Au contraire. Nothing says "I am a Visigoth and I am back to pillage your antiquities, as did my forefathers before me, but this time with appropriate scientific methodoloy" like a lumberjack beard. The wimmens will all want you, the men will all want to be you.
Of course, it's too late to prove me wrong now. So since you can't disprove my thesis, you must accept it as a fact!
Also? I failed Logic, Discourse, and Scientific Methods courses all over the place, so there's not point in trying to reason with me!
I am always amused when Americans poke fun at their earliest allies, allies who essentially spent themselves into the French Revolution in aid of nascent America.
Rochambeau helps end the war at Yorktown -- and how is he memorialized?
And as a non-amusing but informative point -- since you used the King's Colours (pre-1801) in your icon: this Fall my Regiment is getting our new Colours. Our old Queen's Colour, dating from the late 1950's, still has the Union Jack on it. Our new one will have the Canadian Flag -- the cause of some mumbling and consternation in the Messes, let me assure you. Mind you the old gals are pulling themselves apart under their own weight, now.
Me, I get amused when I say something wry to a foreigner about Montcalm and they think I'm a stereotypical American ignorant of history. :)
I think the French contribution -- as our oldest and most loyal of allies -- gets serious short shrift here. Louis spent himself to the guillotine backing us, out of enlightened self-interest.
I think the 20th c basically shattered any rapport the US once shared with the French. Unlike Spain, say, it seems France has never admitted that it's world spanning influence had gone into decline, and other than the usual parade of baguette-eating models walking around bottomless to emphasis their nakedity, they really are past their prime.
It's sad that the final nail in Amercan-French relations was delivered by a character on the Simpsons.
Freedom fries, dude. Fucking freedom fries. Because many Americans apparently find the concept that a sovereign nation might have a foreign policy that does not line up with us to be very offensive.
Of course, it's too late to prove me wrong now. So since you can't disprove my thesis, you must accept it as a fact!
Also? I failed Logic, Discourse, and Scientific Methods courses all over the place, so there's not point in trying to reason with me!
Doug.
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I am always amused when Americans poke fun at their earliest allies, allies who essentially spent themselves into the French Revolution in aid of nascent America.
Rochambeau helps end the war at Yorktown -- and how is he memorialized?
And as a non-amusing but informative point -- since you used the King's Colours (pre-1801) in your icon: this Fall my Regiment is getting our new Colours. Our old Queen's Colour, dating from the late 1950's, still has the Union Jack on it. Our new one will have the Canadian Flag -- the cause of some mumbling and consternation in the Messes, let me assure you. Mind you the old gals are pulling themselves apart under their own weight, now.
Doug.
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I think the French contribution -- as our oldest and most loyal of allies -- gets serious short shrift here. Louis spent himself to the guillotine backing us, out of enlightened self-interest.
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I think the 20th c basically shattered any rapport the US once shared with the French. Unlike Spain, say, it seems France has never admitted that it's world spanning influence had gone into decline, and other than the usual parade of baguette-eating models walking around bottomless to emphasis their nakedity, they really are past their prime.
It's sad that the final nail in Amercan-French relations was delivered by a character on the Simpsons.
Doug.
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