Re: OT: Mildy OT: "Freedom kiss"?
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 12, 2003, 21:20 |
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From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
I'm with ya, Christophe... The "menu mutiny" was so puerile I cringed.
Roared with laughter first... then got angry. So will it be Freedom's
Mustard next? (you have to live over here and eat a lot of hot dogs to get
that joke!). I know they think it's "funny" in the White House, and a "f**k
you" to France, but on a symbolic level it is so appallingly indicative not
only of the vulgarity and black and white thinking, but the abysmal
ignorance of our leader's notion of cultural exchange and borrowing--and
foreign affairs in general. We didn't get French Fries from the French.
Nor did we get French Toast. God forbid that we should disapprove of
Belgium and have to change the name of Brussels sprouts to... "little
cabbages"! ;-) Which is what I think they call them over there. Maybe
they don't... I don't know. Choux de Bruxelles?
Maybe we could replace every foreign concept we don't like with the word
"freedom." French dressing. Freedom dressing! Arabic numerals. Freedom
numerals! Russian Roulette. Freedom Roulette! Oops, but that's a Freedom
borrowing, there.
> America decided to put a 100% tax on all products imported from
> France just because France refuses to buy American chicken (just because
France
> refuses to buy American chicken grown with hormones, something forbidden
in
> France and known to be dangerous for health). And after that they wonder
why
> France doesn't take America seriously :)) .
Yeah, well sometimes *I* can't take us seriously, Christophe.
Okay, enough politics for one day. Vyko karyts-jo.
Sally
scaves@frontiernet.net
Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo.
"My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."
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