Vic Smith wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:25:49 -0500, hk wrote:

mmc wrote:
"hk" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
"hk" wrote in message
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If it weren't for the French, we might well have lost the Revolutionary
War.
Just goes to show what could happen to us.

Eisboch

We might have remained British?

I really do not understand the undercurrent of hatred for the French.
It's the whole "freedom fries" thing. They didn't back the Bush
administration in the made for Halliburton war.


I know that is part of it, but it seems to me there is much more.

Goes back to DeGaulle. There was an American undercurrent of
Franco-phobia then when he didn't properly kiss American ass.
Johnny Carson did a bit where he had the "French Ambassador"
as a guest. Carson seriously asked the Ambassador some questions
about tense relations between the countries and the Ambassador
answered in a haughty, Gaullist tone, with an annoying French accent.
Carson said something like, "Speaking as an American, I suppose my
only reaction is this." And slammed the guy in the face with a cream
pie.
It was so well done the audience gasped in shock. Me too.
Then the Frenchy stood up, shook hands with Carson and exited stage
right to uproarious laughter.
One of my favorite Carson bits, after Ed Ames and the hatchet.
Happened to see both of them live.

--Vic



Me, too. Carson was the best. No one who followed is even close. Too bad
he smoked himself to death.