On Wednesday 12 March 2003 09:24 am, Sascha Noyes wrote: > You all have obviously not heard the news about french fries. In an > unbelievabla act of NewSpeak (read 1984!) some US politicians officially > renamed french fries to "freedom fries". And remember, if you don't call > them freedom fries you are unpatriotic and you shall be taken to Guantanamo > bay with all those other Taliban guys. > > <qoute> > Noting that French fries originated in Belgium, a French Embassy > spokeswoman did not seem amused. "I wonder if it's worth a comment," the > spokeswoman, Nathalie Loiseau, said. "Honestly. We are working these days > on very, very serious issues of war and peace, life or death. We are not > working on potatoes." </quote> > > read about it here: > http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=fries&btnG=Search+News (and then click > on the NYTimes report - none of the others mention the statement from > france. and by using google news you can avoid the stupid NYTimes sign in > crap.) > > -- > Please encrypt all correspondence. > PGP key available from: > http://individual.utoronto.ca/noyes/snoyes.asc
Despite what anyone thinks about this, it is very annoying to have it on this list. Please take this discussion elsewhere, it is innapropriate here. -- Greg
