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France means "chicken"
2004-11-08
This is from the anti-idiotarian rottweiler's site. Explains it all, the money graf is this:

...The brightly coloured cockerel, one of France's oldest native animal species, is synonymous with French fighting spirit — at times arrogance — and is famously unleashed on to the football pitch before games involving the national side. Due to a semantic crossover, the Latin word gallus means both cockerel and Gaul and it has come to stand as a symbol of France's distant ancestors....
Posted by:anonymous2u

#3  We do chickens right.
Posted by: Col H Sanders KNG Deep Fat Brigade   2004-11-08 1:06:15 PM  

#2  Boy, am I glad Franklin and his turkey bird was overridden.
Posted by: anonymous2u   2004-11-08 11:22:42 AM  

#1  I knew I should have scrolled down before I posted.

Check out the posting about a Darwin award winner from Nancy, France.
Posted by: anonymous2u   2004-11-08 11:19:15 AM  

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