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It's easier to surrender if you're unarmed.
Posted by: Ms. Flukey | June 27, 2012 at 04:10 PM
Clouseau doesn't need a gun.
Posted by: Clankie | June 27, 2012 at 04:32 PM
Stay away from the prostitutes officers.
Posted by: Cheesewiz | June 27, 2012 at 04:47 PM
But France has never had to rely on being unarmed. They were plenty armed in 1815, 1870, 1914, 1940, 1954 ... but they still managed it. I admit there were a few little tactical and technical advantages -- tanks without radios; vast, static, unidirectional defensive positions; uniforms with red pants; Henri Bergson -- but even so, it's an impressive record.
Posted by: Omniskeptic | June 27, 2012 at 05:53 PM
Read "The Day of the Jackal" and put down the French.
Anyone can mess up, but there's still a France.
Posted by: Steve | June 27, 2012 at 07:48 PM
"The President of France is widely considered to be the second most powerful executive position in the world after the American President."
Wait.... what?
Posted by: Joe Dwarf | June 27, 2012 at 08:30 PM
I bet their secret service agents are better at picking up girls than ours. Hell, ours don't even pay up.
Posted by: LeDud | June 27, 2012 at 10:39 PM
Y'know, if it wasn't for Frenchmen like Lafayette and Rochambeau we'd be English.
Posted by: wiredog | June 28, 2012 at 08:34 AM
Wait! We aren't English?!?
I mean, I know I'm not, but ...
Posted by: Omniskeptic | June 28, 2012 at 10:28 AM
sacre bleuuuuu!
Posted by: queensbee | June 28, 2012 at 10:34 AM
They did, however, pack the dressing ("Hollande's sauce").
Posted by: funny man | June 28, 2012 at 05:56 PM
Back in the 70's the Central African Republic was run by a nutjob named Jean-Bedel Bokassa. Murder, torture, the usual. Finally declared himself emperor. The French took him down in a very slick operation called Operation Barracuda. Napoleon, wherever you are, you should be proud.
Don't diss the French. They're not into suicide campaigns and our fight isn't always their fight, but when you need someone who can fight dirty, they can do it. Vive la France.
Posted by: There are Too Darn Many of us Steves Lately | June 28, 2012 at 09:53 PM
"Ah hav eh boom. Jes no gon. Le Poo."
Posted by: HogsAteMySister | June 29, 2012 at 04:42 AM