From: Glen Closson (glen_closson@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Feb 17 2006 - 09:06:13 PST
I think you made this up. :)
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>Subject: [MV] How it happened
>
>France's law-making body, "Les Follies", today formally admitted their proposal
>to ban private ownership of all historic former military vehicles was based on
>an idea they borrowed from a film produced in the United States in the late
>1960's. Well known for its violent and bloody story line, the American film was
>viewed in a private showing to Les Follies, who were preparing to reaffirm the
>legal foundations supporting the traditional French means of avoiding violence
>which is by means of immediate formal capitulation or by formally capitulating
>on a regular basis to no one in particular.
>
>The film, TRUE GRIT (1969), was written by Margeurite Roberts, a blacklisted
>writer of that era. Beloved American tough-guy actor, John Wayne, plays the
>main character, Marshall Rooster J. Cogburn, a hard-as-nails dispenser of
>frontier justice, out to catch a cold-blooded killer. The killer, Lucky Ned
>Pepper (Robert Duval) has taken refuge in the territory Cogburn serves. On his
>journey, Cogburn finds himself accompanied by a young woman, Mattie Ross (Kim
>Darby) and handsome Texas Marshall La Boeuf (Glen Campbell). Each character
>pursues the killer for his/her own reasons.
>
>In a key scene where Mattie Ross looks on as the lawmen engage in a wild
>shoot-out with Lucky Ned Pepper and his gang of desperados, Marshall LaBoeuf
>shoots a horse from beneath Pepper, killing it. In a later scene, Marshall
>Cogburn introduces La Boeuf as "The great horse-shooter from Texas." Cogburn
>continues the introduction with, "He believes in putting everyone afoot...says
>there'll be less mischief that way.."
>
>Senior members of Les Follies stated (with an outrageous French accent), "It
>waas quiet zee revelation for us. Unteel zen, all we cood doo waas to
>con-seeder how to queekly giff zee tradeetional Frrrench capitulation. Zee
>charachter La Boeuf ees wreeten by zee woomaan Margeurite! Both goo-ood French
>names, no? Zees makes zem connected in zee special way. It was at zees mo-ment
>we knew ex-zactly what was re-quir-ed to keep our glorious France safe for zee
>men, zee women and zee cheel-dren. We maast poot ef-verywon on foo-oot to make
>less zee miss-cheef! Zees weel esure our saf-ety. Vive la FRANCE!"
>
>It remains to be seen what effect this law, if enforced, will have on French
>national security.
>
>
Regards,
Glen
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