# Let's rename France **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 12, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-france/160864 "2003-03-12T16:51:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-france/160864/1 "2003-03-12T16:51:35Z")
(Before David Letterman does) Seeing as how we can’t say F\*\*\*\*\* Fries or F\*\*\*\*\* Toast any more, it seems to me we need to just rename the country and be done with it: Lower Belgium Southwest Germany The Spanish-Prussian Isthmus ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-france/160864/2 "2003-03-12T16:56:16Z")
I realize you mean this humorously, but it’s likely to start a Great Debate or even a flame war. It wouldn’t surprise me if a moderator moved this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-france/160864/3 "2003-03-12T17:06:17Z")
Ah, come on. If anything, it’s making fun of some Americans rather than the French. I suggest _Territoire d’Hollande du Sud_. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-france/160864/4 "2003-03-12T17:08:59Z")
I vote for renaming France ‘Freedom’. That would screw with the fuddy-duddies in Congress who insist on calling their potatoes Freedom Fries. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-france/160864/5 "2003-03-12T17:11:49Z")
_les personnes raisonnables_ ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-france/160864/6 "2003-03-12T17:14:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LlamaPoet \* > \*\*I vote for renaming France ‘Freedom’. That would screw with the fuddy-duddies in Congress who insist on calling their potatoes Freedom Fries. \*\* Two thumbs up. That’s hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![elfje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19b73/32.png) [@elfje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfje)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-france/160864/7 "2003-03-12T17:16:18Z")
lower belgium? I don’t think you could’ve insulted the French more! They’ve hated Flemish guts since we kicked their arses in 1302! hehe…lower belgium…nice one moehahahaha!! ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-france/160864/8 "2003-03-12T17:18:43Z")
I like Lower Belgium too. Howabout: **Disney’s Gaul Experience™!** ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-france/160864/9 "2003-03-12T17:19:39Z")
Hello, Air Freedom? Yes, I’d like two tickets to Freedom please. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-france/160864/10 "2003-03-12T17:23:55Z")
[slight hijack] In keeping with the amusement park theme… “White Flags over Paris” [/slight hijack] ---
**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:** [March 12, 2003, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-france/160864/11 "2003-03-12T17:24:54Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by_\* jjimm \*\*\* > Two thumbs up. Make that four. I couldn’t believe it when I heard about this. I thought this foolishness was over with when the one restaurant owner in Florida or wherever got laughed at for doing it. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-france/160864/12 "2003-03-12T17:29:12Z")
[hijack]Ticket to Freedom!! Would you believe a friend and I wrote a song with that title about 35 years ago?? It was a terrible song, but we thought we were up-and-coming songwriters in junior high.[/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-france/160864/13 "2003-03-12T17:30:45Z")
I say we rename it “Kinda looks like Wisconsin if you squint.” Because after all, nothing is more American than our proud nation’s dairy farmers, God bless 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-france/160864/14 "2003-03-12T17:45:18Z")
C’mon, one of the few pieces of Latin everybody knows, courtesy of Gaius Julius Caesar, provides the perfect term for a nation that would dare stand against _Our President’s Righteous Campaign against the Axis of Evil_: **Gall!** ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-france/160864/15 "2003-03-12T17:50:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Attrayant \* > \*\*Hello, Air Freedom? Yes, I’d like two tickets to Freedom please. > > 😃 \*\* [Eddie Money]I got two tickets to freeeeedom![/Eddie Money] Looks like a runaway victory for Freedom! Freedom has my vote too, the official name being the Fraternal Egalitarian Republic of Freedom. _Territoire d’Hollande du Sud_, jamais de la vie! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-france/160864/16 "2003-03-12T17:55:01Z")
_OuiOuiLand_ ---
**Author:** ![elfje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19b73/32.png) [@elfje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfje)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-france/160864/17 "2003-03-12T17:58:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Polycarp \* > \*\*C’mon, one of the few pieces of Latin everybody knows, courtesy of Gaius Julius Caesar, provides the perfect term for a nation that would dare stand against _Our President’s Righteous Campaign against the Axis of Evil_: **Gall!** \*\* Gall? Gaule, maybe? But not all the Gauls are French… “and all the Gauls of Ireland are the men that make God mad as all their wars are merry and all their songs are sad” not mine, obviously, But If you want i can look it up for ya! ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-france/160864/18 "2003-03-12T18:03:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Polycarp \* > **Gall!** \ ---
**Author:** ![DrLizardo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5fc32e/32.png) [@DrLizardo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrLizardo)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-france/160864/19 "2003-03-12T18:22:45Z")
Hmmm. I vote for: Shagging Spanner: French = \*\*\*\*ing Wrench = Shagging Spanner! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-france/160864/20 "2003-03-12T18:35:07Z")
_Le Republique d’Escargot_ 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-france/160864.md?page=2)