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1 posted on 04/16/2003 7:50:42 PM PDT by dvan
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I've cancelled or changed two trips to France during the next 18 months. I'll be touring the Alps this summer, but changed my route to avoid France. Next summer I'll be in Newfoundland again and had planned to visit the the last remaining French-owned area of North America (St. Pierre and Miquelon, a couple of islands off the coast of Newfoundland), but decided because of the French attitude toward the US not go to the islands but just to spend more time in Newfoundland.

So there's at least a thousand dollars the French won't get. I feel good.

2 posted on 04/16/2003 8:01:25 PM PDT by JoeFromCA
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I couldn't be happier. Usually, you worry about hurting innocent people in these things, but based on the polls, interviews with frenchmen, and the way the french didn't even bother to get mad about the desecration of the WWI dead, I have no sympathy for them at all.
3 posted on 04/16/2003 8:04:23 PM PDT by McGavin999
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non viva la francais..or whatever. I fart in their general direction. Monty Python does the best depictions of the french and france (lower case is ment). I am sending the email to all my address books and getting some printed to pass out at stores. Lets nail these snotty children in the only place they will feel it, the wallet.
4 posted on 04/16/2003 8:10:41 PM PDT by JHrules
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I can go along to a certain extent, but I'm not giving up my Jameson!
5 posted on 04/16/2003 8:11:49 PM PDT by The Old Hoosier (Support our troops: Bring them home.)
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I think that the personal citizen boycott is much more effective and does not complicate the government making it policy that would negate other trade treaties. I guess what I'm saying is that it might be better if the congress did not enter into this at this time.
6 posted on 04/16/2003 8:23:58 PM PDT by RJayneJ
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Next purchase of truck tires will NOT be earning money for france
No more Dannon or Yoplait yogurt...
Any thing I find I normally purchase that is french I will forego or find alternatives..
7 posted on 04/16/2003 8:46:17 PM PDT by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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USA to France:

"You feelin' me?" <|:)~

8 posted on 04/16/2003 8:49:10 PM PDT by martin_fierro (Mr. Avuncular)
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I've been boycotting the French ever since I saw, (where was it 60 Minutes (of mostly commercials) or Twinty, Twinty?), the story about the Simpson children Lisa and Bart enslaved on a farm in France! That did it for me! No more fine Citroen automobiles! Goodbye absinthe!
9 posted on 04/16/2003 9:01:59 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Subvert the dominant cliche!)
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Question - I've got a Peugeot and I love it. It's a great car that was made when Ronnie was prez.

What's a Freeper to do?

Doubt I could replace it with the same type of car and many parts are Peugeot only replacement. You just can't go do Kragens and get most of the stuff.
10 posted on 04/16/2003 9:54:27 PM PDT by Rate_Determining_Step (The US Military - Draining the swamp of terrorism since 2001!)
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A friend of ours has a tire store and when this first started he said that he hated doing business w/Michilen but he had to carry them because people want them and he didn't think that was going to change.

In the last 2 months when anyone asks about Michelin he just lets them know they are made in France and 99% have chosen a different tire.

12 posted on 04/16/2003 10:01:22 PM PDT by tiki
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