On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:44:02 -0800, Miller, Jeffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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At 21:44 14-03-03 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
If France can prevent the war from happening, than it *has* effectively
protected American soldiers. After all, when there is no war, the risk to
a soldier's life is significantly less than when that soldier goes into combat.
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At 14:32 14-03-03 -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
[The French] actively support a brutal dictator.
I
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Miller, Jeffrey wrote:
One thing that I especially love about the whole freedom foods
stuff
Someone said:
Someone on another mailing list told me that prior to one of
the World Wars, it had been called German toast. I have
done no research to verify; does anyone here know? And I
think my response was, Why don't we just call it 'European toast'?
Euro-toast!
Marvin Long
At 11:58 13-03-03 -0800, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
France has been protected by the United States for almost a century
now. The moment it no longer needs that immediate protection - the
overriding and _publicly stated_ goal of French policy becomes to weaken
the United States.
Not *weaken* it,
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At 11:58 13-03-03 -0800, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
France has been protected by the United States
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 11:33:49 -0800, Miller, Jeffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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1) For French fries:
They're not particularly French. I think McDonald's just calls them
fries without any additional adjective. Just call them fries,
unless they're the superior steak fries, and call those
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On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 11:33:49 -0800, Miller, Jeffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
1) For French fries:
They're not particularly French. I think McDonald's just calls them
fries without any additional adjective. Just call them fries,
unless
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On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 11:33:49 -0800, Miller, Jeffrey
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On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:03:03 -0800, Miller, Jeffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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How about this - historically speaking, french fries aren't French in
origin. :D
OK. I'll try again. I just figured something out. It's something of a
language thingy. Frietes (Belgian/Dutch for fries) the fried
S.V. van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
GCU What are Ham waffles?
Waffles that are awful actors? :D
Waffles are nice. Old bread dipped in eggs milk, then fried in a pan, is
*really* nice. And topping it with blueberry stuff is *extremely* nice. :)
(Waffles with blueberry topping are also
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From: S.V. van Baardwijk-Holten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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French-bashing)
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:03:03 -0800, Miller, Jeffrey
At 14:32 14-03-03 -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
[The French] actively support a brutal dictator.
I think it's quite odd that the US suddenly seems it fit to criticise an
other country for supporting Saddam Hussein, when that very same US has
done the exact same thing...
And it's not like American
Miller, Jeffrey wrote:
Trivia - the potato chip was actually invented in France by a cook who had an
American (or was it british..) customer who kept sending back his fried potato dish,
demanding thinner and thinner slices of potato..
I heard the same thing, but set elsewhere, so I googled
At 14:44 14-03-03 -0800, Jeffrey Miller wrote:
Trivia - the potato chip was actually invented in France by a cook who had
an American (or was it british..) customer who kept sending back his fried
potato dish, demanding thinner and thinner slices of potato..
Ah! So *that* is why the French and
At 23:17 14-03-03 +0100, Sonja van Baardwijk wrote:
(any one wanne translate 'zuurdesem brood'?)
According to Euroglot: sourdough bread.
(My son disagrees, but I think that eventually he'll grow out of his to
date much beloved liquid porridge breakfast)
Oh, so now it's *your* son, huh? The
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At 14:44 14-03-03 -0800, Jeffrey Miller wrote:
Trivia
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From: J. van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If France can prevent the war from happening, than it *has* effectively
protected American soldiers. After all, when there is no war, the risk to
a
soldier's life is significantly less than when that soldier goes into
Here's the opinion of someone bothered by the French-bashing jokes
currently prevalent in the US:
http://www.austin360.com/auto_docs/epaper/editions/thursday/life_entertainment_1.html
Julia
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Julia
But, Julia, this article was absurd. The criticism of
France isn't because they disagree with us. The
Russians disagree with us - no one is going around
making Russian jokes. The criticism is
Gautam,
I didn't say I agreed with the article. I just put it out there for
commentary. I thought of some of your points as I was reading it in the
print paper earlier today.
I'm wondering what everyone *else* thinks.
Myself, I'm mostly disturbed by the fact that the entire French people
is
--- Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gautam,
I didn't say I agreed with the article. I just put
it out there for
commentary. I thought of some of your points as I
was reading it in the
print paper earlier today.
I'm wondering what everyone *else* thinks.
Myself, I'm mostly
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From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 12:59 PM
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Subject: Re: Commentary on French-bashing
Gautam,
I didn't say I agreed with the article. I just put it out
there for commentary. I thought
At 02:58 PM 3/13/03 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
Maybe they [the French people]
don't make sense all the time, but they can make a good wine. Maybe the
two are connected? ;)
When talking about the constellations in class, particularly how it is so
hard to make _anything_ out of the bunch of
Miller, Jeffrey wrote:
One thing that I especially love about the whole freedom foods
stuff, is that neither French Fries or French Toast are particularly
French...
1) For French fries:
They're not particularly French. I think McDonald's just calls them
fries without any additional
At 06:31 PM 3/13/03 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
French vanilla ice cream, you can have, I'll take Homemade vanilla. :)
Me, too.
And as I've said before, the only thing French I'd be really worried about
if they ban it is the kissing . . .
Mind In Gutter Maru
-- Ronn! :)
Your message
At 06:49 PM 3/13/2003 -0600, you wrote:
At 06:31 PM 3/13/03 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
French vanilla ice cream, you can have, I'll take Homemade vanilla. :)
Me, too.
And as I've said before, the only thing French I'd be really worried about
if they ban it is the kissing . . .
Mind In
At 04:25 PM 3/13/2003 -0600, you wrote:
At 02:58 PM 3/13/03 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
Maybe they [the French people]
don't make sense all the time, but they can make a good wine. Maybe the
two are connected? ;)
When talking about the constellations in class, particularly how it is so
hard
Guatam wrote:
Many of my friends who strongly oppose the war
_loathe_ France, and will quite openly say that,
because, even though they agree with France's
position, its tactics and language have been those of
enemies, not allies.
This is really interesting. On the opposite
side, many of my
--- Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Then there are people like me, who are all over the
spectrum when you measure the spectrum in
traditional
liberal vs. conservative terms, who agree or
disagree
with this war for a variety of reasons. I've seen
this
debate onlist cast more and
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