I'm a born and bred American Southerner and hillbilly, and I love redneck and
hillbilly jokes. Some of you need to get over yourselves. It's just in fun.
Some folks seem to have no sense of humor (humour).
And I don't know the exact number of French casualties in WWI, but over 600,000
were killed in the War of Northern Invasion over here.
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Manuel Viet <oly@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Le dimanche 11 Mars 2007 17:27, Winsor Crosby a écrit :
>
> > Also I do not understand something sure to be offensive to the
> > members of the list who are French, have French relatives or friends,
> > or who have warm memories of interaction with French people is OK
> > because of a disclaimer about intent. Kind of like farting in an
> > elevator after saying the same thing.
>
> Let it be. It's not really offensive, it's just a sad proof of the record low
> quality in history teaching of the US school system. On the other hand, it's
> not always bad for us (french) to look like defenseless poor little things.
> It would be a lot harder for us if the whole world knew France economy is the
> leader in aggressive takeover on stock exchanges (by number - US is leader in
> value, but the margin between our two nations is actually very small). Not to
> shabby for a supposed "communist" country ;-þ
>
> Just to nail it : France alone had more casualties in WWI alone than the USA
> during all the wars of its history, civil war included, with our population
> being only about one fifth of yours. In out long history, we've seen about
> everything. Don't underestimate us : we have a long tradition of bloodbath,
> and we're actually better at it than some think. In europe, we are the only
> one with a full, independant army, with our boats, planes, and of course,
> missiles and A-Bombs, all french made and out of US control. No other western
> nation can say that.
>
> --
> Manuel Viet
>
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