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2005-06-09 Europe

Dominique Goes All Wile E. Coyote On Our Asses

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Posted by mojo 2005-06-09 11:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#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|| 2005-06-09 11:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Gallic genius? You mean like that red head dude in the clown suit yesterday?

Posted by tu3031 2005-06-09 11:47|| 2005-06-09 11:47|| Front Page Top

#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">Seafarious 2005-06-09 11:53|| 2005-06-09 11:53|| Front Page Top

#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">Cyber Sarge 2005-06-09 12:02|| 2005-06-09 12:02|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2005-06-09 12:06|| Front Page Top

#6 LOL, great title!

Posted by BH 2005-06-09 12:35|| 2005-06-09 12:35|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2005-06-09 13:04|| Front Page Top

#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">rjschwarz 2005-06-09 14:25|| rjschwarz.com]">[rjschwarz.com] 2005-06-09 14:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Only one afflicted with phallic inadequecy uses the term Gallic genius.

Posted by JerseyMike 2005-06-09 14:40|| 2005-06-09 14:40|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2005-06-09 15:54|| Front Page Top

#11 There's another one of them oxyMORON!s again...

Posted by Thomosh Slating5088 2005-06-09 15:54|| 2005-06-09 15:54|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2005-06-09 16:04|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2005-06-09 16:14|| Front Page Top

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