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Posted on 03/08/2003 7:36:58 AM PST by Xthe17th
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You've probably already seen or heard some of these, but here they all are again in a single post. Feel free to add to the collection.
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posted on
03/08/2003 7:36:58 AM PST
by
Xthe17th
To: Xthe17th
Number of French Dead in World War II through June 1940: 120,000
Number of American dead in Korean and Vietnam Wars combined: 95,000
Rhetorical value of the fiction of French cowardice: priceless
Courtesy, The American Conservative.
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posted on
03/08/2003 7:42:52 AM PST
by
JohnGalt
To: Xthe17th
bump
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posted on
03/08/2003 7:43:06 AM PST
by
groanup
To: Xthe17th
"The French fight with their feet and f**k with their faces." -- Unknown
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posted on
03/08/2003 7:47:19 AM PST
by
martin_fierro
(SOUTH American Idol)
To: Xthe17th
The most famous French quote, "I surrender."
To: Xthe17th
"France is a dog-hole." - William Shakespeare, (All's Well That Ends Well, c.1603)
"The friendship of the French is like their wine, exquisite but of short duration." - German saying
"In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language." - Mark Twain
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posted on
03/08/2003 7:51:00 AM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
("We've got, you know, armadillos in our trousers. It's quite frightening really. The size.")
To: Xthe17th
"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion." --Norman Schwartzkopf I believe Donald Rumsfeld said this.
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posted on
03/08/2003 7:51:45 AM PST
by
IronJack
To: Xthe17th
Thanks for the quotes. :)
To: Xthe17th
Let me first say that I am French. That is my ancestors hailed form France but came to the new world because life in France was so awful. They carved out a new life for themselves in wildernes of Quebec. Then when Quebec was invaded they were caught defending in the wrong direction (can you say Maginot line, boys and girls? I knew you could). Finally my ancestors were subjected to terrible deprivations and discrimination and decided to come to America.
So to my French cousins across the pond...thanks for nothing.
To: JohnGalt
Rhetorical value of the fiction of French cowardice: priceless
Oh come now sir, I'm surprised at you! Let me provide you with a little contrast:
It's well documented that the French had the largest land army in Europe at the start of WWII and its equally well documented that the Poles didn't. Yet the Poland took longer for the Germans to conquer even with more troops to do it with. After the occupation Polish resistance to the German military took the form of the Polish Home Army and huge numbers of soldiers and airmen escaping to th Russians and British. The French "resistance" took the shape of a pathetically small number of fanatics terrorizing Vichy collaborators' women and children.
You bring up Vietnam...isn't the finest exploit of "French" military bravery exhibited by the French Foreign Legion? And even when that wasn't enough...did w not have to come and bail them out again?
Comparing the numbers of dead for us and them is infuriating and wrong. It proves nothing.
To: Xthe17th
France: A relatively small and eternally quarrelsome country in Western Europe, fountainhead of rationalist political manias, militarily impotent, historically inglorious during the past century, democratically bankrupt, Communist-infiltrated from top to bottom.
--William F. Buckley, Jr.
France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
--Billy Wilder
What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.
--Samuel Johnson
I would have loved it--without the French.
--D. H. Lawrence
Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming your friend for any obscure reason. If you want people to like you, you have only to spend a little money.
--Ernest Hemingway
Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The French probably invented the very notion of discretion. It's not that they feel that what you don't know won't hurt you; they feel that what you don't know won't hurt them. To the French lying is simply talking.
--Fran Lebowitz
They aren't much at fighting wars anymore. Despite their reputation for fashion, their women have spindly legs. Their music is sappy. But they do know how to whip up a plate of grub.
--Mike Royko
Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality.
--Charles de Gaulle
[Compiled by Jon Winokur ISDN 0-453-00565-9]
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posted on
03/08/2003 8:04:33 AM PST
by
cloud8
To: Xthe17th
Regarding the French: "Cheese eating surrender monkeys." Some show on the radio.
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posted on
03/08/2003 8:06:40 AM PST
by
raybbr
To: Live free or die; JohnGalt
A comment regarding French History the French Army at the start of World Wa II had more tanksthan the German army and more fighter planes than the Luftwaffe.
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posted on
03/08/2003 8:10:59 AM PST
by
harpseal
(Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
To: Xthe17th
"France would sell its own sister into prostitution."
-- One of my government professors, circa 1983
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posted on
03/08/2003 8:19:31 AM PST
by
Atticus
To: JohnGalt
Number of French Dead in World War II through June 1940: 120,000 Number of American dead in Korean and Vietnam Wars combined: 95,000
Rhetorical value of the fiction of French cowardice: priceless
Number of estimated Iraqi Dead in Gulf War One: 60,000 to 200,000
Number of estimated Iraqi Deserters in Gulf War One: 150,000
Rhetorical value of equating the numberof casualties with bravery: Zero
If death toll equated with bravery, zooplankton would qualify as the bravest organisms in the Animal Kingdom.
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posted on
03/08/2003 8:21:45 AM PST
by
Polybius
To: Straight Vermonter
So to my French cousins across the pond...thanks for nothing.My ancesters (well, some of them) arrived in Canada from Montigny, France, in 1695. I concur with your sentiments.
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posted on
03/08/2003 8:26:46 AM PST
by
Atticus
To: Xthe17th
FRANCE WAS SMART IN ONE AREA. OVER 70 PERCENT OF THEIR ELECTRICAL POWER IS GENERATED BY NUCLEAR, WHICH IS CLEAN AND SAFE (IS USING OTHER THAN SOVIET MKB TYPE TECHNOLOGY).
NO CO2 EMISSIIONS...LITTLE SOLID WASTER. IF KYOTO TREATY WERE IMPLEMENTED FOR SOME STUPID REASONS, FRANCE WOULD BE AHEAD OF THE ENERGY GAME.
OTHER THAN NUCLEAR POWER THEY STINK.
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posted on
03/08/2003 8:31:20 AM PST
by
bobg
(Bob G.)
To: raybbr
Groundskeeper Willie on the Simpsons, actually.
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posted on
03/08/2003 8:31:33 AM PST
by
Andyman
To: harpseal
the French Army at the start of World Wa II had more tanksthan the German army and more fighter planes than the Luftwaffe
And what did they do with them after France declared war on Germany while much of the German army was hundreds of miles away in Poland? Not a damn thing!
To: Xthe17th
"I'm going to Iowa for an award. Then I'm appearing at Carnegie Hall, it's sold out. Then I'm sailing to France to be honored by the French government -- I'd give it all up for one erection.
- Groucho Marx
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posted on
03/08/2003 8:35:49 AM PST
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
("Read Hillary's hips. I never had sex with that woman.")
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