Friday, July 06, 2007

112 Reasons

62 Years old and cogent
112 reasons the French Stink
This booklet was didtributed to U.S. occupation forces in 1945.  Full text here.  What I've read so far is  pretty remarkable.  Thanks to Steve (skh) for sending it.

“ This booklet tries to help some of us understand an ally - the French. It is not meant either to "defend" the French or to chastise those Americans who do not like the French. It is intended simply to bring into reasonable focus those irritations, dissatisfactions and misunderstandings which arise because it is often hard for the people of one country to understand the people of another. ”

7/06/2007 10:01:00 PM 9 Comments

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Anonymous said...

If this one doesn't bring SondraK out swinging, I miss my guess:

"The French, on the whole, certainly do not drive as well, keep a car up as well, or protect their vehicles as well as we do. Neither do women, compared to men."

7/6/07, 10:28 PM
Anonymous said...

The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.

PJ O'Rourke spares no nation:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~odyssey/Politics/Liberty/PJ.html



The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don't know.
O'Rourke, P.J. (1989), Holidays in hell.

7/6/07, 10:36 PM
Rodger the Real King of France said...

I've driven with Sondrak on Tibetan roads. She scared crap out of me.

7/6/07, 10:38 PM
skh.pcola said...

The tome jumps through flaming hoops to quell the greater part of the distaste that American troops had for the cheese-eaters who walk away from a challenge (jogging is verbotten!). Still, there are some gems in there.

7/6/07, 10:44 PM
Anonymous said...

Yes, all zee above it is troo. Butt it is oll excuzable and good becauze you see, we are ze superriore civilizachion of ze universe and so it is our duty to look down on ze foreneur becauze zey are not ze French, no?

7/7/07, 1:51 AM
Anonymous said...

They invented the BJ-- Cut 'em some slack!

7/7/07, 3:04 AM
Anonymous said...

55. "French women are easy pick-ups."

"The French women who are easy pick-ups are those who are easily picked up."

THIS IS A PROBLEM HOW?

7/7/07, 7:00 AM
Anonymous said...

They invented th BJ so they didnt have to listen to the women.
Tim

7/7/07, 8:53 AM
Anonymous said...

"You can tell a Frenchman......but you can't tell him much."
Scott P.'s Dad

7/7/07, 12:08 PM

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