Send Back Liberty!

[j2k4]

Originally posted by clocker@28 April 2003 - 12:03
Why should we stop with the Statue of Liberty?

I say we send back that cesspool New Orleans, too!

Before it sinks and cannot be retrieved!

[j2k4]

Originally posted by hobbes@28 April 2003 - 12:34
My personal term of affection for the French is "Poodle smugglers".

This goes in the file

[Rat Faced]

We Brits can send the Blackpool Tower, which is a smaller replica of tha
StatueOf Liberty

You mean a replica of the Eiffel Tower surely.......Otherwise its a bit of an abstract rendition.

[clocker]

Originally posted by Rat Faced@29 April 2003 - 01:41


You mean a replica of the Eiffel Tower surely.......Otherwise its a bit of an abstract rendition.

Goes along with his somewhat abstract logic, really.

[leecheskicked]

thats the flag of orleon;s is'nt it?

[leecheskicked]

and actually, back me up here rat faced, there would not be a USA today if it was not for french interference in a family squabble between england and english colonial settlers in the american colonies, truth is less than 5% bothered about indepedence.

[chloe_cc2002]

and actually, back me up here rat faced, there would not be a USA today if it was not for french interference in a family squabble between england and english colonial settlers in the american colonies, truth is less than 5% bothered about indepedence

Don't they teach US history in the US?

[Barbarossa]

Originally posted by chloe_cc2002@30 April 2003 - 22:31

and actually, back me up here rat faced, there would not be a USA today if it was not for french interference in a family squabble between england and english colonial settlers in the american colonies, truth is less than 5% bothered about indepedence

Don't they teach US history in the US?

Yes, but I think it goes something like this:

Chapter 1: And So God Created America, And Saw That It Was Good......

[chloe_cc2002]

Chapter 1: And So God Created America, And Saw That It Was Good...... 

LOL

The French were interfering but were at with war with the British. The war of independence tied down a lot of resources to the British. At a very low cost the French caused the British a whole lot of trouble and that helped the war with the British.

Every ship that was in the Americas fighting against the Americans wasn't available to use against Nelson in Europe.

The British and French fleets were evenly matched in numbers. The British warships were spread very thin, and transports were especially important because from a strategic point of view the greater number of transports they had the larger the garrison the French had to put in each port city, because the size of their invasion force was limited by the number of transports they hard. For the British having those tied up in the Americas was quite an impediment.

If you remember the move Lloyds of London the British merchants were screaming out for escorts for their merchant ships and trying to maintain the blockade which was thinning and crumbling on them. The British won in the end, but the French helping the Americans a bit paid off massively really.

anyway........

[j2k4]

Originally posted by barbarossa@1 May 2003 - 05:01
Chapter 1: And So God Created America, And Saw That It Was Good......

Actually, the bent toward revisionism has left intact only those "facts" acknowledging human (read: neither male nor female; presumably at least some androgynous 'beings') involvement in the creation of America; God was legally estopped from reviewing/approving the result. He has been banished from books and public discourse, and is currently being hunted so as to be tried for 'war crimes'.

Rumor has it France is contracting with an American textbook publisher for the right to legally supplant Britain as America's progenitor.