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Hmm... Oh.. "Freedom Fries" made me want to kill people. For so many reasons.It seemed like insignificant posturing to me and I ignored it, as I chose to become an American citizen decades ago, regardless of my French/Irish/Scottish/etc. background.
Then I got an earful on the phone from my grandmother, who'se been an American citizen for fifty-plus years, and is still married to the WW2 vet who got her out of post-occupation France, and heard her loud and fiery opinion of people who called the French 'cheese-eating surrender monkeys' and apparently forgot which country it was that sent an army to help some upstart colonials shake off British rule.
Of course we payed them back, with interest by breaking the stalemate in WWI and making sure they did not speak German and salute the Nazi flag after WWII. That's just my opinion.
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Of course we payed them back, with interest by breaking the stalemate in WWI and making sure they did not speak German and salute the Nazi flag after WWII. That's just my opinion.
As you are replying to a post I made where I specifically mentioned that a WW2 vet got my grandma out of post-occupation France, I might have heard of that war somewhere. I'm not sure why you think you need to qualify that as 'your opinion' when it's the same thing I just said, or you feel it necessary to educate me on something that I already said, and, oh look, I even qualified at the end that we didn't owe them squat, because they did it to tweak the noses of the Brits more than out of any great favor to us.
Actually, given your response, and re-reading my post, you clearly didn't read it anyway, since you have decided to post a rebuttal that agrees with what I was saying. Clearly it's something personal, and I apologize for pissing in your Cheerios.
I guess, since we also saved the Brits butts in that war, we should have a Senate resolution to change the 'English language' to the 'Freedom language.' Perhaps we should abandon the English system of measurement and go metric as well, that would teach them!
Exactly what it would teach them, I'm not sure, but it would be the same thing we taught the French when we voted to call French fries 'Freedom Fries.' That entirely too many people in our Senate get paid to be idiots and waste our tax dollars thumping their chests and appealing to the lowest common denominator...
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Edited to remove smurfy comments which I then though better of. I am sorry I offended you. Please accept my apology as I did not mean in any way to offend you. I did read your entire post and it was quite well written, I was simply trying to add emphasis to what you had said. If I insulted or offended you in anyway, again I apologize.
Being that french fries aren't French. I found Freedom Fries even more ignorant.
Usually when someone started spouting off about the French I simply told them that they were right. The French suck. We should never do business with them again and all past dealings should be overturned. Which usually got a resounding ya! the French suck! Then, having baited the ignorant zealot I would say, yes! Lets start off by giving back the statue of liberty - that ended the discussion on how the French "suck"
Edit: Sorta as most of the time I would have to educate them on where we got the Statue of Liberty and why.
Meh, they can have the statue. Of course I would not want to give back the support they gave us back in 1776.
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Being that french fries aren't French. I found Freedom Fries even more ignorant.
It also showed a complete lack of historical knowledge. The original use of "freedom" anything came in World War I when saurkraut was renamed freedom cabbage and hamburgers were called freedom sandwichs because people wanted to seperate them from their German saounding names, since we were in fact at war with Germany. Calling french fries, freedom fries, and french toast, freedom toast, implied that France was actually our enemy, when we actually just had a difference of opinion with them.
It also showed a complete lack of historical knowledge. The original use of "freedom" anything came in World War I when saurkraut was renamed freedom cabbage and hamburgers were called freedom sandwichs because people wanted to seperate them from their German saounding names, since we were in fact at war with Germany. Calling french fries, freedom fries, and french toast, freedom toast, implied that France was actually our enemy, when we actually just had a difference of opinion with them.Being that french fries aren't French. I found Freedom Fries even more ignorant.
If you are not with us, then you are against us. ;)
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It also showed a complete lack of historical knowledge. The original use of "freedom" anything came in World War I when saurkraut was renamed freedom cabbage and hamburgers were called freedom sandwichs because people wanted to seperate them from their German saounding names, since we were in fact at war with Germany. Calling french fries, freedom fries, and french toast, freedom toast, implied that France was actually our enemy, when we actually just had a difference of opinion with them.Being that french fries aren't French. I found Freedom Fries even more ignorant.
The thing I don't understand is that during WWI, dachshunds were renamed "liberty pups". Why didn't they rename French poodles? You know, for the sake of continuity.
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If you are not with us, then you are against us. ;)It also showed a complete lack of historical knowledge. The original use of "freedom" anything came in World War I when saurkraut was renamed freedom cabbage and hamburgers were called freedom sandwichs because people wanted to seperate them from their German saounding names, since we were in fact at war with Germany. Calling french fries, freedom fries, and french toast, freedom toast, implied that France was actually our enemy, when we actually just had a difference of opinion with them.Being that french fries aren't French. I found Freedom Fries even more ignorant.
More like "If you are not with U.S, then you are against U.S."
*licks David Fryer*
*Grabs the anti-venom*
That's not anti-venom.
Only in your very small mind, doggy boy. Bask in the radiant brilliance that is me.
I am not the one pretending to be someone else.
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It also showed a complete lack of historical knowledge. The original use of "freedom" anything came in World War I when saurkraut was renamed freedom cabbage and hamburgers were called freedom sandwichs because people wanted to seperate them from their German saounding names, since we were in fact at war with Germany. Calling french fries, freedom fries, and french toast, freedom toast, implied that France was actually our enemy, when we actually just had a difference of opinion with them.Being that french fries aren't French. I found Freedom Fries even more ignorant.
It's sad that a lot of American-German culture was lost around those times. Some names went back like sauerkraut but a lot of other things didn't.
All others are pretenders, I am the One True Sebastian ;p
For that you would need to be Bella Sara subscriber. It's like watermark to separate forgeries.
Sorry to take you all away from your delightful banter; however, I keep seeing OP used and the best I could figure was "other post".
Am I even close?
By the bye, I enjoyed the reference to the Panda--my office mates looked at me as I laughed.
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Sorry to take you all away from your delightful banter; however, I keep seeing OP used and the best I could figure was "other post".
Am I even close?
By the bye, I enjoyed the reference to the Panda--my office mates looked at me as I laughed.
Original Post(er), depending on the way it's used in the sentence.
Edit: HA!
Sorry to take you all away from your delightful banter...
How dare you un-thread-jack! Where are my poodle minions when I need them?!
*to poodles*
Hey! Hey! Stop licking yourself and get over here!
Sorry Master, the licking was getting too good and I got distracted
What's thy biding?
Sorry Master, the licking was getting too good and I got distracted
What's thy biding?
*licking myself*
Mmp? Back to licking then
*continues licking himself*
*licking myself more loudly*
*licks Crimson Jester in the face*
Love me...
Please???
Nobody else will...
I'm so alone...
I'm so alone...
You certainly are.
You certainly are.
You feel my pain. Being me and all.
*humps Court Fool*
*humps Court Fool*
*humps CourtFool*
*Lets Get It On by Gaye Marvin begins playing in the background*
...This...I have no comment...
FTW!
*humps Court Fool**humps CourtFool*
*Lets Get It On by Gaye Marvin begins playing in the background*
I'm a poodle hate/lover... but this is trying my limits tooo hard.....
*close my eyes and shiver*
...This...I have no comment...FTW!
*smoking a cigarette*
Victory is mine!
*pokes the poodle lord to see if everything's "ok"*
Errr...My lord? Are you ok?
At the risk of sounding like an idiot...
what's crunch & fluff mean??
Crunch is something related to the rules, numbers, technical.
Fluff is something purely evocative, descriptive, with no rules reference.
Saying that elves get +2 to Dex and -2 to Con is crunch.
Saying they are agile, graceful and often live in deep forests, in harmony with nature is fluff.
Thank you!
Fluff is something purely evocative, descriptive, with no rules reference.
Or a poodle.
