french fries get a new name in congress

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  • Reply 61 of 70
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    [quote]Originally posted by Powerdoc:

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    Does that means that freedom equal France ? </strong><hr></blockquote>



    it just means that they are *-*-*



    don't say that again, kid.



    [ 03-13-2003: Message edited by: murbot ]
  • Reply 62 of 70
    murbotmurbot Posts: 5,262member
    I wonder if their mens bathrooms are going to start having Freedom Tickler condoms in the machines.



  • Reply 63 of 70
    rampancyrampancy Posts: 363member
    [quote]Originally posted by Powerdoc:

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    Does that means that freedom equal France ? </strong><hr></blockquote>



    Well, that's the reason why the US flag is red, white and blue, right? Because they wanted to emulate the original French tricoleur that represented the French motto?



    (How did it go again? "Equalité, Fraternité, Egalité?)



    Sorry if I mangled the French, Powerdoc. I dropped it in Grade 10 and took Latin instead.
  • Reply 64 of 70
    powerdocpowerdoc Posts: 8,123member
    [quote]Originally posted by rampancy:

    <strong>



    Well, that's the reason why the US flag is red, white and blue, right? Because they wanted to emulate the original French tricoleur that represented the French motto?



    (How did it go again? "Equalité, Fraternité, Egalité?)



    Sorry if I mangled the French, Powerdoc. I dropped it in Grade 10 and took Latin instead. </strong><hr></blockquote>



    I won't blame you for that , french is very difficult to learn, especially the grammar with many ****en rules. However i dropped soon the latin my self, good luck with this langage
  • Reply 65 of 70
    [quote] 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. <hr></blockquote>



    <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />



    That's Onion quality writing, Colander. Trenchant and quite astute. Kudos to you sir.
  • Reply 66 of 70
    newnew Posts: 3,244member
    [quote]Originally posted by Outsider:

    <strong>Anyway, the government should lead by exapmple so things like <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2003/03/13/news/companies/sofitel/index.htm"; target="_blank">this</a> do not happen. Unfortunate.</strong><hr></blockquote>

    Boycotting a country for not wanting to go to war. That's original. really.



    Imagine how sales of american products wil be affected by the war.
  • Reply 67 of 70
    toweltowel Posts: 1,479member
    [quote]Originally posted by rampancy:

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    Well, that's the reason why the US flag is red, white and blue, right? Because they wanted to emulate the original French tricoleur that represented the French motto?



    (How did it go again? "Equalité, Fraternité, Egalité?)



    Sorry if I mangled the French, Powerdoc. I dropped it in Grade 10 and took Latin instead. </strong><hr></blockquote>



    Well, the French Revolution didn't start till 1789, and by then the Stars and Stripes had been in common use for at least a decade. Did the Tricolor predate the French Revolution? Even if, the Americans were certainly not going to emulate a bunch of hot-head regicidalists who wanted to overthrow their good friend the French king. The Royal flag at the time, I think, was white with gold fleur-de-lis (sp?). It seems more likely the colonists were emulating the red, white & blue of the Union Jack.



    How exactly did the Tricolor come about, anyway? I read somewhere it was the white of the king's flag combined with the blue and red that symbolized Paris. Sounds like revisionist history to me. We they emulating their American revolutionary brothers?



    [ 03-15-2003: Message edited by: Towel ]</p>
  • Reply 68 of 70
    rampancyrampancy Posts: 363member
    [quote]Originally posted by Towel:

    <strong> How exactly did the Tricolor come about, anyway? I read somewhere it was the white of the king's flag combined with the blue and red that symbolized Paris. Sounds like revisionist history to me.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Hmm. I'll admit that my history is a little rusty. After all, I learned all this in my Grade 12 Modern Western Civ. class, and what I said earlier was just me regurgitating what little I remember from it.



    Revisionist history? I don't know. My teacher took great pains to present the course content with an objective, unbiased view point, and to give us as much exposure to original source material as possible, so I don't think anyone was out to bash the US or idolize the French. (Hey, if anything, we Canadians have the French to thank for all of that ornery Quebecois nationalism that we have so much trouble with. )



    Now, a real example of revisionist history is the US viewpoint of the War of 1812. C'mon...you *know* we kicked your butts. You just won't admit it, that's all. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" />
  • Reply 69 of 70
    toweltowel Posts: 1,479member
    [offtopic]

    [quote]...revisionist history...<hr></blockquote>



    Oh, I just meant that I don't always believe it when someone says that the colors of a flag have a deep philisophical meaning. Like, when I was a kid in CAR, we used to sing a song about the flag that went something like this:



    [quote]The blue calls out to us, "Be Brave", the white calls out "Be Pure". The red we save for the blood they gave, that this land might endure. We looove theeeee, Old Glooooryyyy....<hr></blockquote>



    I'm sure the patriots were thinking to themselves, "Let's add a splash of red in there, for all of us who will die horrible gruesome deaths. Yeah, that's the ticket!" As opposed to just someone with a preindustrial gift for graphic design adapting the previous adaptations of the lines and crosses of the Union Jack.

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  • Reply 70 of 70
    bartobarto Posts: 2,246member
    I wish all their parents had worn freedom letters.



    Barto
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