Re: OT: Mildy OT: "Freedom kiss"?

On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 08:25:59PM -0600, Peter Clark wrote:
> It's nice to know that in an age where there are so many important
> things to be concerned about, the U.S. House of Representatives is busy
> making a fool of itself:
> http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/11/sprj.irq.fries/index.html
ROTFL!!!!!

And who is it but US musicians who insists that horns are French horns,
whereas on saner continents they are just Horns, as they should be.

> For you history buffs, you will remember that back during WWI, lots of
> German-sounding things were renamed; sauerkraut became "liberty
> cabbage," frankfurter became "liberty sausage," hamburger became
> "liberty meat,"  etc.  Now, apparently, the French are the New Germans;
> we cannot have "french" fries or "french" toast (both, IIRC, have been
> discussed on this list before); nay, dear friends, we must have "freedom
> fries" and "freedom toast."
Now if people would stop attributing the horn to the French (even though I
have nothing against French musicians) and the cor anglais to the
English... I know! I should start a movement by writing a symphony using
Liberty Horns and cor libertais. :-P

> My response: if it was stupid then, it's no less stupid now.
> Nevertheless, the games that politicians play with language can
> be...amusing...at times.
[snip]

I find politics in general ridiculous. After all...

We don't like their leader, so we'll "protect" them until they elect
somebody we like. Stop calling it "aggression" --- we hate that
expression! --- we hate the thought of war, we'd rather kill 'em off by
peaceful means! After all, they own a box of dangerous-looking
toothpicks^H^H^H^H^HI mean, missiles, and who knows, maybe they're in
league with Al Qaeda! Maybe they sold their souls to the devil! Maybe
they're lurking in your backyard to kidnap your children! They're
terrorists!

Nevermind the fact that they've been backed into a corner, and it's
us^H^HI mean, US, who's developing bombs to scare the pants off their
subjects so that they'll get overthrown. After all, we're for liberty! We
must terrorize^H^H^H^H^HI mean, *pressure*, those terrorists so that
they'll stop electing people we don't like^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H I mean,
oppressing their own people!


T

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