of Oliver North, and I'm inclined to believe him.)

The French conscience is below American radar -- hard to read. The French were knowingly and openly complicit in the export of Jews to German death camps, and even formed their own domestic units to do the job. (Something they pretend they don't know.)

The French probably don't need America. After all, their GNP can be made by consorting with 3rd World despots. And they're very good about wiping the blood off their hands.

[EaglesUpForever]

“The Americans always throw tantrums like this when they don’t get their way.”

Was it a tantrum at Normandy when we saved their butts? Let's hope we never help the French again, let them don their Burqas and surrender to the Islamofascists, it serves them right.