The Reids

Following up to Keith Anderson

    >"job centres must treat employers looking for a prostitute in the same
    >way as those looking for a dental nurse"

Pimping is surely illegal? IIRC the real case was about
strippers, there is of course risk that they might end up as
prostitutes.
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The Reids

Following up to The Rev Gaston

    >> Americans often call the U.S. "The land of the free."
    >So do a lot of people, but they're being sarcastic.

I cant visualise the usage.

"Hello, i'm from America, land of the free" is not going to make
you look other than an idiot.

But I may try out "hello, i'm British, land of hope and glory"
next time i'm asked.
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Nitram

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 00:42:26 +0100, Magda <[email protected]>
wrote:

    >On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 00:37:07 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, nitram <[email protected]> arranged
    >some electrons, so they looked like this :
    > ... On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 00:33:18 +0100, Magda <[email protected]>
    > ... wrote:
    > ...
    > ... >On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 23:08:06 +0000, in rec.travel.europe, Keith Anderson
    > ... ><[email protected]> arranged some electrons, so they looked like this :
    > ... > ...
    > ... > ... Actually, I've been getting in touch with my feminine side recently,
    > ... > ... so now I'm always right. :-)
    > ... >
    > ... >You better don't be a young woman in Germany right now :
    > ... >http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...30/wgerm30.xml
    > ...
    > ... A right wing anti-EU/Europe newspaper.
    > ...
    > ... Articles like this are to be taken with a pinch of salt.
    > ...
    > ... White slave trade next?
    >The German present can confirm this ?

I didn't get a German present. What did you get?
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Martin

Nitram

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 09:04:23 +0100, Tim Challenger
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 23:08:54 +0100, Robert Clark wrote:
    >> Tim Challenger wrote:
    >>> On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 15:22:47 +0100, Zinzan wrote:
    >>>
    >>>>Le 1 Feb 2005 06:13:30 -0800, "Jim Pflaum" <[email protected]> a
    >>>>écrit :
    >>>>>I searched the Net's travel sites but didn't see any nickname for
    >>>>>France. I know that Paris is called "The city of lights," but does
    >>>>>France have a nickname or slogan? Thanks!
    >>>>L'hexagone.
    >>>
    >>> ??? Where does that come from?
    >>
    >> Because it is shaped like one.
    >Only with a liberal helping of imagination, or wine. But I can see it now
    >it's been pointed out. That would make the nickname for Sweden "penisen"
    >(see the ¤2 coin). ;-)

Not to mention the abominable Peniscola.
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Martin

Nitram

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 09:07:33 +0100, Tim Challenger
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 14:53:25 -0800, poldy wrote:
    >> In article <[email protected]>,
    >> Mxsmanic <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>
    >>> Jim Pflaum writes:
    >>>
    >>>> Does France, like many other countries, have a common nickname?
    >>>> Americans often call the U.S. "The land of the free." Some Britts call
    >>>> England "the land of hope and glory."
    >>>>
    >>>> I searched the Net's travel sites but didn't see any nickname for
    >>>> France. I know that Paris is called "The city of lights," but does
    >>>> France have a nickname or slogan? Thanks!
    >>>
    >>> L'Hexagone is often used in France (because of the way the country is
    >>> shaped). The anthropomorphic metaphor for the country is Marianne, a
    >>> woman wearing a Phrygian (or Liberty) cap. Sometimes the country is
    >>> represented as a rooster (le coq gaulois).
    >>
    >> Land of the cheese-eating surrender monkeys!
    >ho ho ho. I haven't heard that one before.

You haven't being paying attention, it appears in this group
regularly.
--
Martin

Nitram

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 09:08:51 +0100, Tim Challenger
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 18:45:11 +0100, Carlus wrote:
    >> "Miss L. Toe" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de
    >> news: [email protected]...
    >>> Frogland ?
    >>
    >> you are wrong, we don't call our country "Frogland"
    >no, but others do. The question was about *any* nicknames, not just those
    >given by the French.

and we don't go about calling each other Rosbiefs.
--
Martin

The Reids

Following up to nitram

    >>> Land of the cheese-eating surrender monkeys!
    >>ho ho ho. I haven't heard that one before.
    >You haven't being paying attention, it appears in this group
    >regularly.

You can judge how Iraq is going by it. Inverse proportion to good
prospects in Middle East.
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Miss L. Toe

"Magda" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
    > On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 22:26:31 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, nitram
<[email protected]> arranged
    > some electrons, so they looked like this :
    > ... On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 22:04:57 +0100, Magda <[email protected]>
    > ... wrote:
    > ...
    > ... >On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 21:18:01 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, nitram
<[email protected]> arranged
    > ... >some electrons, so they looked like this :
    > ... >
    > ... > ... On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 16:44:26 -0000, "Miss L. Toe"
    > ... > ... <[email protected]> wrote:
    > ... > ...
    > ... > ... >
    > ... > ... >"Jim Pflaum" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > ... > ... >news:[email protected] oups.com...
    > ... > ... >> Does France, like many other countries, have a common
nickname?
    > ... > ... >> Americans often call the U.S. "The land of the free." Some
Britts call
    > ... > ... >> England "the land of hope and glory."
    > ... > ... >>
    > ... > ... >> I searched the Net's travel sites but didn't see any
nickname for
    > ... > ... >> France. I know that Paris is called "The city of lights,"
but does
    > ... > ... >> France have a nickname or slogan? Thanks!
    > ... > ... >>
    > ... > ... >
    > ... > ... >Frogland ?
    > ... > ...
    > ... > ... Naughty, Ms Rosbief!
    > ... >
    > ... >Shopkeeper, Martin !
    > ...
    > ... Fishwife, Magda :-)
    > Oh quite, Missy is not English...

Very true...

Carlus

"Tim Challenger" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de news:
1107331479.8c6b35a4672b1fb644bcaae162f8fd5a@terane ws...
    > On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 18:45:11 +0100, Carlus wrote:
    >> you are wrong, we don't call our country "Frogland"
    > no, but others do. The question was about *any* nicknames, not just those
    > given by the French.

read closely the question which contains : "Americans often call the U.S.
"The land of the free." Some Britts call England "the land of hope and
glory." so I can easily extrapolate that Jim's question is about nicknames
given by French themselves, not by ignorant sarcastic foreign posters which
can only be useless when visiting the country (which is the subject of this
newsgroup indeed...)

--
Carlus

Nitram

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 08:49:49 +0000, The Reids
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >Following up to Carlus
    >>you are wrong, we don't call our country "Frogland"
    >neither does anybody else.

You are wrong.

    >Nicknames are reserved for people of a
    >country "frogs", "roast beefs", "yanks" etc.



My kids used to go to school on a school bus shared with kids from the
German & French schools. Years were spent shouting frogs and roast
beefs at each other. Dunno, if any of them shouted krauts. The German
kids were held up as an example of how kids should behave, until four
of them opened the sun roof of the bus and climbed out whilst the bus
was caught in a traffic jam.
--
Martin

Earl Evleth

On 1/02/05 16:17, in article
[email protected]. com, "Jim Pflaum"
<[email protected]> wrote:

    > Surely there's got to be another nickname for France besides "The
    > Hexagone." If you ask me, that's a pretty terrible nickname.

It only means continental France. I assume it is from the very
approximate shape. You can approximately draw a straight line
from the Belgium border to the Bretagne (1), another from Bretagne
to the Spanish border(2), another over across the border to Spain
(3), another over to the italian border (4), another upt to Northern
France (5) and the last along the Luxembourg-Belgium border (6).

Earl

Earl Evleth

On 1/02/05 22:00, in article 56SLd.49$uc.45@trnddc08, "Robert J Carpenter"
<[email protected]> wrote:

    > La Metropole, for the part of France which is in Europe.
    > "Metropolitan" France. Does not include the DOM / TOM. AFAIK does
    > include Corsica, north & south, departments 2A and 2B.
    >
    >

I like "La belle France"

Earl

Tim Challenger

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 10:30:50 +0100, nitram wrote:

    > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 09:07:33 +0100, Tim Challenger
    > <[email protected]> wrote:
    >
    >>On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 14:53:25 -0800, poldy wrote:
    >>> In article <[email protected]>,
    >>> Mxsmanic <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>>
    >>>> Jim Pflaum writes:
    >>>>
    >>>>> Does France, like many other countries, have a common nickname?
    >>>>> Americans often call the U.S. "The land of the free." Some Britts call
    >>>>> England "the land of hope and glory."
    >>>>>
    >>>>> I searched the Net's travel sites but didn't see any nickname for
    >>>>> France. I know that Paris is called "The city of lights," but does
    >>>>> France have a nickname or slogan? Thanks!
    >>>>
    >>>> L'Hexagone is often used in France (because of the way the country is
    >>>> shaped). The anthropomorphic metaphor for the country is Marianne, a
    >>>> woman wearing a Phrygian (or Liberty) cap. Sometimes the country is
    >>>> represented as a rooster (le coq gaulois).
    >>>
    >>> Land of the cheese-eating surrender monkeys!
    >>ho ho ho. I haven't heard that one before.
    >
    > You haven't being paying attention, it appears in this group
    > regularly.

I was being sarcastic.;-)

--
Tim C.

Tim Challenger

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:59:59 +0100, Carlus wrote:

    > "Tim Challenger" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de news:
    > 1107331479.8c6b35a4672b1fb644bcaae162f8fd5a@terane ws...
    >> On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 18:45:11 +0100, Carlus wrote:
    >>> you are wrong, we don't call our country "Frogland"
    >> no, but others do. The question was about *any* nicknames, not just those
    >> given by the French.
    >
    > read closely the question which contains : "Americans often call the U.S.
    > "The land of the free." Some Britts call England "the land of hope and
    > glory." so I can easily extrapolate that Jim's question is about nicknames
    > given by French themselves, not by ignorant sarcastic foreign posters which
    > can only be useless when visiting the country (which is the subject of this
    > newsgroup indeed...)

Yes, inclusve of French nicknames for France or themselves, but not
exclusively.
--
Tim C.

Nitram

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 09:36:40 +0000, The Reids
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >Following up to nitram
    >>>> Land of the cheese-eating surrender monkeys!
    >>>ho ho ho. I haven't heard that one before.
    >>You haven't being paying attention, it appears in this group
    >>regularly.
    >You can judge how Iraq is going by it. Inverse proportion to good
    >prospects in Middle East.

Meanwhile the cheese-eating surrender monkeys are laughing their socks
off and saying things like we told you so. Bastards! :-)
--
Martin