# Happy Bastille Day! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 14, 2002, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-bastille-day/118919 "2002-07-14T15:26:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![red\_dragon60](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@red\_dragon60](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/red_dragon60)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2002, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-bastille-day/118919/1 "2002-07-14T15:26:49Z")
Ya cheese-eating surrender monkeys! ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2002, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-bastille-day/118919/2 "2002-07-14T22:43:17Z")
😕 ---
**Author:** ![red\_dragon60](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@red\_dragon60](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/red_dragon60)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-bastille-day/118919/3 "2002-07-15T00:29:59Z")
French national holiday today. Waiting for **matt** to get in here… ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-bastille-day/118919/4 "2002-07-15T02:41:20Z")
I always loved going down to the Orleans-Olivet bridge over the Loire to watch the Bastille Day fireworks show. I don’t think I’ve been there in the summer for over 10 years now. Anyway, Chirac had a [close call](http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/07/14/france.gunman/index.html) during the parade this morning. Glad to hear nobody was hurt. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-bastille-day/118919/5 "2002-07-15T03:45:09Z")
Although my heritage is English/Irish/and Scottish, and as an American, I’m completely apothetic towards the French, I must say, I’ve had a pretty wonderful holiday. Well, aside from the working, a friend of mine cooked a shitload of wonderful amazing food, so during my dinner break, I had a whole bunch of stuff I can’t pronounce, some lamb, chicken, and more wine than I should for someone that had to go back to work after an hour and a half. But free food, good friends, and wine…I never thought I’d say this, but Thank you, France! Happy Bastille Day!!! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-bastille-day/118919/6 "2002-07-15T14:17:26Z")
Yeah. Tell that to the Princesse de Lamballe . . . ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-bastille-day/118919/7 "2002-07-15T16:37:22Z")
> [@](#): > > Waiting for matt to get in here… Quebecer, dear. I had both of mine weeks ago. Anyway, hear about the assassination attempt? What’s up with that? ---
**Author:** ![red\_dragon60](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@red\_dragon60](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/red_dragon60)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2002, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-bastille-day/118919/8 "2002-07-16T04:24:15Z")
I read about it in the paper today Matt. I wonder what he was trying to do with a .22 rifle, scratch Cherac’s clothes? The French can’t do assassinations like us Merikans can!