The French

8Mud

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Been listening to CNN international and have noticed lately, at most every summit or multi national seminar. America has taken heat from the Frech on everything from AIDS in Africa to World hunger. Seems the French inuendo wants to blame the USA, for most of the worlds problems.
What I´d like to see, is some good French jokes. I figure my dislike of most anything French, may be helped with a little depreciating humor.
Anybody know any good French jokes suitible for the forum?
 
Question: How many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris?
Answer: Nobody knows. It's never been attempted.

Question: Why do they have trees growing along major streets in Paris?
Aswer: So that the Germans can march in the shade instead of the sun.
 
Kejtar said:
Question: How many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris?
Answer: Nobody knows. It's never been attempted.

Question: Why do they have trees growing along major streets in Paris?
Aswer: So that the Germans can march in the shade instead of the sun.

lame and lame.
 
The next time there is a war in Europe, the loser has to keep France.
David Letterman

Going to war without France is like going Deer hunting without your accordian.
Norman Swartzkopf

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks, it is a fine country. That has usually been governed by prostitutes.
Mark Twain
 
The people are actually a bit different than the gov't there. I took a class trip back in the summer of 99 and the people loved us. We got to be in Normandy on the anniversary of D-Day and there were more American flags flying there than you see here on the 4th of July. Lots of people struck up conversations with us and were just overall pretty friendly. The leadership may be a bunch of retards but the general populace seemed pretty American-friendly. It may have changed since then but I know back then everyone claimed they hated us too and it would've seemed the opposite to anyone who actually went there.
 
It depends on where you go. The first time I went to France I had the misfortune of being sent to paris, where there was a massive inferiority complex in evidence (paris-ites have never forgiven us for saving them from speaking German.)

I went again a couple years later and wound up in rural France (somewhere in the South - I don't quite recall at the moment, it's been a number of years) and I have to say that the rural French are really very good people. I guess there's something in the air in paris that makes them rotten. If I go to France again (probably in a moment of opacity - opposite of a moment of clarity) it will be rural France. I would like to stand on the beach at Normandy, just once. Just stand there, open my mind, and listen to history.

Still, there are parts of Europe I like better, and that's where I'm more likely to go.

Someone here had the sig line - "Oh, you're from Europe? Which part - the part whose ass we saved or the part whose ass we kicked?" The paris-ites just can't see their way to accepting that they're not speaking German because of us - but French in the South of France were willing to get out and HELP where they could! Big difference - just get out of the city.

Meanwhile, what's the first thing the French soldier learns in Boot?
How to surrender in fifteen languages.

5-90
 
The people in Paris were a bit more "gruff" than the Normands but that's generally true of any city vs country comparo. But then when we went, it was as a French class, so it probably helped that we spoke the language somewhat...:D
 
C'mon guys, I'm working really late, the least you could do is keep me properly entertained!
 
Hey I'm workin late too. Been here since 11pm and I'm gon be here til bout 9:30am
 
Served as a US Marine for 13 years and the French have some very good soldiers. For the most part they are hamstrung by their political system.

Sarge
 
I was in Paris with my 71 New Yorker and was sitting at a Cafe drinking coffee and watching the scenery (women). When I noticed a Citreon beating itself to death on the back bumper of my "War Wagon" in a (legal) parking spot. Walked over to watch, was pretty entertaining. French Policeman strolled over and started writing me a ticket; they sent me a bill and a ticket, for the damages to the Citreon, I´ve never paid. Guess I´m a wanted man in France.
 
8Mud said:
I was in Paris with my 71 New Yorker and was sitting at a Cafe drinking coffee and watching the scenery (women). When I noticed a Citreon beating itself to death on the back bumper of my "War Wagon" in a (legal) parking spot. Walked over to watch, was pretty entertaining. French Policeman strolled over and started writing me a ticket; they sent me a bill and a ticket, for the damages to the Citreon, I´ve never paid. Guess I´m a wanted man in France.

Isn't that Napolanic law, guilty till you prove your innocent ?
 
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