Wimps, weasels and monkeys - the US media view of 'perfidious France'

Guardian ^ | 2/11/03 | Gary Younge in New York and Jon Henley in Paris

[BunnySlippers]

Good article. Bump.

[Burkeman1]

Wellesley was a GOP stronghold until my highschool days- then it changed. That was late 80's and early 90's.

[Kip Lange]

Yep- Old Roy did do that. But the Locke boys didn't like him- and I worked for them as well when Cheryl Jacques defeated their father. In fact- I worked for both at the same time and there was a lot of hate between the camps.

Aye, if you want to see ugly politics, MA is the place to be. Ugly, ugly, ugly. ;-)

Currently still ticked at the way Jim got schuffed off by Romney/Healey.

[Burkeman1]

Nope none. My turn- How about Berkery family? Or how about the Dowds?

[Burkeman1]

No- sorry.

[Kip Lange]

Uh, Berkery rings a bell, so does Dowd, but can't connect the names immediately. How about the Roys? (as in Arthur/John/etc)

...(katie berkery?)...

[Kip Lange]

Quinlan was almost Governor -- the whole Volpe thing...

[BlueLancer]

"Is this the part where we're all supposed to get together, hold hands, and sing "Kumbaya"? :-) "

No, but would you settle for MICHAEL ROW THE BOAT ASHORE

[Kip Lange]

Wait, you *must* know this one: LeBrun.

[Burkeman1]

John Roy- know the name well- was a bully and also a coward. He was a big guy. But from what I heard he backed down like a girl to the Moynihann brothers after him and some other loser tried to steal their sisters graduation keg. I also heard Roy and a kid called Muzzi backed down to a scrawney kid named Andy Jones at a keg party after they tried to threaten some younger kids at the keg. I know this because I saw it both times.

[Burkeman1]

Volpe- now where do I know that name? Victor?

[Kip Lange]

Yeah, John Roy was not a good boy in HS, but you'll be glad to hear he turned his life around and ended up going on to be an all-american wrestler at...dang, I forget the college. He truly cleaned his act up. Arthur is his father, and Arthur is a GREAT guy, and built the addition on my parents' house. :-)

I remember Greg Comella smashing somebody's head through those wire-window things in-between doors...before he transferred to Xaverian, that is.

[Burkeman1]

LeBrun? Nope. Know Quiggin or as we called him- Quiggs?

[Burkeman1]

Comella! I know that name- he did things at head of the Charles once that you don't wan't to know about!

[Kip Lange]

John Volpe. That was the convention where Quinlan almost took the nomination and ended up as Governor.

[Kip Lange]

Comella is now FB for the Tennessee Titans...and his little bro plays for BC, I think. ;-)

[Kip Lange]

(of course, none of this detracts from the fact that the French are still cheese-eating surrender monkeys :p)

[Kip Lange]

LeBrun = Nino LeBrun = Nino's = "The Linden Store" = best damn subs on the planet.

[Burkeman1]

Yes- they are- but still- they fooled us to protect them for 50 years and let them have 8 week vacations and make stupid movies about their complicated "relationships".

[Burkeman1]

Are you talking about the sub shop next to the barbor shop?