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Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:55 pm
by Minnie
I am doing good, I took one of my pain pills so I am feeling much better and getting kinda loopy again so watch it
Hi dum dum
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Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:58 pm
by Anonymous
THE RESISTANCE MANIFESTO
1. Members of the resistance pledge to fight for our freedoms, for the good of common men, and for justice.
2. Resistance Members are helpful, brave, and keep no secrets.
3. Resistance Members shall not Steal.
4. Resistance members are HUMANIST. They respect all forms of life but will fight against them is necessary.
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Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:59 pm
by Minnie
what the hell is all that about?
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:00 am
by sintekk
Free french fries, that's what it's all about!
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:00 am
by Anonymous
I have formed a group called THE RESISTANCE. We fight to better humanity and we fight against the Machine.
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:01 am
by Minnie
Really, is this an all male club?
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:04 am
by sintekk
Doubt it, just seems that lure of free french fries has only attracted us so far
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:06 am
by Anonymous
Minnie wrote: Really, is this an all male club?
Nope. We need women....
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:13 am
by Minnie
William Wallace wrote: Minnie wrote: Really, is this an all male club?
Nope. We need women....
Ya do eh'? Hmmmm.....how many people are in this club?
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:20 am
by Bookworm
And what, exactly, is the Machine? Is that like the Borg? "Resistance is futile."
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:21 am
by sintekk
The Borg, however, have a weakness: greasy French fries! Muwahahaha!
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:25 am
by Anonymous
Bookworm wrote: And what, exactly, is the Machine? Is that like the Borg? "Resistance is futile."
Yeah, if you think your Government is like the borg.
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:54 am
by Red Squirrel
We are the bush administration of America. You WILL be assimilated, you WILL be recruited. Join the Force now and FIGHT the war!
*Free gun included
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:55 am
by Minnie
Red Squirrel wrote: We are the bush administration of America. You WILL be assimilated, you WILL be recruited. Join the Force now and FIGHT the war!
*Free gun included
I get a gun!!Whoooo
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:57 am
by Red Squirrel
It's just a nerf gun though, but it looks real.
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 1:02 am
by Minnie
Red Squirrel wrote: It's just a nerf gun though, but it looks real.
Many people will be thankful that it is only nurf
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 1:04 am
by Red Squirrel
"This is a hold up" *bang bang bang*
"WTF!"
*bang bang bang*
Teller: "so what do I do now, do I just lie on the ground and act as if I'm dead?"
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 1:08 am
by Bookworm
Hand over the money first, then act like you're dead.
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 4:37 am
by Anonymous
Cheese-eating surrender monkeys, eh?
By Molly Ivins
Creators Syndicate
We have been enjoying a lovely little spate of French-bashing here lately. Jonah Goldberg of National Review, who admits that French-bashing is "shtick" (as it is to many American comedians), has popularized the phrase "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" to describe the French.
It gets a lot less attractive than that.
George Will saw fit to include in his latest Newsweek column this joke: "How many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris? No one knows, it's never been tried."
That was certainly amusing.
One million, four hundred thousand French soldiers were killed during World War I. As a result, there weren't many Frenchmen left to fight in World War II. Nevertheless, 100,000 French soldiers lost their lives trying to stop Adolf Hitler.
On behalf of every one of those 100,000 men, I would like to thank Mr. Will for his clever joke. They were out-manned, out-gunned, out-generaled and, above all, out-tanked. They got slaughtered, but they stood and they fought. Ha-ha, how funny.
In the few places where they had tanks, they held splendidly.
Relying on the Maginot Line was one of the great military follies of modern history, but it does not reflect on the courage of those who died for France in 1940. For 18 months after that execrable defeat, the United States of America continued to have cordial diplomatic relations with Nazi Germany.
One of the great what-ifs of history is: What would have happened if Franklin Roosevelt had lived to the end of his last term?
How many wars have been lost in the peace?
For those of you who have not read Paris 1919, I recommend it highly. Roosevelt was anti-colonialist. That system was a great evil, a greater horror even than Nazism or Stalinism.
If you have read Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild, you have some idea. The French were in it up to their necks.
Instead of insisting on freedom for the colonies of Europe, we let our allies carry on with the system, leaving the British in India and Africa, and the French in Vietnam and Algeria, to everyone's eventual regret.
Surrender monkeys? Try Dien Bien Phu. Yes, the French did surrender, didn't they? After 6,000 French died in a no-hope position. Ever heard of the Foreign Legion? Of the paratroopers, called "paras"? The trouble we could have saved ourselves if we had only paid attention to Dien Bien Phu.
Then came Algeria. As nasty a war as has ever been fought. If you have seen the film Battle of Algiers, you have some idea. Five generations of pieds noirs, French colonialists, thought it was their country.
Charles de Gaulle came back into power in 1958, specifically elected to keep Algeria French. I consider de Gaulle's long, slow, delicate, elephantine withdrawal (de Gaulle even looked like an elephant) one of the single greatest acts of statesmanship in history. Only de Gaulle could have done that.
Those were the years when France learned about terrorism. The plastiquers were all over Paris. The "plastic" bombs, the ones you can stick like Play-Do underneath the ledge of some building, were the popular weapon du jour. It made Israel today look tame. For France, terrorism is "Been there, done that."
The other night on 60 Minutes, Andy Rooney, who fought in France and certainly has a right to be critical, chided the French for forgetting all that sacrifice. But I think he got it backward: The French remember too well.
I was in Paris on Sept. 11, 2001. The reaction was so immediate, so generous, so overwhelming.
Not just the government, but the people kept bringing flowers to the American embassy. They covered the American Cathedral, the American Church, anything they could find that was American.
They didn't just leave flowers -- they wrote notes with them. I read more than 100 of them. Not only did they refer, again and again, to Normandy, to never forgetting, but there were even some in ancient, spidery handwriting referring to WWI: "Lafayette is still with you."
Look, the French are not a touchy-feely people. They're more, like, logical. For them to approach total strangers in the streets who look American and hug them is seriously extraordinary. I got patted so much I felt like a Labrador retriever. I wish Andy Rooney had been there.
This is where I think the real difference is. We Americans are famously ahistorical. We can barely be bothered to remember what happened last week, or last month, much less last year.
The French are really stuck on history. (Some might claim this is because the French are better educated than we are. I won't go there.)
Does it not occur to anyone that these are very old friends of ours, trying to tell us what they think they know about being hated by weak enemies in the Third World?
I can't make threads sorry I had to post this here.
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 2:04 pm
by mimic
Good afternoon everyone.
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 3:22 pm
by Minnie
Hi everyone! Good to see you Jeff!
Just stopped in to see what was up, we are having a garage sale today
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 3:24 pm
by mimic
Hi Mindy. Good to see you too.
Garage sales rule.
I hate to have to tell you this but....
I have styarted a revolution to fight against the revolution. My dear wife and Queen, Clueless and I must rule the world.
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 3:26 pm
by sintekk
You always seem to forget the Dreaded Nerf Ninja Sintekk
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 3:27 pm
by mimic
sintekk wrote: You always seem to forget the Dreaded Nerf Ninja Sintekk
Oh yea! I didn't see you took down the french resistance flag! YAYYYYYY!!!
What title shall you see worthy for your loyalty?
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 3:34 pm
by Minnie
mimic wrote: Hi Mindy. Good to see you too.
Garage sales rule.
I hate to have to tell you this but....
I have styarted a revolution to fight against the revolution. My dear wife and Queen, Clueless and I must rule the world.
Oh ya?
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