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France Only Leads the World in Arrogance
NY Post ^ | Cindy Adams

Posted on 03/10/2003 6:41:21 PM PST by medscribe

FRANCE ONLY LEADS WORLD IN ARROGANCE

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Eiffel Tower - Photo by: AP

FRIG the frogs. Screw-ay les Francais.

Up the French.

France, a countrylet forever famous for immortal boons to civilization like shoemaker Christian Leboutin, dressmaker Christian LaCroix, stylemaker Christian Dior, is dissing the United States?

Mes enfants, vous can take votre French toast and shove it up your cafe au lait.

Look, I know today's big topics are: Our snow job, biggest blinking blizzard since that sprinkle of '88 ... our TV full of Michael Jackson who is also full of it and sticks his runt of a nose in all bad places ... and no-go Joe-blow Millionaire. But I wish to zap a nationlite which talks up its nose and whose speech once was, long ago was, formerly had been, previously had been, the language of diplomacy, the language of the air, the international language - and no longer is - and how they think they can make a pissoir out of the greatest country on earth!

Forget it, Pierre. France hasn't been a world power since Mrs. Curie discovered radium.

We don't need your eau de crap toilet water because ... believe me ... without Americans to wear your schmattas, without Americans to subsidize your tourism, without Americans to save your ungrateful behinds war after war, you'd be just where you deserve to be - a suburb of Germany.

As per the demonstrations, not all of us favor war. I'm not saying we should applaud killing that son of a bitch who wants to kill us. I'm just thumping for something called gratitude. Loyalty. Appreciation. A friend has been there for you? And that friend is suddenly in need? You help. You're there. What you confide to a friend in private is one thing. What you do for a friend in public is - you're there. You're his back-up. You fly his wing. You're his strength, his ammunition, his money in the bank.

A friend is someone you can count on. That's not France. The French hate the Americans. The French hate everyone. The French hate the French.

The ungrateful French, with their haute couture and haute attitudes, once were powerful. Well, they're not anymore. Even their cheeses smell.

France is small. Maybe its survival depends on its haughtiness. Shrimpy 5-foot-4-inch guys tend to be tough and arrogant. It makes up for what they're not. Could be that's what makes the French such pigs. With their future behind them, they have to excel in something, so it's arrogance.

Paris is beautiful, magnificent. But if its buildings were in New York City, we'd have condemned them long ago.

I realize I'm ranting. I don't mean to knock an entire people. In any case, I'm not important. Nothing I say will change events. However, even small persons like myself know what loyalty means. It means if someone saves your life, you do for them forever.

It's similar to the Mafia. You don't stand up for them, they'll sure as hell see that you lay down.

Let's see if La Belle France finks out on us after we tell her to stick her Pouilly Fusse. When we tell people, take a rowboat before you take Air France. How about we call for a boycott on berets?

You get a French manicure, we'll give you the finger. Your ex-pat countrymen here will starve because we won't invite them to dinner, go to their restaurants or eat their escargots, French onion soup, French fries, French dressing, French pastry.

It'll be ta-ta to foie gras. We'll do chopped liver from the Stage Deli.

Your Matisse exhibition is here? We'll check out Grandma Moses. You have croissants? We'll eat bagels. You do L'Oreal? We'll do Revlon. Perrier? Club soda! For you, it's Cartier. For us, it'll be Winston. When it comes to champagne, we'll play Pop Goes the Weasel. In place of French wine, we'll order California.

Think we should order Evian? You Les Miserables are all wet. We'll do Poland Spring.

You're hustling Hermes? We're doing la Gap.

You might've stuck it to Marie Antoinette but not Uncle Sam.

Nothing Made in France will get our attention except a couple of hookers in heat.

Wagnalls and his pal Funk say weasels are cunning sneaking rodent imbibing things. I say they should say, au revoir to le Yankee dollar.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: arrogance; betrayal; france; weasels
Wow! I didn't know that the old gal had it in her to bash the frogs like this!!
1 posted on 03/10/2003 6:41:21 PM PST by medscribe
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To: medscribe
FRANCE ONLY LEADS THE WORLD IN ARROGANCE

What about cowardice and body odor?

2 posted on 03/10/2003 6:46:42 PM PST by clintonh8r (It is better to be feared than to be respected.)
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bump
3 posted on 03/10/2003 6:50:17 PM PST by CathyRyan
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To: medscribe
We don't need your eau de crap toilet water because ... believe me ... without Americans to wear your schmattas, without Americans to subsidize your tourism, without Americans to save your ungrateful behinds war after war, you'd be just where you deserve to be - a suburb of Germany.

My favorite part of the article!

4 posted on 03/10/2003 6:55:40 PM PST by Paul Atreides
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To: medscribe

5 posted on 03/10/2003 6:59:15 PM PST by SAMWolf (The French are cordially invited to come to Wisconsin and smell our dairy air)
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To: medscribe
Baja Switzerland! (Si, Mein Herren.)
6 posted on 03/10/2003 7:04:18 PM PST by FreedomFarmer (Le Duk d'Adhesive and la Sheet de la Pl'astik are French defensive Heros!)
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To: clintonh8r
What about cowardice and body odor?

Yes, let's give credit where credit is due. And let "French diplomacy" enter our great lexicon of oxymorons along with "feline gratitude" and "liberal thought."

7 posted on 03/10/2003 7:05:29 PM PST by A_perfect_lady (Let them eat cake.)
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To: medscribe
Freep THE WORM here...
8 posted on 03/10/2003 7:06:03 PM PST by jimbo123
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To: medscribe
Wow Cindy is getting pretty feisty. My dog says it is Jazzy the yorkie that inspires her :-)
9 posted on 03/10/2003 7:08:02 PM PST by CARepubGal
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To: CathyRyan
and a bump to your bump.
10 posted on 03/10/2003 7:08:12 PM PST by bribriagain
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To: medscribe
*Think we should order Evian? You Les Miserables are all wet. We'll do Poland Spring.*

I still think that the brand Evian is a joke on someone. Notice that Evian is "naive" spelled backwards?

11 posted on 03/10/2003 7:32:05 PM PST by chantal7
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I still think that the brand Evian is a joke on someone. Notice that Evian is "naive" spelled backwards?

Coincidence. Evian was a spa town long before its bottled water became famous

12 posted on 03/10/2003 8:10:35 PM PST by Eowyn-of-Rohan
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To: medscribe
I love Cindy Adams!!!!! I will SO have to print this article out and read it whenever I feel glum, as a pick-me-up.

She and Jazzy have feistiness running through their veins -- THANK GOD!!!
13 posted on 03/10/2003 8:21:40 PM PST by conservagrrrl (It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees)
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What's really funny is that the "lingua Franca" was actually:

"...a pidgin or trade language that flourished in the Mediterranean from perhaps as early as the 1300's until perhaps as late as the 1800's. It was a blend of Italian, Provençal (or Occitan, the language of southern France), and Catalan (the language of the east coast of Spain). It had as well hints of Spanish, Portuguese, Croatian, Greek, Turkish, and Arabic.

Its grammar was extremely reduced. There was no gender, no plural suffix, no person suffixes for verbs, no possessive or separate objective form for pronouns.... The only grammatical suffix that survived was "-to" for the past tense! We can see similar grammars in modern Pidgins and Creoles, such as Melanesian Pidgin English and Haitian French Creole. "

Me-mange, frenchy.

14 posted on 03/10/2003 8:26:29 PM PST by fourdeuce82d
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France Only Leads the World in Arrogance

Arrogance and......gas. :0)
15 posted on 03/10/2003 9:26:13 PM PST by ETERNAL WARMING
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I was going through items of French origin that I have and thinking of things French that I use...and much to my surprise...I have found nothing.

There is nothing to sacrifice, nothing to boycott because I have nothing to discard or not buy.

Nothing in the book stacks either.

I have unknowingly been French free all along!

16 posted on 03/10/2003 9:32:11 PM PST by battlegearboat (Sockray Blue!)
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Someone tell Cindy that Perrier owns Poland Spring. No, really they do. Now, hmmm, who owns Canada Dry? Ah, maybe Cadbury-Schweppes will have to do.
17 posted on 03/10/2003 9:33:22 PM PST by caspera
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To: jimbo123; medscribe
<< FReep the Worm here >>

Brian Allen
P O Box 551
Sedro-Woolley
Washington 98284-0551
United States of America
+1-360-404-7935

Dear FRiend and Brother Jack

I wish to thank FRance for its sole notable contribution to the advancement of Our Species:

Your serially-surrendering, Nazi-collaborating, Belgium-based Neo-Soviet's squalidly-socialist satellite state's recent ceasation of its barbaric practice of beheading its judicially condemned surely catapulted the EURO-peon sub-variant of the Human Species into at least the eightenth century. [Right up there -- almost -- (Congratulations, by the way!) with the nineteenth-century-fixated once-great British!]

Now all that is required is that all y'all adopt the English Language as your native tongue [In this you might follow the example of the struggles of the once-great British to do the same] and to follow the lead of Our Beloved FRaternal Republic as we almost single-handedly [If your "secret sevice" Inspector Clouseaus will just cut-out murdering visiting Portugeuse in their harbors, the New Zealanders and Australians and Israelis will, as ever, keep up!] continue to Vanguard the Advancement of Our Beloved Judeo-Christian ["Human" that is] Civilization!

God Bless Our Beloved Nation's President and Armed Forces Commander In Chief, George Walker Bush -- and God Bless Civilization's Last Hope: the United States Of America!

Blessings -- Brian

18 posted on 03/10/2003 10:09:01 PM PST by Brian Allen (This above all -- to thine own self be true)
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Alas--their burgundy wine is like no other---Hermes scarves are the best--nothing lays like a Chanel tie--their fois gras is incomparable--their cheeses stink to high Heaven and back--and floating through their canels is wonderful.....

So much for the THINGS...Now about those lousy, spineless, greedy, smelly, cowardly, self-righteous, undermining, two-faced PEOPLE....

19 posted on 03/10/2003 10:14:46 PM PST by MHT
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To: battlegearboat; medscribe
<< I have unknowingly been French free all along! >>

Easy wasn't it?!

[Although I am keeping Pascal's: "If God does not exist, one will lose nothing by believing in Him, while if He does exist, one will lose everything by not believing"]

Blessings -- Brian
20 posted on 03/10/2003 10:31:51 PM PST by Brian Allen (This above all -- to thine own self be true)
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