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Dominique Goes All Wile E. Coyote On Our Asses
2005-06-09
"Sooooper-GENIUS!"
Posted by:mojo

#13  The good news is that the French still have France and the Tour is on the way!

/Pinging Lucky
Posted by: Shipman   2005-06-09 16:14  

#12  If nothing else the proud little villipan troll will make for excellent humor of the pathetic variety. God help France because they sure as hell can't seem to help themselves with their 20th century cast of boastful clown politicians. I think what he had meant to say was that nothing will save the French but their collective ego can be cryrogenically preserved through the unsurpassed mastery of strict daily self-delusion also known as Juche in Norkland.
Posted by: Tkat   2005-06-09 16:04  

#11  There's another one of them oxyMORON!s again...
Posted by: Thomosh Slating5088   2005-06-09 15:54  

#10  So this is his "Gallic genius":

1. Order job centers to "redouble their efforts" to find jobs. [useless]

2. Encourage firms with fewer than 10 workers to hire more people by cutting social charges and paperwork. [useless, see #3]

3. Suspend tax cuts pledged by Mr Chirac in his 2002 election campaign. [stimulate the economy by raising taxes!]

4. Increase public infrastructure projects such as new railway lines and motorways. [only works for some construction workers and firms, and only short term]

"Gallic genius" is apparently an intelligence category somewhere below "Moron".
Posted by: Tom   2005-06-09 15:54  

#9  Only one afflicted with phallic inadequecy uses the term Gallic genius.
Posted by: JerseyMike   2005-06-09 14:40  

#8  Can't make the French citizens life better economically without major reform. Can't make their lives better physically without enforcing the laws and dealing with the Islamic issue.

But they can make their lives better by making the French feel superior to everyone else at every opportunity. All they need is a country or two to villify at every chance. Hmmm, I'm not sure which two countries will get the crap end of French happiness but I have a few ideas.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2005-06-09 14:25  

#7  He's only a century or two off. Pretty good for French mathemeticians these days. Pascale's been dead a looong time.
Posted by: .com   2005-06-09 13:04  

#6  LOL, great title!
Posted by: BH   2005-06-09 12:35  

#5  Here's my prediction - if anyone on this board thought the French were insufferably arrogant and pretentious, you have seen nothing yet. The next two years of listening to the dashing poet (heh) DeVillepin's twaddle will be unparalleled chest-puffing self flattery. I'm going long on barf bags.
Posted by: Raj   2005-06-09 12:06  

#4  Yes if I were an unemployed Phrech citizen I would not be worried because this guy seems to have all the answers. I also would want to buy some stock in that Algerian bank that I keep getting emails about. I guess it's good that Dominique isn't hell-bent on world domination any more (I was begining to think he had a Nepoleon complex).
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2005-06-09 12:02  

#3  The part-time poet and former foreign minister
[Heh.]
added: "My government will be guided by one principle: the imperative of justice; by one criterion: the general interest; by one aim: to improve the lot of every French man and woman."

New slogan: "No justice! No peas!"
Posted by: Seafarious   2005-06-09 11:53  

#2  Gallic genius? You mean like that red head dude in the clown suit yesterday?
Posted by: tu3031   2005-06-09 11:47  

#1  In related news, Acme Industries announced it will build a large warehouse/distribution center and 'product demonstration facility'. The company has purchased several under-used vinyard properties in Bordeaux for the project. An unidentified Acme spokesman said that "France was an ideal location" for Acme's wide range of products.
Posted by: Pappy   2005-06-09 11:46  

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