Why do we hate the french again? - Page 11

WabUfvot5 · 09-24-2005, 04:09 AM

Meet anybody from around Paris and you will know. I believe it happened with DeGaulle pumping up the citizens by letting them think they were the center of the world. Some of them truly believe that.

bargalunan · 09-24-2005, 08:11 AM

Salvador Dali said the center of the world was Perpignan station (city in south of France).
Even the genious can smoke too much.
Times are changing and France loses its magnificence. So sad...
If he was still alive he would say the new center of the world is Los Angeles.

bargalunan · 09-24-2005, 08:30 AM

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Originally Posted by dar512

Maybe the French would. Their tastes are different.

I'm not sure when I see the successful US singers, fastfood and films in France.
And we're going to elect a politician nearly as mad as Bush.

The cover is really awful, so sorry.

Griff · 09-24-2005, 08:45 AM

Aren't many of our jazz singer/musicians more successful in France than in the US?

bargalunan · 10-01-2005, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Griff

Aren't many of our jazz singer/musicians more successful in France than in the US?

There are a lot of jazz festivals in France. French are found of Jazz, especially middle and high social classes. I don't know if it's less or more important than in USA.
It's a tradition in France since 1920/30 when US jazz musicians (Ellington, Bechet, Armstrong (not Neil, neither Lance but Louis) were playing in Paris (Saint Germain).

wolf · 09-24-2005, 11:58 AM

That's not necessarily a good thing ... Donny Osmond, David Hasselhoff, Jerry Lewis ... you see what I mean?

Urbane Guerrilla · 09-26-2005, 05:12 PM

Hee hee, Barga.

My Muse ran out of gas before I could come up with anything as good as "Himmler -- his are dissimilar" for a third line -- that's my favorite version of the third line of The Colonel Bogey March (and you haven't lived until you've heard a Japanese JASDF military band playing it!). "And poor old Goebbels/Has no balls/At all" is pretty much an insert-name-here kind of line.

dar512 · 09-26-2005, 05:29 PM

Reminds me of the man from Rizes:

There once was a man from Rizes
Whose balls were of different sizes
One ball was so small
It was no ball at all
But the other won several prizes

bargalunan · 10-01-2005, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by wolf

That's not necessarily a good thing ... Donny Osmond, David Hasselhoff, Jerry Lewis ... you see what I mean?

I don't know who is Donny Osmond ?
David Hasselhoff : clean white smile, K2000, Alerte à Malibu (Malibu beach). I can't stand him, I prefer Pamela Anderson.
Jerry Lewis is nearly unknown for French who were born after the 70's.

richlevy · 10-01-2005, 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by bargalunan

I don't know who is Donny Osmond ?
David Hasselhoff : clean white smile, K2000, Alerte à Malibu (Malibu beach). I can't stand him, I prefer Pamela Anderson.
Jerry Lewis is nearly unknown for French who were born after the 70's.

I thought Hasselhoff was popular in Germany, not France.

BTW, just saw him in a cameo in "Dodgeball" on HBO, verbally castigating the German team for losing. Very funny movie.

09-24-2005, 08:11 AM	#2
bargalunan Abecedarian Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Nantes (France) Posts: 175	Salvador Dali said the center of the world was Perpignan station (city in south of France). Even the genious can smoke too much. Times are changing and France loses its magnificence. So sad... If he was still alive he would say the new center of the world is Los Angeles. Last edited by bargalunan; 09-24-2005 at 08:29 AM.

09-24-2005, 08:45 AM	#4
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Aren't many of our jazz singer/musicians more successful in France than in the US? __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

09-24-2005, 11:58 AM	#6
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	That's not necessarily a good thing ... Donny Osmond, David Hasselhoff, Jerry Lewis ... you see what I mean? __________________ 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

09-26-2005, 05:12 PM	#7
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Hee hee, Barga. My Muse ran out of gas before I could come up with anything as good as "Himmler -- his are dissimilar" for a third line -- that's my favorite version of the third line of The Colonel Bogey March (and you haven't lived until you've heard a Japanese JASDF military band playing it!). "And poor old Goebbels/Has no balls/At all" is pretty much an insert-name-here kind of line. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

09-26-2005, 05:29 PM	#8
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	Reminds me of the man from Rizes: There once was a man from Rizes Whose balls were of different sizes One ball was so small It was no ball at all But the other won several prizes __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

09-24-2005, 04:09 AM	#1
WabUfvot5 Operations Operative Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 634	Meet anybody from around Paris and you will know. I believe it happened with DeGaulle pumping up the citizens by letting them think they were the center of the world. Some of them truly believe that.

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