Re: Why I Feel Sorry For The French

Pier Danone wrote:
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> Pier Danone wrote:
> > "Leopold Stotch" <butters@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > | "Jay Furr" <jfurr-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > | > Why I feel sorry for the French:
> > |
> > | One of my favorite all-time Letterman Top 10 lists is:
> > |
> > | TOP TEN WAYS LAS VEGAS IS BETTER THAN PARIS
> > |
> > | 10. Vegas not crawling with Frenchmen
> > | 9. Impossible to get "I Crapped Out In Paris" T-****rts
> > | 8. Hard to get change in Louvre at 4 A.M.
> > | 7. Paris inconveniently located thousands of miles from nuclear test
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sites
> > | 6. Sorbonne basketball team is five tiny white guys   [ed. note:
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 list
> > | was broadcast way back when UNLV was good..]
> > | 5. Paris: men in berets on bicycles.  Las Vegas: orangutans in
cowboy=
 hats
> > | on unicycles.
> > | 4. Vegas didn't lose a single inch of ground to Nazi war machine
> > | 3. Palace of Versailles does not offer double jackpot time every 15
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inutes
> > | 2. Ten dollars won't buy you *** act in desert outside Paris
> > | 1. Las Vegans: hardworking, patriotic citizens.  Parisians: lazy,
> > | wine-swilling cheeseheads.
> > |
> >
> > But what is the difference between Las Vegas and a youghurt?
> >
> > You'll find a culture in the youghurt.
> >
> > The one thing all of the USA lacks (not just vegas) is any heritage or
> > culture.
> > Of course, that is not to mention that it also lacks any friends
anywhe=
re else
> > in the world. Even most of the British now hate yanks. Whilst Prime
Min=
ister
> > Blair may baiser de derri=E8re de Bush, the 'allies' really don't care
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for
> > Americans, or their most common ex****t - Obesity.
>
> Most people I talked to over there said they just hated our leaders -
> other than the blanket "all Americans".
>
> Not at all, most of the English blanket hate Americans for a number of
re=
asons
> (and not 'the leaders')
> For such a 'mighty' land, you did **** all to help Europe until the last
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minute
> of the 2nd world war, and then tried to take the glory of the victory on
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the
> back of 5 years work of the Europeans.

5 years of "work?"  You need to work harder.

> You dumped nuclear weapons at our air
> bases during the 80's, and in general, you are an obnoxious race. It's
li=
ke all
> the bad parts of a persons character multiplied and made into a whole
new=
 race
> 'the american'. Word on UK street is that Americans are the most hated
ra=
ce in
> the world. And thats an individual thing person on person. The problem
is=
, until
> 9/11 the Americans believed the rest of the world respected them and the
=
notion
> that ordinary people all accross the world had no respect for them, and
> basically hated them, comes as a shock to most normal americans. I sat
in=
 an
> ordinary country English pub watching 9/11 on TV and people were
cracking=
 jokes
> like 'Who ordered the jumbo' and saying 'After all the **** they have
don=
e in
> the world they do deserve it'.

<yawn>

Jon