my turn to say DOH! shouldve put a smiley at the end of that tirade.... :)
i got your humor the first time around, and just answered the same way... you
know, if we cant laugh at ourselves a bit, then we dont deserve to point a
finger at others. I shouldve added thestinky cheese and the underarm baguette
as well...mightve been a bit more obvious.....sorry!
you know, quebec is just up north of you guys, so dont worry, im exposed enough
not to take offense.....and quebec ladys are quite good looking to ;) (even
though im married to a japanese.....)
cheers, and hope your beer is as good as mine! > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
[email protected]> Subject: Apology for/explanation of rant,
was Re: What do you guys listen to? :)> Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 14:10:47 -0500> >
On Sunday 02 December 2007, greg emond wrote:> > > I am french, and the first
joke was very funny. The seond one was... THE> > truth! I will lift my arms and
kill you all with the toxic fumes that> > emanate from there! vive le quebec
libre!> > I shouldn't have gone there, but since I did, and since a fair number
of > people really don't seem to get it, I feel I should point out for any >
non-American friends who didn't grasp the irony that the whole rant > was
"acted out" by a stereotypical insular American with no idea what's going > on
outside this country's borders. It was all a laugh at the worst my > country
has to offer on the world stage, not at anyone outside these borders > at all,
and most especially not French people. (Je parle français aussi, mon > ami,
bien que je le parle très mal.) [TRANSLATION OF FRENCH TEXT: I speak > French
too, my friend, though I speak it very badly.]> > So anyone in the audience who
isn't American should point at us and laugh, and > anyone who lives inside
these borders should look around and laugh. We're > not all like that, but some
of us really are.> > But the whole thing was really a horrible public exhibit
of why I spent a > significant part of my childhood getting beaten up by
somebody. Lots of > people don't get my twisted sense of humor at all, and
especially not in an > environment where most readers speak English as a second
language, and > haven't spent as many hours as I have watching Monty Python,
South Park, > Carlos Mencia, and weirdly twisted French and Spanish movies.> >
Sorry about all the noise everybody. I just want to make sure there are no >
hard feelings.> > If necessary, I'll call Dad over to come hold my head in the
toilet and get > one of my kids to take a picture of me getting a good old
fashioned American > swirly. That is if the old man is strong enough to lift my
stereotypically > overweight American truck driving redneck ass that high.> --
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