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

[Miss Marple]

That is a disgusting comment. You have lost any credibility by equating the President and al Qaeda.

[Kip Lange]

No, we're talking about: Appeasement.

Sheesh. My comparison to Chamberlain is a stretch? They programmed you well. ;-)

[Burkeman1]

Hey! Cheap shot! What is yor problem with BC? Remember Flutie (prior to endorsing Hillary I mean)? What about that classic defeat of number one Nortre Dame with the Gordon field goal?

[Junior]

Yes. The author didn't do any research. He took the phrase "uttered on the Simpsons" and morphed it, like in a game of telephone.

[Burkeman1]

I am not equating them. I am just saying that Bush will be inadvertantly doing their recruitment work them. Sorry you didn;t see that was my intention.

[Burkeman1]

Whatever happened to Bush saying he wanted to get out of Kosovo? I remember him saying during the campaign that the United States should play a more humble role on the world scene? Though I would have voted for him anyway over Gore- that was one of the reasons I liked him so much.

[gridlock]

Primates capitulards et toujours en quête de fromages

Axe de faux jetons

Heh, heh.

They can't even get the insults right!

[Ron H.]

[metesky]

It could be worse: you could be a triple BC; BC High, BC and BC Law, totally lost to all rational thought and up to two quarts a day.
:O)

I remember seeing Flutie in a high school super bowl game. One of the best pure athletes I ever saw.

[Burkeman1]

Ah- I think you might be a bit resentful of BC alum influence in the New England region? Just a little? Let me guess? Holy Cross alum? Brandeis? Tufts? Or maybe a Hahhvarrd grad weeping for the lost power and glory?

[Kip Lange]

...although his brother Daryn (sp?) has always been said to be a much better overall athelete, even by Flutie himself. Met Flutie a few times. Class act. They still tell the story in my hometown of the infamous HS game where Flutie destroyed us so badly (in a nasty storm, too) that they sent all the Natick starters home on a bus at 1/2time and put in the JVs. And, of course, there's the "Flutie Tree" in Natick which all Natick HS players...er, hug, or something, can't remember...before a game.

[Kip Lange]

This UC *Berkeley* grad who grew up in NE and now lives in NE ain't afraid of BC influence, nor is he afraid of Berkeley influence, nor is he afraid of liberal indoctrination of all sorts. ;-)

[Burkeman1]

PS- Flutie played for Natick. My hometown team beat Natick after they had won two straight seasons undefeated and we had not had a winning season in years. There was a massive fight that night at the field between Wellesely and Natick kids. This was at least 5 or six years after Doug flutie had graduated- but I think Darren Flutie was on the team.

[Burkeman1]

Are you from Wellesley?

[metesky]

Darren was only a year or two behind Doug and in the super bowl game I saw (against Brockton, IIRC), Doug took the snap from center, rolled right, stopped and fired a behind the back pass the width of the field to Darren, who trotted unmolested into the end zone.

Greatest high school play I ever saw.

[Burkeman1]

Yeah- I think your right.

[Burkeman1]

PS- hate Brockton.

[Kip Lange]

Are you from Wellesley?

Maybe. ;-)

[Kip Lange]

*cough* Div I Superbowl champions in '93 *cough* *whistle* ;-)

[Kip Lange]

...broke the longest winning streak in HS history and got written up in SI for it...