Am I first?

I can't HEAR YOU!

If I say "Weapons of Mass Destruction", you will answer "We are proud to be the biggest liars in the American Wild West" !

Will dashole be shocked or saddened by this? Enquiring Minds want to know.

Worst of all, Scrappleface is an all-white organization that does not have a hiring program with diversity-over-integrity as its goal.

RACIST!

frenchie- when you 'say' anything we collectively sigh and feel a deep sense of remorse for you- and not just because you are 'proud' to be french.

frenchy how much foreign blood runs thru your veins?when your dad told you he waited tables for the gestapo in ww2 did you dare ask where your mama was?
let the french be as all they want to do is create creamy sauces and watch jerry lewis movies.

jesus what kind of people admit being french in this day and age?

After reading the Frenchman, I've pulled that muscle that helps to roll the eyes....

Gee, I guess the French, germans, Russians and the rest of the Security Counsel should be renamed, The Liars Club, since they all said Saddam had WMD. In fact, it was probably French intelligence (again-oxymoron) who told us about the Iraqi WMD, since according to frenchman our intelligence service is too stupid we would have to depend on the highly intelligencet and sophisticated french

Although we've got an Off Ott topic thread going:

Motto of U.N.'s weapons inspectors:
"I hear nutting...I see nutting" ( think Hogans Heroes)
The motto was so well liked by Jacque-itch
shIRAQ (his life motto) He collected royalties for selling it to the visually/auditorally/cerebrally impaired U.N.
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Great Cosmic Joke: I agree...eye rolling muscle strain. And why is it everytime I see sit down and see a Frenchman waste of words posted Im inflicted with an "itching burning sensation"??...Just his name enflames!! a real pain in the bum!.
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Sorry Scott Ott----French-fried has apparently stolen some of your thunder....but we've gotta get that pesky fly outta the room so we can then focus on the real matter at hand! ( congrats on the cool ca$h deal, though! woo hoo..CHEETOS FOR EVERYONE??!)

Scott? could ya call an exterminator to "treat" the Scrappleface room first? AND would someone PLEASE THROW OUT the broken record: WMD WMD WMD WMD....

Frenchman has always felt his creativity was being complimented when someone told him he was so "autistic"...That's an R not a U, Fuenchman!

********great quote:********
"..It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.."
--Samuel Adams

CAT....that's Lynch Family CAT...although I think it's safe to say I spoke for the family!(:~})

Hmmm... I'm sure we all eagerly await Sn. Ott's book. Sure....

How "scandalous" can a Blog get? Not much that goes on... no transfer of money... [no] secret drug racket.... Yeah... especially none of that last one.... :ph34r:

I see FrenchMan has not left yet. Can you see that your views aren't welcome?

Hit tha' road, Jack, and don't come back... No more, no more, no more, no more!

I am sure this has been brought up before- obviously frenchie can't understand that Saddam had 12+ years to have covert operations plus the additional 6 months of un resolution 1441 to hide/ transport materials elsewhere!!!

Are all french 'men' so blatantly oblivious to reality??? Or did we hit the 'jackpot' with the 'clueless wonder'?

If you are referring to Frenchy as any type of "jackpot," you need to check your priorities...

I think the problem is that the French don't want to acknowledge the fact that the USA is the world power now. They want to think that they still have power. Well, guess what? You don't. Denial is a sad state to live in. All frenchmen are sad people, obviously...

clarification:

jack-pot; jack, as in 'you don't know jack' and pot, as in 'he doesn't have a pot to p--- in'.

H.o.D.

Or maybe he smokes pot to get the dillusion that the French can hold a dime to the Americans?

hrdlordi---"Are all french 'men' so blatantly oblivious to reality??? Or did we hit the 'jackpot' with the 'clueless wonder'?--
FUNNY STUFF!

....but after reading Paul C. Tindall's post I wondered, too if you meant "CRACKPOT"??

TRUTH be told: (obviously I'm not French!)..as much attention as Frenchie gets here...THAT"S what brings him back. If we ignore him...he'd probably go away or come back under another name to get the attention....although he probably keeps coming back because he's really not convinced of his own beliefs.

Terrible how the French can be so messed up... terrible....

I agree, and I have thought that for a while. His idioticy... I mean, "liberalism," and our adversion to the truth... or, rather, our way, makes him look like a total idiot... not that he needs our help to do that.

When someone has little of something, and you want to make them feel better, just tell them...
"You have more of (whatever they are lacking) than the French have war heroes!"

PCT

Cat zone

jackpot or crackpot- does it really matter!!! I think frenchie has some serious issues from his childhood! I don't want to speculate!!!

I think when he gets the 'relentless abuse' heaped on, in his own little (and i can't emphasize little-enough!) brain he feels that is justification for his position. In reality, it is just an idiotic position! But he is proud of it just like his 'heritage'!!!

I am not a psychologist nor do I play one on television!!!

H.o.D.

Now I will reveal the truth. I am an 80 year old Korean woman, in the country illegally, and overseer (clean cage and feeding) of the group of monkeys who actually write the news you see on scrappleface. Mr Ott is nice man never beats me and never hardly beats the monkeys. But where they only get some little food for efforts, I am getting 50 cents an hour and I can sleep in Garage of Ott mansion in Hollywood. I have also thin blanket for if coldness comes. Mr Ott promises that one day I will bring family too. Also I am washing shirts and cooking. For the Monkeys I mean. Mr Ott uses diverse Equadorian workforce for his cookings and cleanings. Sometimes when Mr Ott is away visiting his homeland France we all use the pool. And sometimes we drive around in his big German car. Not the monkeys though. They not allowed driving. But most fun is when Mr Moore visits for Friday fun time and we are treated then as equals for impressing "Mikey-san" and watch movies in big home theater. Mr Ott and everybody likes best "Bull Durham" and "Rocky Horror" for the quality of the acting. So now I hope you know he is nice man.
Now I must go clean cages. Next Monkey post soon. You all keep reading or I am hungry.

Ummm... I don't think Mr. Ott has a mansion in Hollywood. Gimmee a break, Hollywood is SOOOO out of style. Try Some Small Town, Arkansas. Gosh.

in all sincerity i believe the french have come to realize their complete and utter insignificance over the last 50 years,causing jealosy on their end.
with an open mind we can understand why some of the pan arab states oppose the war in iraq and on moral grounds we can see the opinions of other nations being against the war but when the french,german and russians start dictating moral policy to us then the whole world can see the hypocrisy of these once powerful,now dependant hypocrites.schroeder rode to victory on an anti-american platform,chiraq ran against a vichy-type (former mayor of lyon? forgot his name)and the communists..and he won what???less than 30% of the vote..as far as russia goes,well see what happened in chechnya today,they got 70million muslims in what was the former soviet union to deal with,they will have their hands full for another 200years.
whoever posted the history of the french in warfare on the jellyfish forum should be rewarded handsomely as i havent laughed that hard since howell heflin asked anita hill if""she was a woman scorned"".....

The History of France in warfare goes as such...
Captured by Germany, saved by Britian and the US...
Captured by Germany, saved by Britian and the US...
And the first person who references to Charlemagne will be shot -- Charlemagne belonged to the Frankish Empire, not France.

PCT

All this talk about lies at the NYT and no one has blamed Clinton yet. You're slacking, Scrapplers.

KALAHARI DESERT, May 12 - Scott Ott is tired. Tired of the deceptions, tired of the pretense, tired of the New York Mets paying all that money to losers.

As he gazes from his porch overlooking the cornfields of the Kalahari, Ott comes clean about his scurrilous, filthy, Neanderthal and really icky-poopy web site.

"It was just a joke," he moans from the depths of what passes for his soul. He pauses to savor the dying gasps of tortured monkeys expiring over their typewriters. "First, the monkeys posted this little thing about Al Gore's undeniable hipness. I thought it was kind of funny."

Ott pauses as he gazes silently at the U.S. Third Infantry rolling though the Andes. "But then it just snowballed. It metastasized. It grew. It ate New York and Paris and Outer Mongolia. It smelled pretty bad after that."

"It" is the web site that destroyed its creator - the Frankenweb monster that shattered dreams, splattered guts, battered wives, clattered dishes. Ott still can't explain exactly what went so horribly wrong.

"Maybe it was that picture of Glenn Reynolds ripping livers out of kittens. I didn't know Glenn would get so, well, catty about it. Then the monkeys posted the item about Andrew Sullivan being a secret hetero. Oh God, the earth opened up after that one."

Now Ott can only stare stupidly at the poppy fields and llama pastures from his porch in the South Bronx. "Blogging kills brain cells," he mutters over and over in a strange but revealing mantra.

I had to cut and pste this from another topic since Frenchman wouldn't answer me there. What a surprise.

But Frenchman, it is fun living here in the uncivilzed wild west. The indians are bothersome at times but we've gone from fighting them to trading with them. of course, we wish that we could be more comfortable with all those modern-day civilized investions that you frnech created such as the assembly line, automobile, phone, tv, recordings, cd, computer, microchip, microwave oven, stereo, wireless technology, xray, and so many other things. I especially like the french space program, who would of thought a man could actually step foot on the moon. Your satellites are world reknown as well giving all of the communications and weather information around the world to predict potential catastrophy. The airplane has been a lifesaver. And your cinema, featuring the best of those great french actors and actresses. Where would we be without great french movies such as star wars, ET, more recently, Xmen2, Anger Management, Chicago, Lord of the Rings, Pearl Harbor, Men in Black, Black Hawk Down, Behind Enemy Lines, Cast Away, and that French blockbuster, Saving Private Ryan and many,many more.

I am sitting here typing this on my French made D'ell computer when my frecnh made le AT&T; phone rings. Our comoputer use a version of the french software giant Micro'soft NT software. (It has to be Frecnh because of the name which describes a frenchman's tool) I will go home in my Le Ford Explorer SUV.

Posted by: Darth Chef on May 12, 2003 11:47 AM

Can't type logically.... laughing to hard... Frenchman's tool... Hehehehe...!

I'm on my le Apple, the crappy French computer. Sitting learning about all the French scientists, and their contributions to physics. My last class was about the great French mathematition, Pythagorus. Eating my steak, Filet Mignon, of course. And drinking fine...

Yes, wine.

I ate french fri......never mind!

Hello I am a vietnam veteran who deserted and will be turned in to the authorities by Scott Ott unless I stay in a pit under his kitchen. It is in Hollywood, like Ajji Mah said.

My job is take bad words out of ScrappleFace posts. From my years with the National Guard in Nam and now with the television I hear upstairs I know bad words when I see them. I took two bad words out of yours, Paul Tindall you bad boy, from my pit in Hollywood.

Also I delete threats, which I can identify from Mr Otts phone conversations with his agents and the DNC, for whom he is a major fundraiser.

Mr Ott will let me out of the Pit some day when you people stop using bad words. Please stop. If maonkeys can you can.

French person.
1- take your thumb and your index finger and form them in a 90 degree angle.
2-Put this on your forehead.
3- Point your index finger toward yourself.

NEW YORK CITY, May 12 - After a prolonged, fair, impartial, and really swell internal investigation, Scrappleface has uncovered extensive fraud committed by poster Casey Abell.

Abell has resigned from Scrappleface and is recuperating from a severe hangover at an undisclosed bar.

Scott Ott, editor-in-chief and big-poobah at Scrappleface, made the following statement:

"Casey Abell made repeated fraudulent statements in previous posts. Everybody knows Glenn Reynolds feeds puppies into shredders. He doesn't do kittens, like casey said. And Andrew Sullivan is gay, for crying out loud. I mean, how could anybody miss that? Also, I called up the U.S. Third Infantry and found out they haven't rolled through the Andes in at least a week."

Abell's Scrappleface credit card accounts are being audited for unusual charges to various Las Vegas locations. Developing...

Scott I think you ought to hire Mr. Blair to work for you if you have any openings. He has shown a flair for making things up and making liberal institutions and ideas look bad in the process.

... Hungry U.N weapons inspectors found and confiscated cases of Cheetos from Mr. Ott's basement assuming the contraband was "agent orange".

...weapons inspectors sent to Iraq were those hired to meet the U.N. EOE requirements. They were seen throughout Iraq with white canes sliding back and forth. The canes however were not equipped with detection equipment.

After 12 patient years the project was found to be obviously flawed and troops were sent in to rearrange the furniture where the WMD's and the makings thereof are being uncovered by a visually and cerebrally equipped coalition. (leaving the government of France again forced to wear the military trademark "brown" pants--designed by "Frenchie the constipated blogger clogger)

Attentioning here to,
Imperialist,running, is yellow and the scrapplemask dog Frenchman which it operates.

As for you to learn many things with your supervision it is possible the country whose North Korea is large. When us what wanting, we not being the surrender monkey, may. As for us our nucleus missles are sounded, then us the threat which is paid, in order to become quiet because for a while.

You the collection of my immense looneytunes me remember. We like your creamy source very.

good nite all
and remember jesus loves all of us,including the sand monkeys,slant eyes and yes madame toussaint,even the french.

For all the french: "Freedom isn't free, unless you are from France."

to Frenchman
seems to me everyday another wmd truck is found in Iraq
gee French-EE lets talk about all the French made weapons found in Iraq dated after 911 maybe we should start looking in Paris for saddam and his wmd
your just sooo out of it its called in denial

Does this august journal have the same make-up in its newsroom as does that other famous New York newspaper - 80% gay?

Just wondering.

BREAKING NEWS - SCRAPPLEFACE SCANDEL

WASHINGTON DC-

Officials unofficially stated, without authorization, authorized off the record, stated on the record in behalf of, without his consent to do so consented to on the record, these off the record remarks regarding the scandal at scrappleface.

officially stated, that an injunction was filed for and in behalf of, unofficially for with and with out the consent of Scott Ott,
In The Supreme court of the United states to block the liberal bias against Mr.Ott with and without his consent to do so after a named and
unnamed official officially who wished to remain anonymous from a disclosed undisclosed highly secret location near the west coast in California someplace near Hollywood but not in Hollywood but closer to Compton
when asked for a comment Mr.Ott golf club in hand said " he would and would not comment on the case now pending in The Supreme Court"

Yes, Pitboss, I apologize for thinking the monkeys and slaves don't really run this site while Mr Ott plays Golf with Michael Moore and Kim Jung Il.

Hooray for Scott Ott!

And never again will I doubt the power of the Pitboss!

Uhhh... jp.... ummm.... yeah...

PCT

Please ..Please

Everyone be calm... Please

" There are NO Scott Otts in Baghdad "

dont be afraid

JP
Only a drunken Philadelphia lawyer could come up with a load of quadruple talk like that.
Still laughing, hard to
type from floor.

What newspaper in New York? I heard that they have one or two. I thought New York wasn't a real place, sort of like Hollywood. No one really takes the kind of things they say seriously, do they? Here in NJ, we tend to ignore them.

Mr. Ott, I hope that you will pay Ajji Mah a little more money. Or at least give her a share of the Cheetos after the UN inspectors are done with them. She sure deserves them after putting us with us.

Since Willy Ribs isn't running in the INDY 500, this year, my favorite driver is the pole sitter, Helio CASTROneves!

mike s
;-D
keep em laughing !

"...who has spent almost a year in the top editorial seat"

Well, thank goodness. That refutes the unfounded rumor that you've been leaving the seat up.

"Variety" headline: Scott Ott Got Caught!

***(some random guy said):

Variety" headline: Scott Ott Got Caught!

(I added:......while blogging on the pot...

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(see: -- "First iLoo Blogger Feels Performance Pressure" Forum

Hot Scrappleface News Flash...

Thousands of Democratic Party Members Brains, were Taken to ìGet them to Vote the Party Lineîwithout the Consent of Grieving Relatives

By Dr. Harden Stuhl, Scrappleface Health Editor

13 May 2003

The widow of a Democratic Party Member, whose husbands brain was removed, without his consent, after joining the Democratic party, described her three-year ordeal to find the truth yesterday, as this reporter revealed to her that he was aware that ,tens of thousands of brains had been taken without the knowledge of party members, to ìget them to vote the party lineî, since the early 1970s.

On the very same day the Democratic Party had announced new by-laws to loosen control over the taking of IQ tests, before party registration, Annabel Fairhaven launched a tirade of criticism at the party that had taken her husband's brain, ìsimply for party votesî.Things escalated even more seriously when they started ignoring her phone calls, or returning her husband's brain to where it had originally been taken from.

She said: "I am very, very angry about being here today. I have had to fight so hard to get this whole situation recognized. Our loved ones brains have been taken away, my husband's and thousands of others, it seems."

This reporter has found that, of the tens of thousands of brains that remained under the misguided direction of the Democratic Party, only 1,000 were actually returned and many of them were shockingly placed back in the wrong bodies, upside down.

ìIt was horrible". commented Juan Gonzales former Director of Publicity for the Democrats,î The night they attempted to return some of the brains to the party members,that had been removed,many of the brains were placed in the wrong bodies, and many of them upside down.Someone had lost the Steno Book that had all of the corresponding names and brain numbers on them. Party members who attempted to replace the brains were walking around in a dense fog for days. It was like the Chicago convention of 1968 meets ìNight of the Living Deadî. Their consistent drooling and lack of coherence, was something I will never forget. By that I mean,the party members who still had their original brains,the rest will progressively get better with conservative retraining and therapy. I just had to leave before it got any worse. I am now myself,a card carrying Republican.î Story DevelopingÖÖ

Scott has never plagiarized anything in his life, and you can sorta quote me on it. Well maybe not really. Okay go ahead.

HOWELL RAINES: you sound exactly like Hank on Green Acres!....well not really exactly....and not really SOUND because these are written words....well not really WRITTEN.... they're typed......and he's not really Hank because that's just his character name............

Helo. I'm eastern european war refugee ground keeprs for scott ott is me and iraki man from playing card deck with stupid name no can pernonce. Somebody say gay 80%? Not thinking so. When somebody gay comes we have to release the rotts. is big dog, no? Alla time somebody com to Ott Estate (Him call its Twelvse Oak) who is looking other different we release dogs. Then they ron away. One time when girl scouts come selling cookie Ott say "release hoonds" we just pretend and make dog noise to fool him but Ajji Mah turn us in and we get beating from Pitboss so dont come here.
Is maybe mean but front yard is minefield so is maybe nice to keep them out.

GEDDOUDA MY WAY!! I'M GONNA KILL THAT MAGGOT STUFFED FROGGY FRENCHMAN AND THEN IM GONNA FEDEX HIS SMELLY CARCASS TO PONG YANG, KOREA SO HIS FREIND, THE LITTLE RUNT, CAN SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THEY MESS WITH THE US.

...........Rough crowd! Rough crowd in here tonite!

OK - you guys take some getting used to.
I enjoy Scott's posts so much I guess I will learn to put up with some of your comments.
I really am conservative, but I believe I have different viewpoints on events than most of you - from what I read of these posts.
In any event - I will be around - to hassle or be hassled!

JohnS

JohnS,

Welcome to Scrappledom. We are all pretty much conservatives around here, with the exception of a few who pop up here now and then. We tend to get a little scraphappy from the daily pressures of life. That is what makes us scrapplers. Scott is nutjob and I mean that in the nicest way.

Scott makes us laugh...and so does Frenchman.

Cheers

Dear Darth Chef,

Are you sure that you discovered automobile, phone, tv, recordings and xray ?

About the man on the moon, do you know that Von Braun was a Nazi?

Do you really think that movies such as star wars, ET, more recently, Xmen2, Anger Management, Chicago, Lord of the Rings, Pearl Harbor, Men in Black, Black Hawk Down, Behind Enemy Lines, Cast Away, and Saving Private Ryan are something else than entertainment for uneducated plebs ?

Dear JP,

You said "seems to me everyday another wmd truck is found in Iraq"

Seems to me that everyday another statement is spread and proved false the next day.

Perhaps the Iraqi weapons of Mass Destruction are hidden under the French Passports ?

With a machine or technique, the word is "invent."
Auto: no, go ask Daimler and Benz. What an American did was mass produce them so that the ordinary citizen could afford one.
Airplane: Yes, many French aeronautics pioneers were working on it, along with some Germans and Austrians, but the Wright brothers did it first.
Telephone: Yes, son of Scots immigrants.
Light Bulb, Motion Picture, Phonograph, etc: Yes. Thomas Edison (belated apologies for his agents' theft of the seminal science-fiction movie Voyage to the Moon, by Milliere (sp?)).
Computer: Yes
Integrated Circuits: Yes
Liquid-fuel rocket motor: Yes, Robert Goddard. von Braun used his design as a basis for the V-2 engines.

Yes, every major technical advance for more than the past century has come from the American continent. Even if they weren't born here, the "can-do" spirit and sense of adventure and possibility fostered their work (go look up Nikola Tesla).

As for our movies, if you don't like them, don't watch them. They are, for the most part, simple entertainment. Their only purpose, aside from making $$ for Hollywood, is to be fun to watch.
Need they have any other purpose?

As for the WMDs, so what. Purpose acheived. Saddam was removed from power.

Where else in this country, or for that matter, any other country, can a corporation which supplies one product to the public, fail egregiously and deliberately to deliver its product, dissemble, lie, cheat, and whine to cover up the failure, and finally, blame one employee for the entire fiasco. But wait! There are quite a few who are not only willing but also anxious to allow this corporation to get away with its reputation and its prestige untarnished.

Is there an area of corporate behavior and ethical consideration left unsullied by the New York Times? I don't think so! If any, and I do mean ANY outfit covered by the Times' reporters (and I use the term loosely) pulled a stunt like this one, they would pounce on the hapless "victim" as quickly as Teddy Kennedy jumps on a bottle of Stolichnaya. I'd say quicker, but I don't think that that is a speed capable of being achieved by man.

Dear some random guy

About your movies, I don't like them and I don't watch them.

They are entertainment for brainwashed plebs.

Another purpose for movies could be helping people to open their mind and think.

As for the WMDs, we are still waiting for an independant body of inspectors to find them.

One thing the Frenchman is good at, is disinformation that supports his less than hidden agenda.

For those of you who would like a more balanced approach to Werhner Von Braun follow this link.

http://www.business.uab.edu/cache/wvbcomm.htm

We are all guilty of some indifference when it comes to the injustices of this world, and that is a terrible thing, but to use Von Braun as an example, is only a feeble attempt to hide the silence of the French and their own unique ability to stand idly by, while thousand of Jews were being killed and tortured. We all share guilt in that, "Frenchie"! Hitler was a nasty, nasty man.France doesn't get a free ride because they were one of the first countries to cower in fear from the Third Reich. It went on long before he took over your sinkhole.Where was all of Frances righteous indignation then? Probably preparing vacation suites in the Ch‚teau de la FlocelliËre for visiting German dignitaries....

Just another example of French political convenience. Make a statement, blame everybody else and claim a perfect historical aristocracy.

I donít like American movies, they are too violent for enlightened minds like mine.
They are more suited for Neandrathal neo-cons who are just brainwashed by Scott Ott.
I am so educated and my brain is so big.

Where are the WMD?
This war was about OIL.

"uneducated plebs ?"

This coming from a country that worships Jerry Lewis.....and gave us the great theologians of mime,
Marcel Marceau,Etienne Decroux, and who can ever forget Jacques Lecoq.

Oh my God, I can't believe I actually know who they are,this must be what the first stages of insanity are like...

BTW- "A team of experts searching for evidence of biological and chemical weapons in Iraq has concluded that a trailer found near Mosul in northern Iraq in April is a mobile biological weapons laboratory, the three team members said today." -the NY Times

Wow frenchman, its been 3 whole days and it hasn't been proved false yet. Maybe this ones true.

Darth Chef,

Was Xmen2 any good? I have a lot of uneducating to do with my niece and nephew this weekend. They like non-fictional movies. :)

X-Men 2 rocked!
I wanna grow up and be just like Wolverine.

But then again, I am only an uneducated "pleb."

Last French movies I liked were "LaFemme Nikita" and "La Cage Au Folles." Neither one was educational, and one was quite violent.

Frenchman posted

"Seems to me that everyday another statement is spread and proved false the next day."
____________

well we are waiting..
the next day came and went and it still stands

don't be so sad its only proof ....
ps please believe

some random guy:
"Last French movies I liked were "LaFemme Nikita" and "La Cage Au Folles." Neither one was educational, and one was quite violent."
and this is why you liked them...

Yup! I go to the movies for entertainment.
When I want eddykashun, I read books, and watch cool shows on the History Channel, Discovery, TLC, etc.
Movies are eye candy, junk food for the brain, just for fun.
Those "serious, educational, meaningful films" are incredible boring. Combine that with a dark theater and a comfy chair and it's instant nap-time.

To Frenchmans Girl

"I don’t like American movies, they are too violent for enlightened minds like mine." I agree.

"They are more suited for NeandERthal neo-cons." I agree.

I am certaily more educated than many of you but it is not difficult. Everybody know that the average level of education in the US is low.

"Where are the WMD?" That is the question.

"This war was about OIL." Yes, of course !

Ooooo...Big Bad Americans make movies too scary for Frenchman.

Poor widdle Frenchy.

US movies are too vulgar for me.

Another thing you always forget (me also sometimes): The US is IN America. It is not America.

I always said Manifest Destiny should have gone north and south as well as west.

It's called "the United States of America." Those who live there are referred to as "Americans', and the country is commonly referred to as "the U.S." or "America."
The country is part of the North American continent.

Kind of like the Republic of France is referred to as France, and the inhabitants are referred to as "Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys." And the country is part of the "Axis of Weasels."

Frenchman,

One of my favorite French movies was " The Red Balloon". The story of Pascal, a lonely French boy, who befriends a wonderous red balloon which follows him everywhere.

To me at least, [And I am by no means a movie critic]it is a wonderful example that has come from the combination of French culture,France's love of art and the obvious directing prowness of director Albert Lamorisse. I must admit I never left my seat during it's viewing.The decision for the director to use his own son "Pascal" as the star was simply refreshing.Still, stunned with all of its perfection as I was, I can't help but feel incomplete and almost cheated. Will there ever be a sequel? A Red Ballon 2? The balloon just simply floated away. It was very sad.I figured you might know because you are so much more intelligent and cultured than us....

Frenchman,

I'm sorry I couldn't finish my post above. I got so teary eyed. France offers so much to world, if only we would learn to take her gifts with a humble heart...

*sniffle* *sniffle*...what an endearing post to Frenchman. Poor weasel is probably crying, too because you stirred up all those sad memories of that red balloon. Maybe NOT...Frenchie prefers YELLOW and may not have liked the red balloon. Besides...I don't think he's a lonely French boy...but rather a lonely Parrot!

Frenchie! you could save yourself and the rest of us alot of time by just coming into the ScrappleFace room and posting:
"beat me , beat me"......

Everytime you post ANYTHING (a.k.a Your impersonation of Baghdad Bob ( Comical Ali) it's always with met with a barrage of the facts!...Do you LIKE "abuse"??

For those Scrapple facers who like to be exposed to the whole genre of "Balloon" movies.France isn't the only country to produce them. There is an excellant "Balloon" movie that came from Iran called "The White Balloon". I took the liberty of supplying you the plot summary.

Plot Summary:

A young girl's desire for a pretty goldfish her family cannot afford sparks an adventure in this wonderfully charming film, which won the Camera d'Or (best first film) at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.

With the shops about to close for the New Year holiday in Tehran, seven-year-old Razieh pleads with her mother to buy a big goldfish she has seen at the pet store. Razieh's brother Ali persuades their mother to give in and, with the family's last bank note in hand, Razieh gleefully sets out to buy her fish. But along the way, she meets up with snake charmers, a balloon salesman and a dry cleaner and loses her money. With the help of her brother, Razieh, she desperately tries to retrieve her money, buy the fish and get home before her parents find out what's happened.

You will never see a finer performance than Aida Mohammadkhani's, award winning stuff.

Look at what the "Critics" said,

A miracle! Profound!
- Lloyd Sachs, Chicago Sun-Times

Enriching! Precision and poetry!
- Desson Howe, The Washington Post

It's a marvel!
- Dave Kehr, New York Daily News

Beguiling! Touching! Eye-opening!
- Jay Carr, Boston Globe

A sweet-natured film!
- Larry Worth, New York Post

Perfect Simplicity.
- Janet Maslin, The New York Times

Extraordinary
- Tom Keogh, Seattle Weekly

A nearly perfect gem! Dazzling!
- Geoff Pevere, Toronto Globe & Mail

We should veto this movie!
-Renaud Raffier, The Socialist French Times

Better than any Balloon Movie,the French ever made!
- Dr. Harden Stuhl Scrappleface Health Editor

The same critics who said Star Wars would never make a dime (see Time magazine in '77).

What the critics didn't see in the Iranian balloon movie was the girl being arrested and beaten by the religious police for being in public without a male family member to escort her.

au franÁais

Je suis triste ces franÁais mots qui avertissent n'ont jamais ÈtÈ entendus
les mots d'un nobal franÁais

Par la discorde negligence Gauloyse
Sera passaige a Mahommet ouvert:
De sang trempe la terre & mer Senoyse
Le port Phocen de voiles & nefs couvert.

France ‡ cinq pars neglect assailie
Tunys,Argiels esmeus par Perfiens,
Leon,Seville,Barcelonne faillie
N'aura la classe par les Venitiens

les vieux amis se battent, mais dans l'amitiÈ de fin toujours est

Frenchman,
It is obvious that you have watched our movies many times to pass such an erudite, knowledgeable assessment of them. I bet we could find out how many you rent at Le Blockbuster de Paris.

You more than likely laughed yourself silly at "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", and stood in line to watch "The Two Towers" cause you wanted to find out what happened to Gandalf.

Recent offerings at Cannes? I dunno. I don't watch movies...can't afford to so I use Pay Per View All Day Ticket. I also have noted that we don't have a foreign film channel yet, and if that ever happens, I am switching satellite providers.

I refuse to eat Yoplait because I am boycotting things french. And now with the bombing in Riyadh, I am going on a search to find ONLY American gasoline in my tank. If that means I walk, or bike, then so be it.

"...and stood in line to watch "The Two Towers" cause you wanted to find out what happened to Gandalf."
it seems that you didn't stood in a line to buy the book

"I refuse to eat Yoplait because I am boycotting things french"
Beware, intelligence is not french, Cricket, stop boycotting!

"And now with the bombing in Riyadh, I am going on a search to find ONLY American gasoline in my tank. If that means I walk, or bike, then so be it."
American gasoline made with Iraqi oil

Max,
You underwhelm me with your version of wit. WE KNOW intelligence is not french. Nor is common sense. It is American, HOO-AH!

What is this oh-so-witty comeback: "You didn't even stand in line to buy the book.?"

Darn straight I didn't stand in line to buy the book because thirty years ago I didn't have to. Tolkien was the master of fantasy, and for all your alleged socialist leanings, you more than likely read Lord of the Rings too, right? Come on now, admit it, you liked it...

So what if American gas is made with IRAQI oil? At least it is not ARAB oil.

Maxine,

You read the Lord of the Rings and you fantasized yourself as an Orc, with Jacque-pot ChIraq as Saruman.

Go give Moussaoui his cootie check, or just give your cooties to him.

I am shocked and stunned! The highly respectible Scrappleface not printing the purest truth! Off with Scott's head!

Where can I buy his book?