I hate the french!!!!

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by HarmanKardon

And this one: Most exclusive limousine ever, leaving behind all Duesenbergs and Rolls and Maybachs...

Bugatti Type 41 "La Royale", most valuable classic car limousine. (Most expensive classic car ever is of course a German one: Mercedes-Benz W 196 R racing car.)

Have you been to the car museum over in Muhlhouse? Absolutely fantastic, possibly the best in the world. Ungodly numbers of Bugattis there.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by HarmanKardon

The French built fantastic cars, like this one:

Ah le Deux Cheval a Vapeur or loosely translated the two steam horses. Weirdest suspension I have ever seen but then Citroen was noted for odd suspensions.

When Renault came out with this one some smartass here added letters to make it

L'esCargot

I guess because he thought it was that fast

[Oerets]

Originally Posted by Zeke

When non-military representatives finally arrived from Louis XV, we were told a treaty had been arranged with George III and peace existed between the French and the English leaving us on our own.

Fuck the French.

Zeke, I too have a family history steeped and deeply effected by that very history. Being of Acadian and Micmac decent on my Mother side. Having lived with the written and oral history of family's separated at that time and some sent to Louisiana. Mine happen to run away with the Micmac's and hide thus staying in Acadia.

But too realize that no one person alive today had anything to do with those events. I do not hate the English for this separation and land grab, for it is in the past. I just hate that we do not learn from the past in how to better treat one another.



Barney

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Oerets

Zeke, I too have a family history steeped and deeply effected by that very history...

...But too realize that no one person alive today had anything to do with those events.

Oh, I hear you.

Perhaps I could have found a manner in which to have played that more mirthfully.

[piece-itpete]

HK, are you saying we're NOT the greatest beyond reproach?

Pete

[HarmanKardon]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

HK, are you saying we're NOT the greatest beyond reproach?

Pete

The Germans are the greatest, but I have no problem to confess that the Americans are the greatestest.

[piece-itpete]

Originally Posted by HarmanKardon

The Germans are the greatest, but I have no problem to confess that the Americans are the greatestest.

LOL!

Pete

[Pio1980]

Certain folks hereabouts hate the French for their staunch refusal to accept the obvious fact of the superiority of The United States of America in all matters, including overall standard of living, fair employment practices, culture, medical care, education, and certainly the best justice system money can buy.
OTOH, when it comes to convoluted frustrating bureaucracy, the French are up there with the best, even lacking the obvious corruption of the worst examples.

[djv8ga]

Do we like the Russians more than the French?

[bobabode]

I like Aussies... on the barby.