Frog bashing 101

Entente Frugale

'France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. France has usually been governed by prostitutes.'
Mark Twain

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'I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.'
General George S. Patton

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'Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion.'
Norman Schwartzkopf

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'We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about it.'
Marge Simpson

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'As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.'
Jacques Chirac, Former President of France

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'The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee.'
Regis Philbin

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'You know, the French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the 1940s who was still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't have the face for it.'
John McCain, U.S. Senator from Arizona

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'The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into Paris under a German flag.'
David Letterman

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'Only thing worse than a Frenchman is a Frenchman who lives in Canada.'
Ted Nugent

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'War without France would be like .. World War II.'
Unknown

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'The favourite bumper sticker in Washington D.C. Right now is one that says 'First Iraq, then France.''
Tom Brokaw

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'What do you expect from a culture and a nation that exerted more of its national will fighting against Disney World and Big Macs than the Nazis?'
Dennis Miller

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'It is important to remember that the French have always been there when they needed us.'
Alan Kent

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'They've taken their own precautions against al-Qa'ida. To prepare for an attack, each Frenchman is urged to keep duct tape, a white flag, and a three-day supply of mistresses in the house.'
Argus Hamilton

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'Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day --the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once.''
Rep. Roy Blunt, MO

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'The French will only agree to go to war when we've proven we've found truffles in Iraq'
Dennis Miller

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Q. What did the mayor of Paris say to the German Army as they entered the city in WWII?
A. Table for 100,000 m'sieur?

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'Do you know how many Frenchmen it takes to defend Paris? It's not known, it's never been tried.'
Rep. R. Blount, MO

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'Do you know it only took Germany three days to conquer France in WWII? And that's because it was raining.'
John Xereas, Manager, DC Improv

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The AP and UPI reported that the French Government announced after the London bombings that it has raised its terror alert level from Run to Hide. The only two higher levels in France are Surrender and Collaborate. The rise in the alert level was precipitated by a recent fire which destroyed France's white flag factory, effectively disabling their military.

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French Ban Fireworks at Euro Disney(AP), Paris, March 5, 2008

The French Government announced today that it is imposing a ban on the use of fireworks at Euro Disney. The decision comes the day after a nightly fireworks display at the park, located just 30 miles outside of Paris, caused the soldiers at a nearby French Army garrison to surrender to a group of Czech tourists.

Although some of these jokes are funny, I can't really enjoy them, because, considered in the historical context in which they were originally told, they disgust me. You remember: USAmericans were angry at France for having the temerity to insist that the American Empire doesn't have the right to invade countries illegally and slaughter innocent men, women and children for corporate profit and political gain. And so we got french fries being called "freedom fries" (asserting our imperial freedom to kill for profit) and patriotic idiots reaming the French with macho jokes that equated peacefulness with cowardice. Voila--the imperialistic mindset in action. And notice how corporate television shows that aren't explicitly "political" (Letterman, Dennis Miller, etc.) function as part of the propaganda program to validate war and demonize the peacemakers.

The best line in the bunch is the one that's not "funny", from the Frenchman Chirac: 'As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.' Truer words were never spoken.

While I agree with you intellectually, I (alas) can laugh at just about anything. My dad was a test pilot in France during WW1, and he liked the French okay.

Ask the Statue of Liberty what it thinks about this.