Mr Sarkozy has been his usual garrulous self as he has made appearances around the town named after James Wolfe, the British general who routed the French in Quebec in the 18th century. The French President told inquirers that the only American on his iPod jogging playlist is Elvis Presley. The rest are French evergreens such as Johnny Hallyday.
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The man is clearly deaf, but nobody's perfect.
Paparazzis should be shot on sight, along with spammers.
Only the French can think Johnny Hallyday is a rocker worth listening to. And only the French love Jerry Lewis. De gustibus non disputandum, and all that.
Only americans think the french like johnny & jerry... I never met one that did. But then you also refer to that nauseating swill as french dressing and think french girls don't shave their legs.
They do? Maybe actresses. BTW, did the French ever discover showers? Or AC? Or real beer?
you do have a point about a/c. But Americans are in no position to give lessons regarding beer. And, btw, there is one good French beer (and, regretably, only one): you should try the Jeanlain which you can probably find @ Andronicos or Whole wallet.
There is a french credo that the only place where a woman should have hair is above the eyebrows. Not exactly gospel in you neck of the woods I fear.
You may want to answer the question here. It's all a vast, right-wing American conspiracy, right?
Arelcao Akleos said...
Pepe mewled: "Only americans think the french like johnny & jerry... I never met one that did"
Hoo Boy, "I personally do not know a Frenchman who likes Jerry Lewis [as if Pepe bothered to ask], Hence Only Americans think the french like johnny and Jerry."
At some point, postmodredgreen disdain for reason and logic simply becomes sheer stupidity.
I will now post articles which objectively underscore, yet again, the idiocy that is Le Pew. Here's Johnny! [and Jerry]
That Americans don't make good or great beer nowadays, Pepe, is evidence of — once again — your Ameriphobia.
Alright, fellahs: time to draft a list of the fine micro-drafts that have been filtered from sea to boozing sea, across the fruited plains. Just for Pepe. Just this once.
Here's a couple you need to try (I've taken the time to provide their respective websites, too) Pepe:
1.) Boulevard Wheat (out of Kansas City, Missouri)
2.) Mirror Pond (out of Oregon)
3.) Summit Maibock (St. Paul, Minnesota)
4.) Moose Drool (Big Sky Brewery, out of Bozeman, Montana)
5.) Lienenkugles, Red Lager (Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin)
Okay. There are four, off the top of my brain, Pepe. Try those and then come back. Your French Nationalism might influence your taste buds, though. But to be honest, microbrewing has increasingly gained speed since the 1980s (perhaps even earlier) in Yankee-land. Be as honest as a xenophob can. I'll look for your French recommend asap.
~mft
MFT: Don't know any of those brews, but I'll try them when I get a chance. To the wider point: US beer has gotten much, much better since I landed on these shores - oh, way back when Jimmah was just starting his amazing Presidency. I still remember the culture shock at tasting ersatz bread ("Wonder bread" it was called, some kind of white stuff in plastic bags) and ersatz beer (Budweiser, in aluminum cans). It took some internal fortitude to get over such things, and appreciate the good things about America -- but I did it, and bid my time, till, wonder of wonders, Reagan came along, and real bread started to be baked (crusty Swiss bread, at Zabar's on Broadway and 81st), and, much later, tasty beer started to be brewed (Sam Adams, in Beantown, circa 1986).
Now, I don't expect Pepe to appreciate all these improvements that occured -- and, in all fairness, not everything got better. For example, I had no problem finding a pait of jeans length 36in when I stepped off the boat. Now it's totally impossible -- they only go up to length 32in, maybe, once in a while 34in. I guess there are no longer tall Americans (?) or else, it's the influence of Soviet Central Planning, where they would make 10 million shoes size 10, but no shoe size 11 in a given year?
OK, OK, I'm digressing. The bottom line is this: Now, in 2007, American beer (by which I mean real beer, not the pisswasser in Al cans) is way better than French beer (duhhh), and arguably better than almost any European beer, except British, German, Czech, and perhaps a couple others. Aahhh, if I could only find jeans my size, the U S of A would be the perfect place to be.
AI, first thing is first:
Regarding the jeans. Click here. You'll have to click again, but you can more-easily order your desired inseam on-line. I do a 34" inseam, and I can empathize with trying to find a decent pair. Our inability to locate a proper size might just mean that Yankees are getting taller (or more Romanians and Swedes are settling in our respective shopping areas).
You're not having difficulty finding a proper shoe size, correct?
Also: beer went downhill during prohibition. Yanks were so glad to have it back on the market that they lost any type of appreciation or discrimination for taste. THEY WANTED THEIR BOOZE BACK. It took some time, but the breweries finally caught up with and transcended the ante-prohibition days of brewing. Of course, the pre-prohibition brewer titans almost invariably hailed from the countries you speak of: Bohemia, Germany, England. Those years of pisswater are behind us. And if they even attempt to come back around, well, we always have the ability to take up arms in the name of better brew...
AI said: Don't know any of those brews, but I'll try them when I get a chance.
AI, try to locate the Lienenkugles, specifically the Red Lager (out of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin) first. It's two states to my right (that much closer to you). I don't know how far their distributors push, though.
yet again, the idiocy that is Le Pew.
aa - I am really at a loss as to how you allow yourself to talk to people in such a fashion. It is all the more puzzling that it is addressed to friends of friends, but this detail obviously has no meaning to you.
mft assured me once that you aren't the superior and pretentious individual that your litany of insulting posts suggests. Since you can't possibly think that I give any value to your opinions, I am wondering whom you think benefits from your display of absence of education. Perhaps it is simply that your parents were truly clueless and have passed it on.
Whatever the case, I am truly tired of your adolescent harangues. You have won - I am done for good with this blog.
Best to mft.
Pepe Pontificated in fine 10th grade fast track fashion: "
"mft assured me once that you aren't the superior and pretentious individual that your litany of insulting posts suggests. Since you can't possibly think that I give any value to your opinions, I am wondering whom you think benefits from your display of absence of education. Perhaps it is simply that your parents were truly clueless and have passed it on.
Whatever the case, I am truly tired of your adolescent harangues. "
Your soliloquies are then your curse.
But I shall refrain from endorsing your views on who is responsible for what and blame your parents for what is clearly Pepe Le Pew all the way down.
Won? Is that what passes for your reason for being here, to "win"??
Win what?
Perhaps no use, MFT. If this is Dunkirk, would we expect Vichy to stand steadfast?
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