France: A History in Pictures (1307 hits)
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Submitted by Le Goût des Singes (View user info) at 2007-01-25 14:10:36 EST
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Submitted by FartSmeller (user info) at 2007-04-11 13:48:43 EDT (#)
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par exellence
Submitted by odin (user info) at 2007-03-19 06:13:09 EDT (#)
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Submitted by diavola (user info) at 2007-02-22 04:25:55 EST (#)
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Fucking hilarious as always. One of my favourite users.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2007-01-29 22:23:12 EST (#)
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and i think the award for stupidity in WWII goes to the theory of appeasement.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2007-01-29 22:22:09 EST (#)
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Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-01-26 16:02:36 (#)
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Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2007-01-25 23:56:02 (#)
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oh and btw, this historical misconception irritates me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maginot_Line#The_Legacy_of_the_Line (i post this to poke jack's severe francophobia)
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what misconception? This paragraph you cite is factually correct.
France was trying to fight World War One, and the Nazis were fighting World War Two.
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the general misconception that the french didn't know the germans would go around the line. it's historically wrong and idiotic as the line was designed especially to repeat the Schieffen plan.
the french, and british btw, were stupid for writting off the Ardennes as a point of entry. for this, the majority of their best units, which armor was superior to german's, was left cut off and impotent.
so you can laugh at the french performance all you want, though i wonder how you american keyboard warriors would've performed, but please laugh at something that is historically correct.
and open a book from time to time, for it is aggravating to see grown ups argue stuff that is taught in 8th grade.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2007-01-29 22:10:21 EST (#)
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Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2007-01-26 11:40:17 (#)
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Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2007-01-26 09:56:46 (#)
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http://www.ubersite.com/m/98044#2290466
what i said
OMG! I OWNED YOU!
ahem...yeah. have a good week end, i am out
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Yeah Caul. That's what I said too. I just said it before you.
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no, you said that cake was cheap bread as in some kind of weird translation.
stop trying to mask your ignorance with nonsense like when you said that i misunderstood you when you clearly think that the allies were oblivious to the fact the germans were coming through the low lands, when they knew they were because that's what the line was supposed to do.
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2007-01-26 18:42:45 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-01-26 16:02:36 EST (#)
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Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2007-01-25 23:56:02 (#)
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oh and btw, this historical misconception irritates me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maginot_Line#The_Legacy_of_the_Line (i post this to poke jack's severe francophobia)
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what misconception? This paragraph you cite is factually correct.
France was trying to fight World War One, and the Nazis were fighting World War Two.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2007-01-26 11:40:17 EST (#)
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Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2007-01-26 09:56:46 (#)
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http://www.ubersite.com/m/98044#2290466
what i said
OMG! I OWNED YOU!
ahem...yeah. have a good week end, i am out
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Yeah Caul. That's what I said too. I just said it before you.
Submitted by DrogoRoch (user info) at 2007-01-26 10:52:35 EST (#)
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Hahahahahaha
* Breath *
Hahahahahaha
B@W
Submitted by drgoatcabin (user info) at 2007-01-26 10:35:48 EST (#)
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Fire ze missiles!!
but I am tired...
Well, take a le nap....Zen fire ze missiles!!!
Submitted by hot_pocket (user info) at 2007-01-26 10:35:33 EST (#)
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+2Lascaux
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2007-01-26 10:01:21 EST (#)
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ps. the actual translation should be LET THEM EAT CINNAMON BUNS! but it's too long for the anglo pigs. :-D
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2007-01-26 09:56:46 EST (#)
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http://www.ubersite.com/m/98044#2290466
what i said
OMG! I OWNED YOU!
ahem...yeah. have a good week end, i am out.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2007-01-26 09:55:53 EST (#)
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Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2007-01-26 09:40:21 (#)
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Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2007-01-26 09:13:29 (#)
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who would've thought that the 350 000 soldiers that were evacuated at dunkerque were the survivors of 2 tiny battalions.
people think i'm defending france (how so?) but i'm really just laughing at ignorance.
THE AMERICANS WON AT STALINGRAD!
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No Caul - you misunderstood. I meant the French moved 2 battalions to counter what they considered a diversionary movement - refusing to believe it was the main thrust of the German advance. I didn't mean 'they only had 2 battalions' or 'they only ever committed 2 to the war'
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the main thrust were in the ardennes. the german advance in the low lands was to draw the allies further northeast to encircle them.
Submitted by Nellypaal (user info) at 2007-01-26 09:51:44 EST (#)
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Ha!
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2007-01-26 09:41:56 EST (#)
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"The original The French is Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. It has been suggested that the speaker's intention wasn't as cynical as is generally supposed. French law required bakers to sell loaves at fixed prices and fancy loaves had to be sold at the same price as basic breads. This was aimed at preventing bakers from selling just the more profitable expensive products. The let them eat brioche (a form of cake made of flour, butter and eggs) would have been a sensible suggestion in the face of a flour shortage as it would have allowed the poor to eat what would otherwise have been unaffordable. It's rather a mouthful, so to speak, but if the phrase had been reported as 'let them buy cake at the same price as bread' we might now think better of the French nobility. "
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2007-01-26 09:40:21 EST (#)
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Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2007-01-26 09:13:29 (#)
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who would've thought that the 350 000 soldiers that were evacuated at dunkerque were the survivors of 2 tiny battalions.
people think i'm defending france (how so?) but i'm really just laughing at ignorance.
THE AMERICANS WON AT STALINGRAD!
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No Caul - you misunderstood. I meant the French moved 2 battalions to counter what they considered a diversionary movement - refusing to believe it was the main thrust of the German advance. I didn't mean 'they only had 2 battalions' or 'they only ever committed 2 to the war'
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2007-01-26 09:38:55 EST (#)
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Cake being a cheap form of bread. """
hmm...not really. she suggested that peasants should eat the food of the rich if they were starving. it was a pinko commie statement.
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I seem to recall it was an unleavened sweet bread of some sort. Marie Antoinette was a famous romantic figure, but nothing more. A scapegoat for the French people because of all the defeats they had inflicted on them by the Austro-Hungarians
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2007-01-26 09:24:46 EST (#)
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This was fucking classic, but you missed out a very important part of their recent history:
http://www.ubersite.com/m/94103
HOHO!
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2007-01-26 09:13:29 EST (#)
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who would've thought that the 350 000 soldiers that were evacuated at dunkerque were the survivors of 2 tiny battalions.
people think i'm defending france (how so?) but i'm really just laughing at ignorance.
THE AMERICANS WON AT STALINGRAD!
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2007-01-26 09:00:15 EST (#)
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Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2007-01-26 02:35:59 (#)
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Cake being a cheap form of bread. """
hmm...not really. she suggested that peasants should eat the food of the rich if they were starving. it was a pinko commie statement.
I was amused by the colossal arrogance of the French government when the Germans began posturing, and their refusal to believe their own scouts saying that the Germans were moving through the lowlands - and then their half arsed response - sending out two battalions to hold off the entire German army. It's like military Darwin awards"""
by "low lands" you must mean the Ardennes. because as i recall there were close to a million soldiers, French and BEF, in response to the Northwest invasion which were later surrounded then evacuated. the allies actually committed too much (of their best) troops to face the german forces in the low lands which served as bait. the only thing you got right is the few batalions, which were defending the ardennes.
for someone who is so standoffish on history, you sound like you went to an American public school. especially your cake comment...o_O
you will probably tell me that i'm wrong like mc_callum or jaypeg do because it's much better to defend your preconceptions than read a book or make a small internet research. lol
Submitted by jojo747 (user info) at 2007-01-26 08:58:09 EST (#)
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brutal
Submitted by pannerplant (user info) at 2007-01-26 08:48:20 EST (#)
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fucking gay
Submitted by particle_man58 (user info) at 2007-01-26 03:12:47 EST (#)
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I took french for two years in high school, and I fucking hated it. The french are gay.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2007-01-26 02:35:59 EST (#)
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Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2007-01-25 23:56:02 (#)
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oh and btw, this historical misconception irritates me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maginot_Line#The_Legacy_of_the_Line (i post this to poke jack's severe francophobia)
and Marie Antoinette's statement "Let them eat cake" is vastly misused by anglophones. it meant directly the opposite of what they think.
people need to learn their history.
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Cake being a cheap form of bread.
I was amused by the colossal arrogance of the French government when the Germans began posturing, and their refusal to believe their own scouts saying that the Germans were moving through the lowlands - and then their half arsed response - sending out two battalions to hold off the entire German army. It's like military Darwin awards
Submitted by greEn_uGly (user info) at 2007-01-26 02:28:05 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2007-01-25 23:56:02 EST (#)
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oh and btw, this historical misconception irritates me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maginot_Line#The_Legacy_of_the_Line (i post this to poke jack's severe francophobia)
and Marie Antoinette's statement "Let them eat cake" is vastly misused by anglophones. it meant directly the opposite of what they think.
people need to learn their history.
Submitted by mikethescottish (user info) at 2007-01-25 20:55:50 EST (#)
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Genius.
I trans-continentally tip my hat at you.
Submitted by Wisher (user info) at 2007-01-25 20:41:52 EST (#)
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ha ha ha!!
Submitted by BadSamaritan87 (user info) at 2007-01-25 20:31:48 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-01-25 20:09:47 EST (#)
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if you were my history teacher i would've paid attention more. like seriously i forgot all about the maginot line until you pointed it out.
i <3 zack.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2007-01-25 20:08:49 EST (#)
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B@W
Submitted by Sinistral (user info) at 2007-01-25 19:49:45 EST (#)
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I don't know if this is chronologically accurate :O
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-01-25 19:45:57 EST (#)
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Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2007-01-25 19:45:38 EST (#)
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the caveman has a unibrow hahah
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2007-01-25 19:40:57 EST (#)
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there are lots of classic lines in there. i lolled a lot.
especially the ingratitute and angry midgets.
oh and if you wanna how rome conquered gaul, read the battle of alesia and see how idiotic leadership goes back a long way in france.
Submitted by ih8u2man (user info) at 2007-01-25 18:52:55 EST (#)
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Fucking fantastic man.
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2007-01-25 18:38:05 EST (#)
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One of the best things I've seen here.
Surrender monkeys.
Submitted by Adamdidit2u (user info) at 2007-01-25 18:08:57 EST (#)
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Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2007-01-25 17:48:50 EST (#)
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Excellenté
Submitted by Scott_James (user info) at 2007-01-25 17:41:26 EST (#)
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I missed the part about The Little Emperor the first time around. Hehehe.
Submitted by Scott_James (user info) at 2007-01-25 17:22:43 EST (#)
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You are without doubt one of the best posters on this site.
I only wish I didn't have to read your posts with this shitty dial-up connection at work - I'm praying for broadband when the new company takes over.
Submitted by GnarlsBarkley (user info) at 2007-01-25 16:19:51 EST (#)
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+2 le goutdes singes
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2007-01-25 16:10:48 EST (#)
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aha I didn't even realize this was you, I don't speak Chinese
Submitted by blackeyedbitch (user info) at 2007-01-25 15:59:14 EST (#)
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Submitted by Gunslinger (user info) at 2007-01-25 15:51:10 (#)
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"Le gout des singes"
hahahaha
Submitted by Sheba (user info) at 2007-01-25 15:55:13 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Cyrus (user info) at 2007-01-25 15:54:51 EST (#)
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very nice
Submitted by Gunslinger (user info) at 2007-01-25 15:51:10 EST (#)
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"Le gout des singes"
hahahaha
Submitted by Director (user info) at 2007-01-25 15:26:32 EST (#)
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"The French invent ingratitude."
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aahahahahahasnickersnicker *SNORT* snickersnickeraaaaahahahahahahahah *SNORT*
Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2007-01-25 15:16:51 EST (#)
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Dang it. meant to +2
Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2007-01-25 15:12:45 EST (#)
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Submitted by Dolson (user info) at 2007-01-25 15:01:50 (#)
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Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2007-01-25 14:52:26 (#)
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I find it impossible to hate the country who invented cheese.
CHEESE!!
P.S. I thought it was an Arab that invented cheese or some such thing
P.P.S. Wasn't the majority of world war one fought on french soil?
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It was. It's just that the winning battles was fought by the British and Canadians (later the Americans) while the French were busy losing it up
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New Zealand and Australia just so happened to be there as well.
on a side note: I watched Joyeux Noel last night, what a fucking awesome story.
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2007-01-25 15:11:19 EST (#)
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little round heads
Submitted by Dolson (user info) at 2007-01-25 15:01:50 EST (#)
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Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2007-01-25 14:52:26 (#)
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I find it impossible to hate the country who invented cheese.
CHEESE!!
P.S. I thought it was an Arab that invented cheese or some such thing
P.P.S. Wasn't the majority of world war one fought on french soil?
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It was. It's just that the winning battles was fought by the British and Canadians (later the Americans) while the French were busy losing it up.
Submitted by goferforhire (user info) at 2007-01-25 14:58:44 EST (#)
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Bon chance
Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2007-01-25 14:52:26 EST (#)
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I find it impossible to hate the country who invented cheese.
CHEESE!!
P.S. I thought it was an Arab that invented cheese or some such thing
P.P.S. Wasn't the majority of world war one fought on french soil?
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2007-01-25 14:43:19 EST (#)
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OUI!
Submitted by Avals (user info) at 2007-01-25 14:38:18 EST (#)
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It's funny 'cause it's true!
(I hope Caul reads this.)
Submitted by InkyFingers (user info) at 2007-01-25 14:34:50 EST (#)
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Nice. This warmed my baguette.
Submitted by St_Jimmy (user info) at 2007-01-25 14:27:08 EST (#)
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Why do all the french people look like giant penorz?
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2007-01-25 14:26:30 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2007-01-25 14:22:22 EST (#)
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What's the story with those French dudes' nads?
Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2007-01-25 14:20:07 EST (#)
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Ah, le funnie.
-Dave
Submitted by congo (user info) at 2007-01-25 14:17:51 EST (#)
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And now I have learned something today!
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2007-01-25 14:17:15 EST (#)
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if i laugh at this i will look like a NASCAR loving neanderthal American redneck.
(i will go laugh in a private place)