Ç’est Si Bon

Jens_Hoppe · Post by **Jens_Hoppe** » Fri Feb 28, 2003 2:56 am

Hot damn, the sensible Americans have hijacked the thread. No flaming for me today.

Thanks Mike, Charles & the rest of you.

Jens

Zubivka · Post by **Zubivka** » Fri Feb 28, 2003 3:13 am

I bear no grudge against Bloomfield for starting this thread. I actually enjoyed reading his initial post.
I believe he was just pointing out to something peculiarly irrational, consequence of the large-scale brainwashing started by the major US media over its fellow consumers. At this level of press, a citizen is just considered as that by the Murdocks and alike: a consumer. But I digress.

Now I DO resent Bloom for not being able to spell the first out of three French words.

It's supposed to be "C'est si bon", no need for special keyboard and this flacid appendix dangling down the C, before an E.

Now for the cheerleaders (pom-pom guys?) who took Bloomfield for a signal to feed in cheap jokes they couldn't even invent themselves, I'm just sorry. BTW, it reveals a lot of their political maturity, and obviously the way they could behave in any mixed, non univocal society, like this microcosm here.
I just hope it's a consequence of the brainwashing. That would mean they can reconstruct some synapses, given time.

For myself, I try and take a rule of staying away from "ethnic" jokes. I read president JFK profoundly disliked them too. Doesn't make me a full fan of Camelot for that matter, but I like this trait.

And I'd rather have this example for a MisterPrez rather than the dubious Theodore Roosevelt, hero of an expansion war, and official father of the "New Imperialism". Also the President known for saying he didn't care about what people thought, but more about what they should think...

Why mention him? He was quoted here in a thread (after I vouched I'd stop participating). Aptly quoted, though, because it had to do with the doers and the talkers.

I don't believe those here clamoring for war, and having the nerve to comment over nations respective courage or cowardice, while not having seen the world, are much of doers.

Because if and when things go to worse, these self-proclaimed "courageous" Americans will cosily stay home. The worse is they may think this little Internet skirmish was their participation in the War Effort.

This reminds me of TV "sportsmen". I hope you enjoy watching the match; I guess you'll eat popcorn; I'm sure you'll yell "WE won".

Same thing as peep show or lichen addicts, in a way... Well, TV will be even better now : they'll very legally air, day after day, a gigantic "snuff" movie, with playbacks and slow motions.

See you around, kiddos. You can return play war in the courtyard, but just behave, dont't ruin your pants and don't hurt yourselves.

[ This Message was edited by: Zubivka on 2003-02-28 04:18 ]

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Fri Feb 28, 2003 3:30 am

Relax Zub. Anybody who can't figure out a patriotic term for a French kiss is not going to get very far with a whistle.

Roger O'Keeffe · Post by **Roger O'Keeffe** » Fri Feb 28, 2003 4:39 am

How about calling it a nationally-neutral but aulologically-inspired name that should appeal to Chifflers: a "conical-bore reamer"?

madguy · Post by **madguy** » Fri Feb 28, 2003 4:50 am

The "conical-bore" part sounds innocent enough - but, to me, the "reamer" part brings to mind another part of the anatomy...

~Larry

Kim in Tulsa · Post by **Kim in Tulsa** » Fri Feb 28, 2003 8:38 am

On 2003-02-27 19:04, mamakash wrote:
I'm afraid we'll have to boycott yogurt, too.

Yoplait is disgusting stuff anyway, don't you think? There's nothing as good as Brown Cow Whole Milk Yogurt with the layer of cream on the top!

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aderyn_du · Post by **aderyn_du** » Fri Feb 28, 2003 8:42 am

mmm... Brown Cow coffee yogurt... Yum!!! I just had one day before yesterday, actually.

::waves hi to Kim::

Andrea

Martin Milner · Post by **Martin Milner** » Fri Feb 28, 2003 8:47 am

On 2003-02-28 04:30, Wombat wrote:
Relax Zub. Anybody who can't figure out a patriotic term for a French kiss is not going to get very far with a whistle.

English Kiss = fractional raising of the right eyebrow, possibly accompanied by a discreet nod.

Actual lip-to-lip contact is unhealthy and spreads germs, but is accepted between consenting couples in the privacy of their own home, if they have been together at least ten years.

Kim in Tulsa · Post by **Kim in Tulsa** » Fri Feb 28, 2003 8:49 am

On 2003-02-28 09:42, aderyn wrote:
::waves hi to Kim::

Hello! Good morning! How is it in your part of the woods? A dreary day here, and since I have no Brown Cow (or Belgian waffles, or french toast for that matter), I'm chewing an oatmeal cookie for breakfast...my hubby brought it home from a conference he spoke at! LOL

I got another site for you...

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aderyn_du · Post by **aderyn_du** » Fri Feb 28, 2003 9:01 am

Hey Kim, you find the best quizzes.

Here is my result:

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Kim in Tulsa · Post by **Kim in Tulsa** » Fri Feb 28, 2003 9:05 am

On 2003-02-28 10:01, aderyn wrote:
Hey Kim, you find the best quizzes. Here is my result:

You had a better result than me! LOL Mine was pretty bleak. And to top it all off, my four year old absconded with my oatmeal cookie!

We'll just see if I throw myself between HIM and his daddy's javelin!

LOL, just kidding.

K

goesto11 · Post by **goesto11** » Fri Feb 28, 2003 4:37 pm

Zoob wrote:

BTW, it reveals a lot of their political maturity, and obviously the way they could behave in any mixed, non univocal society, like this microcosm here.

Zoob, you ever been to the US? Is your idea that it is a homogeneous, univocal society? Guess we'll have to give up that whole "melting pot" idea. :roll:

And I love the way the people who say they are through with this thread keep contributing. See what you started, Bloo?

John "Evil American" (oops, I think to some this is being redundant) Mac

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Paul Reid · Post by **Paul Reid** » Fri Feb 28, 2003 4:58 pm

I call them chips -- so there!

Celtoid · Post by **Celtoid** » Fri Feb 28, 2003 5:01 pm

Hummm...those bad, bad French people again. Let me seee... The Chinese don't want the war, the Indians don't want the war, the 114 Non-Aligned countries don't want the war, more than half of Americans don't want the war, a huge majority of Englishmen don't want the war...that adds up to about 97% of the world's population is against the war. Bush must be swaggering with the heart-thump of righteousness, knowing that we represent the 3% of the world that is right, as opposed to the 97% that is so obvioulsy wrong. Shoot the messenger! Those bad, bad, French, how dare they tell the king he has no clothes.