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From: darsy on 1 Oct 2009 08:35 On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:01:01 +0200, "Leszek Karlik" <leslie(a)hell.pl> wrote: >Sometimes I think about resubscribing rec.arts.sf.writing. Then I >think again. ;-) it's a horrible place. -- d.
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 1 Oct 2009 10:21 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Andy Bonwick <nospam(a)bonwick.me.uk> saying something like: >>>Coz it's fashionable. Like calling them Surrender Monkeys. >> >>Always got up my nose, that term. >>I mean, it's the right and proper thing for the Brits to slag the French >>off, but the Americans have no place in it at all. >>Colonial upstarts. > >My biggest issue with the merkins is their inability to win a war when >they're fighting on their own. Oh, indeed. <g> You little tinker.
From: Beav on 1 Oct 2009 11:34 "Kevin Lambert" <kjlambert(a)btnospam.com> wrote in message news:-5idnfaz64rU9FnXnZ2dnUVZ8mSdnZ2d(a)bt.com... > Leszek Karlik wrote: >> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:02:55 +0200, Chris H >> <fazer.1000thousand(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: >> >> [...] >>>>> Yeah, but we did give them "Le Weekend" >>>> Let's not forget "Le Sandwich" >> >>> http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mots_fran%C3%A7ais_d%27origine_anglaise >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_French_origin >> >> Compare and contrast. :-) >> > I was in a lecture on Soviet strategy (a long time ago) when the lecturer > said, with no sense of irony, 'the trouble with the Russians is that they > have no word for "detente".'. And oddly, didn't George Bush say the French didn't have a word for detente too? -- Beav VN 750 Zed 1000 OMF# 19
From: Simon Wilson on 1 Oct 2009 11:52 Beav wrote: > "Kevin Lambert" <kjlambert(a)btnospam.com> wrote in message > news:-5idnfaz64rU9FnXnZ2dnUVZ8mSdnZ2d(a)bt.com... >> Leszek Karlik wrote: >>> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:02:55 +0200, Chris H >>> <fazer.1000thousand(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: >>> >>> [...] >>>>>> Yeah, but we did give them "Le Weekend" >>>>> Let's not forget "Le Sandwich" >>>> http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mots_fran%C3%A7ais_d%27origine_anglaise >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_French_origin >>> >>> Compare and contrast. :-) >>> >> I was in a lecture on Soviet strategy (a long time ago) when the lecturer >> said, with no sense of irony, 'the trouble with the Russians is that they >> have no word for "detente".'. > > And oddly, didn't George Bush say the French didn't have a word for detente > too? > I thought it was entrepreneur. cba to google. -- /Simon
From: platypus on 1 Oct 2009 12:04
Simon Wilson wrote: > Beav wrote: >> "Kevin Lambert" <kjlambert(a)btnospam.com> wrote in message >> news:-5idnfaz64rU9FnXnZ2dnUVZ8mSdnZ2d(a)bt.com... >>> Leszek Karlik wrote: >>>> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:02:55 +0200, Chris H >>>> <fazer.1000thousand(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> [...] >>>>>>> Yeah, but we did give them "Le Weekend" >>>>>> Let's not forget "Le Sandwich" >>>>> http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mots_fran%C3%A7ais_d%27origine_anglaise >>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_French_origin >>>> >>>> Compare and contrast. :-) >>>> >>> I was in a lecture on Soviet strategy (a long time ago) when the >>> lecturer said, with no sense of irony, 'the trouble with the >>> Russians is that they have no word for "detente".'. >> >> And oddly, didn't George Bush say the French didn't have a word for >> detente too? >> > > I thought it was entrepreneur. cba to google. Thatcher, surely? |