# KILL THE FRENCH!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 22, 2001, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kill-the-french/83174 "2001-09-22T05:44:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tavalla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tavalla/32/89_2.png) [@tavalla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tavalla)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kill-the-french/83174/21 "2001-09-22T10:11:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kvallulf \* > \*\*next you’ll tell me Outback steakhouse isnt really Australian, or that Fosters really isnt Australian for beer! \*\* Can’t comment on Outback Steakhouse, but nope, Fosters? : ptooey : Give me a VB any day. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kill-the-french/83174/22 "2001-09-22T11:36:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kvallulf \* > \*\* Bomb Antartica!!! \*\* THAT’S IT!! IT’S THOSE G\*D\*\*N PENGUINS!! IT’S THEM!!! I KNEW IT! I never trusted them. Sure, they make great butlers & waiters, but **they steal the silverware!!** IT’S A CONSPIRACY!! THE PENGUINS!! AND THE HAMSTERS, TOO! YES, **THE HAMSTERS!** \Those **d** n\*\* hamsters, with their Hypodermic needles, and their atomic bombs!\ [sub]Atomic Fried Hamsters…MMMMMmm! Thems good eatin’.[/sub] 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kill-the-french/83174/23 "2001-09-24T01:44:18Z")
I know what we can do…bomb all of Afghanistan, then we can capture bin Laden, and send him to France, and then bomb all of France! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mersavets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aca169/32.png) [@Mersavets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mersavets)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kill-the-french/83174/24 "2001-09-24T02:55:05Z")
**Reprise**? A few minor points of order. First, we do change our laws when they become inconvenient. Witness Howard removing Ashmore Reef from our immigration zone when the Afghanis on the Tampa were trying to get in. Second, I don’t think if co-conspirators were found here in Australia that they would be killed. We just don’t seem to have that much of a mob mentality when it really comes down to it no matter what people say in the heat of the moment. Third, the PM can’t change the legislation without consulting Parliament. If he has a majority in both houses and the High Court backs him, then Parliament becomes just a rubber stamp but he must still do it through the Parliament. The Government will get a chance at getting just such a majority after a maximum period of _three_ years not four. Finally, we may have the largest claims to Antarctic territory but hardly anybody else cares. Russia and the US don’t recognise our claims or those of NZ, Norway or anybody else. When Bush decides to drill for oil amongst the penguins (on our claim), we will have no legal standing when we doubtless declare war on the US. Which is beside the point because I don’t think the US recognises the ICJ’s (or any other international body’s) jurisdiction when it hands down vericts _against_ the US. Aside from this, I agree with what you have to say. Mostly. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kill-the-french/83174/25 "2001-09-24T12:05:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arden Ranger \* > \*\*But… > > You can’t bomb France! My most favorite hot chocolate comes from France! \*\* Mmmmm…Angelina’s hot chocolate…mmmm…\\ Maybe we can just bomb Outback steakhouses. And Paul Hogan. ---
**Author:** ![apotheosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@apotheosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apotheosis)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kill-the-french/83174/26 "2001-09-24T12:09:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jr8 \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Arden Ranger \* > > \*\*But… > > > > You can’t bomb France! My most favorite hot chocolate comes from France! \*\* > > Mmmmm…Angelina’s hot chocolate…mmmm…\\ > > Maybe we can just bomb Outback steakhouses. And Paul Hogan. \*\* Might as well get Yahoo Serious, as long as you’re in the neighborhood. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kill-the-french/83174/27 "2001-09-25T04:40:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by matt\_mcl \* > \*\*You watch your fucking step. > > Says, > Matt (from Montreal) \*\* I’m right behind you, **matt**. I’d rather not have the childhood home of my departed grandmother be anywhere near a bomb. Or, for that matter, the homes and/or persons/belongings of her friends and family there. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kill-the-french/83174/28 "2001-09-25T13:27:59Z")
Saw a funny interview last night with some of the taliban fighters(?) They said all the problems in the world were casued by America and France! Oh yeah, right. Seems reasonable. Also, one guy said “Well, if I were a doctor, I’d be healing people. He’s (osama) a terrorist, so he does his terrorist thing.” Ha! ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kill-the-french/83174/29 "2001-09-25T15:54:18Z")
No one likes us-I don’t know why We may not be perfect, but heaven knows we try But all around, even our old friends put us down Let’s drop the big one and see what happens . . . Asia’s too crowded and Europe’s too old Africa is far too hot And Canada’s too cold And South America stole our name Let’s drop the big one There’ll be no one left to blame us We’ll save Australia Don’t wanna hurt no kangaroo We’ll build an All American amusement park there They got surfin’, too Boom goes London and boom Paree More room for you and more room for me . . . They all hate us anyhow So let’s drop the big one now Let’s drop the big one now [Political Science](http://www.randynewman.com/sail_away.html), by Randy Newman [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kill-the-french/83174.md?page=1)