Help wanted WW2!
Sep 18th 2007, 5:05 am
#257
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Sep 18th 2007, 11:39 am
#262
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Sep 18th 2007, 2:45 pm
#263
I approved this message
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Re: Help wanted WW2!
In all seriousness this thread has surprised me. The OP said he got these comments at work. If they were said in a nasty and vindictive way, he would probably have grounds for some kind of action. I'm presuming it's a gentle ribbing which is nonetheless tiresome. Kids at school kept calling my son "Joe English", it wasn't meant unkindly but it really annoyed him. So I took it that OP just wanted a couple of good ripostes. As manc said, AJP Taylor-style analysis was not required.
Sep 18th 2007, 2:54 pm
#264
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Sep 18th 2007, 3:02 pm
#265
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Re: Help wanted WW2!
Sadly no. I wish I did. We do have family friends in Provence, but I made my French friends as a teenager and unfortunately I don't know where they are today. Your comments about the French reminded me of something someone in France told me about the British years ago ... "they think they are better than we are because they have a Queen". I still think that's funny. 
Believe it or not, but there aren't many French people in Cincinnati.
The only time I get to use my French now is when someone wants me to proof something at work that will be used in Quebec, and Canadian French is NOT the same as Parisian French. Probably like British vs. American English.
Believe it or not, but there aren't many French people in Cincinnati.
The only time I get to use my French now is when someone wants me to proof something at work that will be used in Quebec, and Canadian French is NOT the same as Parisian French. Probably like British vs. American English.
Sep 18th 2007, 3:46 pm
#266
Bloody Yank
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Re: Help wanted WW2!
I think that your average Francophone Quebecois would take offense to it being referred to as "joual" (which I believe is a derivation of "cheval," meaning horse.) But yes, it is certainly different from Parisian French, and I personally can't get past the accent. Tabernac.
Sep 18th 2007, 6:17 pm
#267
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Re: Help wanted WW2!
"The Republicans threatened FDR with impeachment if he brought the US into 'Europe's War' and they only went in by one vote in Congress."
Where are you getting your facts from? The only member of Congress to vote against the U. S.' entry into WWII against Japan (after Pearl Harbor, of course) was Sen. Jeanette Rankin of Montana, and after Germany declared war on the U. S. she merely abstained from voting on the declaration against them.
Where are you getting your facts from? The only member of Congress to vote against the U. S.' entry into WWII against Japan (after Pearl Harbor, of course) was Sen. Jeanette Rankin of Montana, and after Germany declared war on the U. S. she merely abstained from voting on the declaration against them.
Sep 18th 2007, 7:40 pm
#268
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Re: Help wanted WW2!
Do a google search - FDR/threat of impeachment - and you'll discover the GOP openly discussed it to punish FDR for talking with Winston Churchill pre-war about Hitler and the setting up of an intelligence network (OSS - Bill Donovan?).
I did, in fact, and turned up nothing of any significance, but I was referring to your statement about the U. S. barely entering the war.
I did, in fact, and turned up nothing of any significance, but I was referring to your statement about the U. S. barely entering the war.
Sep 18th 2007, 7:47 pm
#269
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Re: Help wanted WW2!
Or Native American of which their are many different tribes
Sep 18th 2007, 8:20 pm
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Re: Help wanted WW2!
I grew up with alot of Native American place names and words which is nice they kept them.
Siwooganock
Passumpsic
Mooselookmeguntic
Coaticook
Memphremagog
and Ticklenaked Pond ( I know it's not Native American, I just like the name,
)
Siwooganock
Passumpsic
Mooselookmeguntic
Coaticook
Memphremagog
and Ticklenaked Pond ( I know it's not Native American, I just like the name,
)