Posted on 03/25/2006 11:24:00 AM PST by aculeus
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Never fear, it may be coming to a high-falutin' museum near you soon. The elite crowd loves stuff that's drooping-dead depressing.
I'll wear my my nice boots.
Well, I looked around a little, and came up with this surprising article:
"It looks like a political oxymoron, but Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front is poised to strike an alliance with France's large immigrant Muslim community."
http://www.nysun.com/article/27822
So, he is attempting to capitalize on the rioting, just not quite in the way I was envisioning.
Afraid he's right.
Everything I see in France is an offering from its past, not too much that is relevant to the present or the future.
Lots of interesting history, but not a lot of modern inventions or technology.
How sad.
I assume your post is an attempt to refute the idea that the French have no sense of humor. If you want me to evaluate the joke, you'll have to re-post in what Ernest-Antoine Seilliere called "the accepted language of business in Europe today."
btt
La joie nuit. It means, in English, "the joy harms".
Soon, they'll be screaming, "Vive le revolution!". Wonder who'll do the gruntwork?
Ah, c'est la vie. LOL/sarc.
Maybe the exhibit would cheer you up? :o
Il n'y a pas d'honte être français. Il y a seulement l'honte dans rester de français.
(There is no shame in being French. There is only shame in staying French.)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
How does one say "Sixth Republic" in mohammedan dynamist jingo? Can they even count to six?
Ipsos, a French polling institute, recently asked 500 people between the ages of 20 and 25 the question: "What does globalization mean to you?"
Forty-eight percent of those surveyed responded, "Fear."
Fear of what?
Just about everything, according to Christophe Lambert, author of another examination of contemporary France, "The Fearful Society." The country, he writes, is paralyzed by "fear of the future, fear of losing, fear of others, fear of taking a risk, fear of solitude, fear of growing old."
So, in other words, they have become so inured to the government's hand-holding and 'protection' that they are unable to face the demands of a more competitive global society?
The problem is that now they are accustomed to the government's guarantees, there is no easy way to remove that expectation.
Rough translation: An American asks a Japanese, "If it were announce that the world would end in a month, what would you do?" The Japanese responds, "I would become French." The American asks, "Why would you do that?" The Japanese responds, "Because the French are 20 years behind."
OK, that's a pretty good joke. So I'll modify. Either all of the French have some sense of humor, or some French have a fully-developed sense of humor.
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