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Imported French Products Questions.
Posted on 03/10/2003 6:03:08 PM PST by ConservativeMan55
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To: Archie Bunker on steroids
No but LaFuma makes these damn chairs that are imported from France!
To: Thane_Banquo
If you can't pronounce it, it is probably french.
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posted on
03/10/2003 6:27:00 PM PST
by
irishtenor
(Red Green is my hero.)
To: ConservativeMan55
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posted on
03/10/2003 6:27:42 PM PST
by
GreyWolf
(You don't have to be a Boy Scout to Be Prepared!)
To: GreyWolf
She doesn't want to go back! She likes it better over here!!!
To: irishtenor
To: ConservativeMan55
add also: Fauchon (tea and chocolates)
To: Rebelbase
Seagrams is French, as are Accor hotels
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posted on
03/10/2003 6:35:23 PM PST
by
rocky88
To: ConservativeMan55
Most of them are no concern to me. I don't use products or services I can't pronounce.
One thing though, with Motel 6 named there goes the Day Rates in the Red Light Districts.
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posted on
03/10/2003 6:35:24 PM PST
by
YOMO
To: YOMO
1972 Porsche's were all "Made in France"
To: ConservativeMan55
To: ConservativeMan55
To: ConservativeMan55
To: ConservativeMan55
I must give up Grand Marnier for my country.
To: ConservativeMan55
This morning O'reilly said that Universal studio and products, tours is French owned. I didn't see it listed on this threads, so I will check it out further.
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posted on
03/10/2003 6:46:43 PM PST
by
AuntB
(Saddam IS a WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION!!)
To: Steven W.
I found out that there is cows blood in French Wine.
To: AuntB
I don't go to see movies anyways. There might be a possibility that Universal Studios makes TV shows as well. We should find out what TV shows are helped financed by the French.
To: ConservativeMan55
To: ConservativeMan55
Boycott all these French products below!
Ambroise Paré (1510-1590): surgical instruments Blaise Pascal: mechanical calculator (1642) Metric system, proposed by Gabriel Mouton in 1670, worked out by the French Academy of Sciences in 1790 Nicolas Joseph Cugnot: steam-driven car (1769) George Louis Lesage used a single wire system to telegraph a message (1774) Joseph M.Jacquard - first industrially applicable automatic loom (late 18th century) Montgolfier (Joseph and Etienne): the hot-air balloon (1783) Louis Lenormand: the parachute (1783) Jean Baptiste Meusnier: lighter-than-air dirigible developed (1785) Claude Chappe: optical system telegraph (1791) Nicolas Appert - invented our canning process involving bactericide by boiling (1810) René T.H. Laennec - invented the stethoscope (1816) Joseph L. Gay-Lussac (1778-1850), chemist: the hydrometer and alcoholometer Jean-François Champollion - first deciphered the Rosetta Stone(1822) Louis Braille: printed language for the blind (1829) Joseph N.Niepce: the principle of the photographic process (1826) Xavier Progin (1833): a machine that used separate type bars for each letter or symbol that were activated by separate lever keys (forerunner of typewriter) Daguerre, Louis J. improved and patented photographic process (1839) French physicist Jean Foucault: the gyroscope (1852) Henri Deville: invented electrolysis to refine aluminum from bauxite (1852) Henri Giffard, engineer: first successful steam-powered steerable airship (1852) Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville: Phonautographe:1st machine to record sound (1857), with no playback Raymond Gaston Planté: the lead-acid battery (1860) Rouquayrol and Denayrouse: hard-hat deep-sea diving (1865) Pierre Lallement: rotary-pedal bicycle (1865) Frères Michaux: steam-driven bicycle (1868) Chemist Mège Mouriés: margarine (1869) Charles Cros (& Edison) simultaneously invented the phonograph (1877) Lumière brothers: first movie camera (1895) René Panhard & Emile Levassor: prototype for modern car (front engine, pedal clutch, 4 wheels, etc. - 1895) Jean J.E. Lenoir (1822-1900): the first practical internal combustion engine French engineer and chemist Georges Claude: the neon lamp (1902) Paul Cornu (1907): short flight of first helicopter prototype Edouard Benedictus: the process for making laminated safety glass (1909) Henri-M. Coanda: turbine engine airplane (1910) George de Mestral: the hook and loop fabric fastener system, Velcro (1941) Emile Gagnan and Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau: "Aqua Lung" for scuba diving (1943) Arthur Granjean: Etch-A-Sketch [toy] in 1958 François Gernelle: the first non-kit computer based on a microprocessor (1973) Philippe Kahn: the software or operating system for the above microcomputer Roland Moreno: the concept of installing silicon chip computer memory on a plastic card (1974) French launch Minitel (1980), first major public interactive computer network Robert Cailliau and Jean-François Groff, Swiss francophone co-inventors of the WWW with Tim Berners-Lee (1992) ATM asynchronous transfer mode - high-speed internet (not sure of details)
To: ConservativeMan55
1972 Porsche's were all "Made in France" .....................................
I should have added Can't afford to my list.
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posted on
03/10/2003 8:27:11 PM PST
by
YOMO
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