# Let's rename France

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-france/160864>\
**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:** 5\
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**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-france/160864/61 "2003-03-13T14:35:43Z")

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Maybe instead we should steal their name.

“We’re from France.”

“Unh-uh. _We’re_ from France.”

“What?!?”

“See the sign? It says, ‘Welcome to the United States of France.’ So there. We’re French and you’re not. Neener, neener, neener.”

“This is absurd.”

“I don’t understand. What’s this word… ‘absurd’? You’re not allowed to speak anything but French here.”

“Sacre bleu.” [walks away]

“That’s right, you and your non-French talk can just go back home for all I care!”

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**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-france/160864/62 "2003-03-13T14:36:24Z")

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You know my last name really is French.

I expect to be getting a memo soon.

Somehow Cindi Freedom just doesn’t sound that bad to me.

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**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-france/160864/63 "2003-03-13T15:50:26Z")

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“Cindi Freedom”

sounds like that name should come with super powers.

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**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-france/160864/64 "2003-03-13T18:19:13Z")

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Schickless?  
Oil For Blood?  
Learsi?

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**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-france/160864/65 "2003-03-13T21:30:38Z")

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> _originally posted by jjimm_
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> They only seem to be called “French Fries” in North America. Over here we call them chips, though in US fast food joints they’re called “fries”.

Actually, I just mean you can find a deep fried potato stick of some name in virtually every country in the world. Actually, my mother used to call them chips and I’d never know what the heck she was talking about. Eventually whenever she’d ask me to pick up chips at the grocery store, I’d buy a bag of Ruffles (or Lays) just to mess with her. _I_ found it funny.

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