posted 03-17-2003 01:39 AM                    

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Can't our politicians find something better to do? For all those agreeing with the french fry renaming.. make sure you tell your representative to not eat their croissants in the morning, nor drink their champagne in the evening

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Yeah

There is even a lady whom I forgot the name, who wants bodies of dead WW2 American soldiers to be brought back to the US and buried (again) there. So I think France should do the same (remember Lafayette and friends two centuries ago) and the Statue of Liberty should be given back to France.

I think Disney executives should also stop holding their European premieres at the Rex theatre in Paris (which they love because it's Europe's largest cinema) and Steven Spielberg, a great admirer of the late director François Truffaut (who worked on Close Encounters) should say he made a mistake, all French suck, and he should never have worked with Truffaut.

As for boycott, I think there's nothing new with that. When I visited my Californian friends in 1998, some of their friends had travelled to Paris the year before, they stayed in an American hotel, had meals at McDonald's and spent their time at Disneyland Paris

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along with their caviar at the fancy dinners and fundraisers they go to.

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... and where they spend time on France-bashing speeches, standing next to their wives dressed with expensive Hermès scarves, Vuitton bags and Chanel suits

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Leo said Actually the French are doing something like that: I seem to remember a story in the paper a few weeks ago to the effect that the municipal authorities in Bordeaux had banned the use of English words in all publicly visible signage.

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posted 03-17-2003 03:06 AM                       

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Actually Leo this has nothing to do with the Iraq crisis. The French decided of this in the early 1990's to reduce the influence of foreign words in their language, and encouraged people to use French equivalent words.

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