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#80210 - 11/16/05 12:19 PM You have to laugh?????
filbert Offline
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Pilched the article below from
beachhutman blog

Please do not read if you don't have a sense of humour....

Well, you gatta larf, innit?
Gacked from Jumbojoke

As many are aware, the French government recently announced a raise in its terror alert level from "Run" to "Hide". The normal level is "General Arrogance", and the only two higher levels in France are "Surrender" and "Collaborate". The rise was precipitated by a recent fire that destroyed France's white flag factory, effectively paralysing the country's military capability

It's not only the French that are on a heightened level of alert:

Italy has increased the alert level from "Shout loudly and excitedly" to "Elaborate military posturing". Two more levels remain, "Ineffective combat operations" and "Change sides". The Germans also increased their alert state from "Disdain" to "Dress in unform and sing marching songs". They have two higher levels: "Invade a neighbour" and "Lose".

Seeing this reaction in continental Europe the Americans have gone from "Isolationism" to "Find another oil-rich nation for regime change". Their remaining higher alert states are "Attack random countries (ideally those without any credible military)" and "Beg the British for help".

The British are also feeling the pinch in relation to recent bombings and have raised their security level from "Miffed" to "Peeved". Soon though, security levels may be raised yet again to "Irritated" or even "A Bit Cross". Londoners have not been "A Bit Cross" since the Blitz in 1940 when tea supplies all but ran out. Terrorists have been re-categorized from "Tiresome" to "Bloody Nuisance". The last time the British issued a "Bloody Nuisance" warning level was during the Great Fire of 1666.
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#80211 - 11/16/05 12:29 PM Re: You have to laugh?????
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ROFLOL!!!
Very funny, and thanks for sharing the humor, filbert.

BTW, did you see the recent article about the British concern over 14year olds using fountain pens? I'll try to find it and post it, it is also histerical! laugh
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#80212 - 11/16/05 12:44 PM Re: You have to laugh?????
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Quote:
The rise was precipitated by a recent fire that destroyed France's white flag factory, effectively paralysing the country's military capability
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! laugh

I bet you that recent fire was started by a harmless fire bomb thrown by peaceful, loving and open minded Arab person who fashioned 50 of them in Croissant Warehouse. The warehouse used to be called a “Bomb Factory”, but they change the name to Croissant Warehouse because it sounds so nicer. Anyone what to give this peaceful, loving, open minded, fire bomb throwing Arab a job?
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#80213 - 11/16/05 04:06 PM Re: You have to laugh?????
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#80214 - 11/16/05 06:51 PM Re: You have to laugh?????
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Now this made my day! My side is still hurting from laughing! Downright funny! smile

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#80215 - 12/09/05 11:40 AM Re: You have to laugh?????
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Here's some more from the same blog. I guess some posters here will share his sense of humour...

But there has to be a reason why there is a "cordial dislike" - OK, just "dislike" then - between the "British" and the "French". And so often the slick one-liners ring very true. These from CiaoAmica.

"I don't know why people are surprised that France won't help us get Saddam out of Iraq. After all, France wouldn't help us get Hitler out of France either" - Jay Leno.

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

War without France would be like ... uh ... World War II. - Tom Brokaw.

"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.

French Ban Fireworks at Euro Disney (AP), Paris, March 5, 2003: 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.

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

"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

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?

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

Me, I like Clarkson's comment on the burning cars in the streets of Ile de Paris during the recent riots "They've finally worked out what to do with French cars!"
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#80216 - 12/09/05 12:34 PM Re: You have to laugh?????
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I wish I knew a Frenchman and I dislike him. I would just love to repeat these very funny jokes to him.

Bill
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