Re: Japanese learning, is anybody as frustrated as me?

From: Kevin Gowen (kgowenNOSPAM_at_myfastmail.com)
Date: 11/25/04 

Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 09:15:47 -0500

jim_breen@hotmail.com wrote:
> Kevin Gowen <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> dixit:
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>>What good is making friends in France? They'll just teach you how to
>>have really bad body odor.
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> It took a while, but it's plain that the memory of who really
> won the War of Independence for you has completely faded.

I guess it's been replaced by the memory of the Deerfield Massacre,
France'a aligning with the Confederacy, France's asinine demands at
Paris Peace Conference, Vichy troops fighting Americans in WWII, de
Gaulle doing his damnedest to weaken NATO, and France's refusal to give
the US fly-over permission on the way to Libya in 1986.

I'm sure while those Allied troops were facing Vichy fire in northern
Africa, they consoled themselves with the thought of the Marquis de
Lafayette. It must have warmed the cockles of their hearts.

> I guess it's time all those US flags and DAR badges were removed
> from Lafayette's grave in Picpus cemetery.

While you're at it, you can places those flags on the graves of the 60,
486 US soldiers in Aisne-Marne, Brittany, Epinal, Lorraine,
Meuse-Argonne, Normandy, Oise-Aisne, Rhone, Somme, St. Mihiel, and
Suresnes. Those are just the marked graves, mind you. 

-- 
Kevin
"This is the best election night in history."--Democratic National 
Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe, Nov. 2, 2004, just before 8 p.m. EST
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