Silly little Jacques

lookout123 · 04-01-2005, 03:10 PM

consumer demand should not triumph over good taste and cultural sophistication.

So Sayeth the French.

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President Jacques Chirac wants to stop this American cultural invasion by setting up a rival French search-engine. The idea was prompted by Google's plan to put online millions of texts from American and British university libraries. If English books are threatening to swamp cyberspace, Mr Chirac will not stand idly by.
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“I do not believe”, wrote Mr Donnedieu de Vabres in Le Monde, “that the only key to access our culture should be the automatic ranking by popularity, which has been behind Google's success.”

How dare the foolish users of search engines determine the ranking of responses? Good thing the French government is there to push back the encroachment of the English speaking world. Hell, if they don't take care of this soon, someone might google across the idea that France is way past her prime on the world scene.

warch · 04-01-2005, 04:49 PM

viva la difference.

xoxoxoBruce · 04-01-2005, 11:59 PM

I think the french language, culture and customs should be protected from the encroachment of the rest of the world, at all cost. They should build a big wall/fortification around the country for protection. Name it after some famous french hero like....oh...say........André Maginot.

Beestie · 04-02-2005, 12:21 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

[The French] should build a big wall/fortification around the country for protection.

I'd feel safer

wolf · 04-02-2005, 12:52 AM

Me too. If it was patrolled and electrified and stuff, like in Escape from New York, and they couldn't get out ...

jaguar · 04-02-2005, 04:40 AM

Chirac has always been fairly gaullist, this stuff is mostly for internal consumption only, like a lot of US politics.

Trilby · 04-02-2005, 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by jaguar

Chirac has always been fairly gaullist, this stuff is mostly for internal consumption only, like a lot of US politics.

OH, there ya go, throwing the US into it again! This is about FRANCE, Jag. FRANCE! Don't go diluting the blood of the faithful unwashed!

mrnoodle · 04-04-2005, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

They should build a big wall/fortification around the country for protection.

And fill it with water.

lumberjim · 04-04-2005, 10:38 AM

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Originally Posted by mrnoodle

And fill it with water.

or cheezwhiz......yeah, cheezwhiz.

lookout123 · 04-04-2005, 10:49 AM

or how about some sort of deodorent to keep the stink down?

04-01-2005, 11:59 PM	#3
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I think the french language, culture and customs should be protected from the encroachment of the rest of the world, at all cost. They should build a big wall/fortification around the country for protection. Name it after some famous french hero like....oh...say........André Maginot. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

04-02-2005, 12:52 AM	#5
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Me too. If it was patrolled and electrified and stuff, like in Escape from New York, and they couldn't get out ... __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

04-02-2005, 04:40 AM	#6
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	Chirac has always been fairly gaullist, this stuff is mostly for internal consumption only, like a lot of US politics. __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

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04-01-2005, 04:49 PM	#2
warch lurkin old school Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Minnesota Posts: 2,796	viva la difference.

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