On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:14:43 -0500, Bruce Collins <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Denys Beauchemin" <[log in to unmask]> > >>Whilst I am the first one to refer to the French government over the last >century as a bunch of "brie-eating surrender monkeys," this in no way means >the individual French soldiers and officers are "poules mouillees." > >That's okay, on This Hour Has 22 Minutes (a Canadian satirical news show) >last night they referred to the Americans as, "the biggest crowd of >sanctimonious piss-pious, God-fathering, flag sucking friggers that ever >walked or crawled across the face of this planet.", but I'm sure that no >individual Americans would take offence. > Just as I take no offense when being called a kraut or pickelhelm. only when being called a "nazi" or similar things by the way, I like sauerkraut ;-) * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *