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2005-07-06 Europe

James Morrow: Gallic petulance too much to stomach

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Posted by anonymous5089 2005-07-06 08:22|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ...the only thing on the horizon for French pride for Chirac is Paris's bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games

Heh.

Posted by Howard UK 2005-07-06 09:44|| 2005-07-06 09:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Typical British understatement, Howard UK.

Let me Americanize that for you:

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2005-07-06 10:04|| 2005-07-06 10:04|| Front Page Top

#3 No 2012 olympics to sooth our long-suffering pride. Nothing but woe and despair now.

Posted by PepeLePeu 2005-07-06 10:04|| 2005-07-06 10:04|| Front Page Top

#4 I wonder how the two Finnish members of the selection committee voted.... ;)

Poor Jacques keeps missing good opportunities to shut up.

Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-07-06 10:31|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2005-07-06 10:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Tony Blair should send him a batch of kidney pies merged into the Olympic ring pattern.

Posted by Tom 2005-07-06 10:44|| 2005-07-06 10:44|| Front Page Top

#6 You're a complete loser, France. You don't even get a year's supply of Rice-a-Roni, the San Francisco treat.

Posted by BH 2005-07-06 11:08|| 2005-07-06 11:08|| Front Page Top

#7 When will France stop having such a hard time believing that the world detests them even more than they detest themselves?

Their foul-honking, fowl-beaked leader, Chirac, had a less than 28% approval polling domestically. And that was before he pissed away this desperately sought Olympic welfare check with his formula chauvanistic pomposity.

There is always the Bizarre Foodstuffs Olympics for the misfit French to vie for. But those damned Chinese will probably beat them out of that one, too. Better to deploy your Minister of Surrender next time.

Posted by Rufus Lee King 2005-07-06 13:34|| 2005-07-06 13:34|| Front Page Top

#8 In Heaven you are greeted by the British, cooked for by the French, organized by the Germans and provided fun and games by the Italians.

In Hell you are greeted by the French, cooked for by the British, organized by the Italians, and provided fun and games by the Germans.

Posted by Rufus Lee King 2005-07-06 13:51|| 2005-07-06 13:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Hell has Russian TeeVee and Cigarette.
Heaven Russian parties and spring vegetables.

Posted by Shiipman 2005-07-06 16:53|| 2005-07-06 16:53|| Front Page Top

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