From: Sonny Heath (sonny@defuniak.com)
Date: Sun Feb 12 2006 - 14:04:45 PST
Wine, I won't buy French Anything.
Sonny
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>I must have stumbled upon a thread of April Fool's Day messages. There's no
From: "Arthur Bloom" <m35prod@optonline.net>
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Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] la France oublie! Encore!
> way I could believe that the French are boorish, obnoxious, or unthankful.
> Shame on you all!
>
> apb
>
>
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> Subject: [MV] la France oublie! Encore!
>
>
> | ah TJ
> | but perhaps you will also remember how just a few
> | years ago, French poltiticians forgot the
> | international and historic significance of the area to
> | the west of Paris.. and how they wanted to pave over
> | the sites of some of the most famous WWI battlefields
> | to make way for a new airport to serve Paris..
> |
> | and IF i remember correctly it was economic factors
> | that put the project to rest and not really the
> | massive condemnation from other countries.
> |
> | Nige remember this? please refresh our memeories and
> | provide some more details of another example of that
> | "French Charm"...
> |
> | BTW- for our american friends, during D-Day +50,
> | several Canadian vets who had booked hotel rooms long
> | in advance of this historic occassion were
> | unceremoniously told just a couple weeks before their
> | flight, that their rooms were being taken over by
> | "officials" who wanted to attend. These men who had
> | sacrificied so much to save this "Foreign" country
> | (which could not save itself) were clearly told they
> | were SOL! "Please accept our apoliogies but you see
> | our hands are tied..zees politicians are obviously so
> | much more important than you...now please go away and
> | bother us no further.."
> | A huge outccry resulted, which involved some elbowing
> | by the Cdn government (only after they themselves had
> | been pushed by the public!) to get the French to back
> | down and give the veterans back they pre-booked rooms!
> | sheesh, and that's why I don't buy French wine..
> |
> | cheers
> | Monty
> |
> | --- timothy.smith1@att.net wrote:
> |
> | > I should rephrase. Sometimes I think some of the
> | > people of Europe would like nothing better than to
> | > erase from their social consciousness the memory of
> | > the sacrifices others made to help them stay free.
> | >
> | > There. That's a bit better.
> | >
> | > TJ
> | >
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> | > From: timothy.smith1@att.net
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> | > Subject: [MV] France forgets
> | > Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:32:21 +0000
> | > > Sometimes I think some (not all) of the people of
> | > Europe (particularly the
> | > > French) would like nothing better than to erase
> | > the memory of the sacrifices
> | > > others made to help them stay free from their
> | > social consciousness....and
> | > > they're starting with all those Historic Military
> | > Vehicles. Which French
> | > > political hacks are pushing this and what are
> | > their political backgrounds?
> | > >
> | > > Next thing you know, we'll be asked to remove our
> | > honored dead from European
> | > > soil.
> | > >
> | > > TJ
> | > >
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