heh .. those wacky french .. always parlez vous-ing all over the place. Todd
----- Original Message ----- From: "Angel Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 5:31 PM Subject: New phase of war in Afghanistan. > "French Intellectuals to be Deployed in Afghanistan to Convince Taliban > of Non-Existence of God. > > The ground war in Afghanistan heated up yesterday when the Allies > revealed plans to airdrop a platoon of crack French existentialist > philosophers into the country to destroy the morale of Taliban zealots > by proving the non-existence of God. > > Elements from the feared Jean-Paul Sartre Brigade, or 'Black Berets', > will be parachuted into the combat zones to spread doubt, despondency > and existential anomie among the enemy. Hardened by numerous > intellectual battles fought during their long occupation of Paris's Left > Bank, their first action will be to establish a number of pavement Cafes > at strategic points near the front lines. There they will drink coffee > and talk animatedly about the absurd nature of life and man's lonely > isolation in the universe. They will be accompanied by a number of > heartbreakingly beautiful girlfriends who will further spread dismay by > sticking their tongues in the philosophers' ears every five minutes and > looking remote and unattainable to everyone else. > > Their leader, Colonel Marc-Ange Belmondo, spoke yesterday of his > confidence in the success of their mission. Sorbonne graduate Belmondo, > a very intense and unshaven young man in a black pullover, gesticulated > wildly and said, "The Taliban are caught in a logical fallacy of the > most ridiculous. There is no God and I can prove it. Take your Tongue > out of my ear, Juliet, I am talking." > > Marc-Ange plans to deliver an impassioned thesis on man's nauseating > freedom of action with special reference to the work of Foucault and the > films of Alfred Hitchcock. However, humanitarian agencies have been > quick to condemn the operation as inhumane, pointing out that the > effects of passive smoking from the Frenchmens' endless Gitanes could > wreak a terrible toll on civilians in the area. > > Speculation was mounting last night that Britain may also contribute to > the effort by dropping Professor Stephen Hawking into Afghanistan to > propagate his non-deistic theory of the creation of the universe. Other > tactics to demonstrate the non-existence of God will include the > dropping of leaflets pointing out the fact that Michael Jackson has a > new album out." > > > -Gel ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
