Re: Does France Have A Nickname?
 

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 00:18:58 +0000, Keith Anderson
<[email protected]> wrote:

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

That sort of thinking led to Linda Lovelace and Deep Throat.

    >Maybe going for my six-monthly scale and polish will never be the same
    >again. :-)

I go every three months :-)

    >Ah wel, open wide and all that.

<cough>

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Re: Does France Have A Nickname?
 

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 10:31:29 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, nitram <[email protected]> arranged
some electrons, so they looked like this :

... 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.

"Rosbif" in French.

Re: Does France Have A Nickname?
 

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 10:29:10 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, nitram <[email protected]> arranged
some electrons, so they looked like this :

... > ... >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?

You owe me a new keyboard.

Re: Does France Have A Nickname?
 

The Reids <[email protected]> wrote:

    >Mainland Spain is "the peninsula" I think.

What do the Portuguese think of that?

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Re: Does France Have A Nickname?
 

Following up to Padraig Breathnach

    >>Mainland Spain is "the peninsula" I think.
    >What do the Portuguese think of that?

Dunno. I *think* its used in the Canaries mainly. Maybe they say
the same thing on Madiera?
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Re: Does France Have A Nickname?
 

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:43:09 +0100, Tim Challenger
<[email protected]> wrote:


    >>>> 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.;-)

In that case I wasn't paying attention :-)
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Re: Does France Have A Nickname?
 

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 12:17:12 +0100, Magda <[email protected]>
wrote:


    > ... and we don't go about calling each other Rosbiefs.
    >"Rosbif" in French.

but I was right despite that :-)
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Re: Does France Have A Nickname?
 

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 12:19:16 +0100, Magda <[email protected]>
wrote:

    >On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 10:29:10 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, nitram <[email protected]> arranged
    >some electrons, so they looked like this :
    > ... > ... >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?
    >You owe me a new keyboard.

It's in the post.
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Re: Does France Have A Nickname?
 

"Tim Challenger" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:1107340834.850af387d747bd186cada723ba1397f3@t eranews...
    > 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.
    > --

Well, I could quote from another newsgroup, where one member is not too
happy with the French involvement with Iraq ::::::

To the self serving, nay saying, cowardly, corrupt, Loire, Rhone,
and Seine polluting, bottom feeding, frog eating, under-table oil and
armaments merchants, and suckers of the private parts of Ba'athist dictators
of this world who did everything to prevent this day,...... may your wine
turn to vinegar, your truffles into toadstools, your cheese into American
cheese product, may your snails escape to Italy and your daughters to Saudi
harems, and may you enjoy the companionship of your gold, ancestors,
friends, neighbors, and fellow travelers in the nether regions sooner rather
than later.

But I'd better not - not very PC is it! :-))

Surreyman

Re: Does France Have A Nickname?
 

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:43:09 +0100, Tim Challenger
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >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.;-)

You need to make it far more obvious. "ho ho ho" just didn't do it.
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Re: Does France Have A Nickname?
 

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:15:51 GMT, Deep Foiled Malls wrote:

    > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:43:09 +0100, Tim Challenger
    > <[email protected]> wrote:
    >
    >>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.;-)
    >
    > You need to make it far more obvious. "ho ho ho" just didn't do it.

I thought (hoped) you chaps would know me better by now. Sigh! :-(
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Re: Does France Have A Nickname?
 

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 12:52:21 GMT, a.spencer3 wrote:

    > "Tim Challenger" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > news:1107340834.850af387d747bd186cada723ba1397f3@t eranews...
    >> 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.
    >> --
    >
    > Well, I could quote from another newsgroup, where one member is not too
    > happy with the French involvement with Iraq ::::::
    >
    > To the self serving, nay saying, cowardly, corrupt, Loire, Rhone,
    > and Seine polluting, bottom feeding, frog eating, under-table oil and
    > armaments merchants, and suckers of the private parts of Ba'athist dictators
    > of this world who did everything to prevent this day,...... may your wine
    > turn to vinegar, your truffles into toadstools, your cheese into American
    > cheese product, may your snails escape to Italy and your daughters to Saudi
    > harems, and may you enjoy the companionship of your gold, ancestors,
    > friends, neighbors, and fellow travelers in the nether regions sooner rather
    > than later.
    >
    > But I'd better not - not very PC is it! :-))
    >
    > Surreyman

LOL! Glad you didn't post that.

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Re: Does France Have A Nickname?
 

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:15:51 GMT, Deep Foiled Malls
<deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote:

    >On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:43:09 +0100, Tim Challenger
    ><[email protected]> wrote:
    >>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.;-)
    >You need to make it far more obvious. "ho ho ho" just didn't do it.

He should have put the ho ho ho last instead of first. I thought Tim
was doing his Santa Claus impersonation and then again I could be just
taking the piss.
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Re: Does France Have A Nickname?
 

Following up to Deep Foiled Malls

    >>>>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.;-)
    >You need to make it far more obvious. "ho ho ho" just didn't do it.

(that's also sarcastic) I assume.
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Re: Does France Have A Nickname?
 

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:32:44 +0000, The Reids
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >Following up to Deep Foiled Malls
    >>>>>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.;-)
    >>You need to make it far more obvious. "ho ho ho" just didn't do it.
    >(that's also sarcastic) I assume.

No, I was being serious.
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