# If Ever a Visiting Frenchman Needed to be Pantsed . . . **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 3, 2002, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-ever-a-visiting-frenchman-needed-to-be-pantsed/140280 "2002-12-03T21:23:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-ever-a-visiting-frenchman-needed-to-be-pantsed/140280/1 "2002-12-03T21:23:10Z")
NEW YORK (AP)—A French author who suggests that the Sept. 11 attacks were devised by a faction of the U.S. military is planning to promote his book on a tour that will begin in New York City. Thierry Meyssan’s book, _9-11, The Big Lie_, also suggests that the Pentagon was hit by an American missile, and not a hijacked airliner. USA Books, a subsidiary of the book’s French publisher, said he could launch the tour as early as this month. The French press ridiculed the book, but it became a best seller in France for three months. The Pentagon has called the allegations in the book “more than insulting.” Lt. Col. Ken McClellan, a Defense Department spokesman, said Monday he was appalled that Meyssan is planning a U.S. visit. —I am normally not in favor of shouting people down, but this guy really is in need of a . . . well, serious wedgie, at the very least. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-ever-a-visiting-frenchman-needed-to-be-pantsed/140280/2 "2002-12-03T21:26:39Z")
And yet again froglegs taste like chicken. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-ever-a-visiting-frenchman-needed-to-be-pantsed/140280/3 "2002-12-03T21:28:04Z")
It seems 50 million Frenchmen _can_ be wrong! ---
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-ever-a-visiting-frenchman-needed-to-be-pantsed/140280/4 "2002-12-03T21:28:27Z")
I agree with you there Eve. He is starting his propaganda tour in NYC? I bet he will meet a pretty icy reception. If he comes to DC he may well be lynched, that is if he doesn’t get lynched in NYC. I don’t even want to comment upon the stupidity of him saying that the plane that hit the Pentagon was really a missile. How about we make a fund for him to buy him a tinfoil hat to ward off the mind control rays while we are at it? ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-ever-a-visiting-frenchman-needed-to-be-pantsed/140280/5 "2002-12-03T21:32:03Z")
And, in true American form, the press will give him all sorts of free press in every town he visits. ---
**Author:** ![Daoloth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Daoloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daoloth)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-ever-a-visiting-frenchman-needed-to-be-pantsed/140280/6 "2002-12-03T22:19:56Z")
This is awesome. I can’t wait to see the vast amounts of heckling he’ll be getting. If he ever comes to Houston, I can’t decide which I’d rather do…Be in a crowd insulting him, or getting his autograph for morbid curiousity/eBay values… ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-ever-a-visiting-frenchman-needed-to-be-pantsed/140280/7 "2002-12-03T22:48:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*It seems 50 million Frenchmen _can_ be wrong! \*\* didn’t Jerry Lewis **prove** that? ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-ever-a-visiting-frenchman-needed-to-be-pantsed/140280/8 "2002-12-03T22:59:19Z")
Somebody call Buzz Aldrin. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-ever-a-visiting-frenchman-needed-to-be-pantsed/140280/9 "2002-12-04T00:32:40Z")
Can you imagine the 911 call to the NYPD when the crowd gets out of hand? Caller: Help! There’s a riot at the Borders Books! 911 Operator: Calm down, calm down. What caused the riot? Caller: Well, there was this guy here doing a book signing for this book he wrote about how the US military planned the 9/11 attacks… \ Caller: Hello! Hello! Are you there? \ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-ever-a-visiting-frenchman-needed-to-be-pantsed/140280/10 "2002-12-04T02:24:20Z")
**Eve** , ya want volunteers? \ ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-ever-a-visiting-frenchman-needed-to-be-pantsed/140280/11 "2002-12-04T02:27:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*It seems 50 million Frenchmen _can_ be wrong! \*\* 50 millions perhaps could …But 60 millions of us can’t… ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-ever-a-visiting-frenchman-needed-to-be-pantsed/140280/12 "2002-12-04T02:34:06Z")
Maybe all 60 million of you need a good pantsing. Although you weirdos would probably enjoy it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-ever-a-visiting-frenchman-needed-to-be-pantsed/140280/13 "2002-12-04T02:35:54Z")
Americans are so goofy now I predict no rioting and good solid sales fo his silly book. Heck, he might get on Good Morning America in the name of “fairness.” I like the wedgie idea myself. ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-ever-a-visiting-frenchman-needed-to-be-pantsed/140280/14 "2002-12-04T02:42:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by PunditLisa \* > \*\*And, in true American form, the press will give him all sorts of free press in every town he visits. \*\* That’s not such a bad idea. It will provide a signal for the _next_ missile to home in on. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-ever-a-visiting-frenchman-needed-to-be-pantsed/140280/15 "2002-12-04T03:10:58Z")
Other books by Thierry Meyssan\* (as listed on [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com)):[ul][_]Pentagate (the Pentagon was hit by something other than AA Flight 77.)[_]_La Terrible Impostura_ (judging by the cover picture, something other than AA Flight 77 hit the Pentagon.)_L’Effroyable Imposture: 11 Septembre 2001_ (no picture and the one review isn’t very descriptive, so this one be about almost anything.)[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-ever-a-visiting-frenchman-needed-to-be-pantsed/140280/16 "2002-12-04T03:12:54Z")
\*Does reading that name aloud bring out the really, really bad French accent in anyone else? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-ever-a-visiting-frenchman-needed-to-be-pantsed/140280/17 "2002-12-04T03:20:20Z")
> [@](#): > > _From the OP_ > The French press ridiculed the book, but it became a best seller in France for three months. Call me a pollyanna, but I take this as a sign of the subtle wit and understated humor of the French people. Jerry Lewis not withstanding. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-ever-a-visiting-frenchman-needed-to-be-pantsed/140280/18 "2002-12-04T05:57:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by \*\*minty green \*\*\* > Somebody call Buzz Aldrin. I just woke up the whole neighborhood with my laughing. As to the OP… there are a lot of stupid-dumb crackpots in this world. I try to keep my panties un-bunched and my knickers twist-free about this sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-ever-a-visiting-frenchman-needed-to-be-pantsed/140280/19 "2002-12-04T06:14:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cornflakes \* > \*\*\*Does reading that name aloud bring out the really, really bad French accent in anyone else? \*\* Isn’t “bad French accent” redundant? [sub]nuke paris…nuke paris…nuke paris…\*\* Hey, at least it would reduce the number of the idiotic farmers demanding greater subsidies! ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-ever-a-visiting-frenchman-needed-to-be-pantsed/140280/20 "2002-12-04T06:54:54Z")
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