french fries get a new name in congress
WASHINGTON (AP) - House cafeterias will be serving fries with a side order of patriotism Tuesday with a decision by GOP lawmakers to replace the "French" cuisine with "freedom fries."
<a href="http://channels.netscape.com/ns/news/story.jsp?floc=FF-APO-1153&idq=/ff/story/0001/20030311/124502517.htm&sc=1153&photoid=20 030311WX110" target="_blank">the link</a>
how much more petty can we get? i'm guessing a whole lot more.
<a href="http://channels.netscape.com/ns/news/story.jsp?floc=FF-APO-1153&idq=/ff/story/0001/20030311/124502517.htm&sc=1153&photoid=20 030311WX110" target="_blank">the link</a>
how much more petty can we get? i'm guessing a whole lot more.
Comments
Beaujolais Nouveau will become - plonk
Hollandaise Sauce will become - Velveeta
<img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[oyvey]" /> some americans... would be better dead.
[ 03-11-2003: Message edited by: Defiant ]</p>
"The French Embassy in Washington had no immediate comment, except to say that french fries actually come from Belgium."
Love it
"In the Battle of Waterloo, the French surrendered.
In the Franco-Prussian War, the French surrendered.
In World War II, well, the French surrendered.
Don't be a big chicken, eat one.
The (whatever their fancy chicken sandwich name is)
Only from Hardee's."
Ouch. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
[ 03-11-2003: Message edited by: CosmoNut ]</p>
This is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. I'm PAYING THESE FOOLS FOR THIS?
<strong>I say good for them! I'm sure it took all but 10 minutes to pass, so no big loss.</strong><hr></blockquote>you're a fool
and this little joke by congress is absolutely beneath them . . .
Or, what's more frightening . . . maybe it isn't?!?!?!
A measured response, I think, to Chirac proclaiming <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,911866,00.html" target="_blank">"whatever the circumstance, France will vote no".</a>
Gotta love those waskily wepublicans, though. "Freedom Fries"...lol. I guess it'smore alliterative than the Liberty Cabbage we used to heap on our Liberty Steaks. I wonder, though, if general consensus will drop the "French" altogether. We could be watching liguistic evolution at work.
<a href="http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/sfelshin/saintonge/frhist.html" target="_blank">http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/sfelshin/saintonge/frhist.html</a>
Maybe the french bashers should stop listening to Rush Limbaugh and his party line fanatics and start thinking for themselves a little. It's not just the French who don't want a war. It's almost every country in the world except for those whose support has come after a "loan package" or "favorable trade status" offer. Even in the UK , our strongest ally by far, the population is by a wide margin( in some polls up to 80% against) against a war. The against the war % is even higher in Spain.
Yes, absolutely. A farcical hamburger commercial is fantastic empirical evidence of the ignorance of History of 300 million people.
I'm sure the team of advertising writers was primarily concerned with providing a robust analysis of the humanities in the proper dour manner that one would expect from Hardee's when they are hawking exquisite beef products. Undoubtedly their attempt to provide a diligent historical portrait of Franco-American relations was well intentioned. But unfortunately the three Americans employed at the Smithsonian who have actually read a historical text in their meager cultureless American lives and are therefore qualified to vet Hardee's commercials and other works of public art for historical accuracy were too busy to inform the people at Hardee's that they were grossly ignorant of the long and storied French tradition of courage and valor in battle as exemplified in the Battle of Yorktown. And thus we are left with this horrible commercial. Hooray for Lafayette and fück Hardee's.
Perhaps once the executioner is done with Mr. Ney he can pay you a visit Gilsch.
[ 03-11-2003: Message edited by: ColanderOfDeath ]</p>
<strong>you're a fool
and this little joke by congress is absolutely beneath them . . .
Or, what's more frightening . . . maybe it isn't?!?!?!</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yes, foolish me! <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> When the US walks into Iraq, looks at "the books", and sees how truly involved the French are/have been, what a "joke" we will all have, indeed.
[ 03-11-2003: Message edited by: Randycat99 ]</p>
Freedom Toast? <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[oyvey]" />
It just keeps getting better and better.
Plain.
Dumb.
These people are starting to undermine the sanity I credit them with, and that's making it hard for me to be taken seriously too.
<strong>Yes, foolish me! <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> When the US walks into Iraq, looks at "the books", and sees how truly involved the French are/have been, what a "joke" we will all have, indeed.
</strong><hr></blockquote>
Golly randy! that sure is a good point!
Their porbably hiding those plans for world domination . . France gets the Northern Hemisphere Iraq gets the Southern
. . . yeah . . we'll see!!!
<strong>Oh, I didn't realize this included "French Toast" as well.
Freedom Toast? <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[oyvey]" />
It just keeps getting better and better. </strong><hr></blockquote>
Indeed it does! I got a nice long Freedom Kiss from my gf a few minutes ago....and I'm pretty sure she's prepping the Freedom Tickler as we speak! Gotta go!