who said, "50 million frenchmen can't be wrong.'?

rae121452

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because they CAN be dumber than dogshit. think the virus cases will be rising over the next few weeks in paris?


Thousands of protesters pack Paris streets in defiance of COVID-19 vaccine passport: 'Our freedoms are dying'
Sun, 08 Aug 2021 00:18:18 GMT
The demonstrations came two days after France’s Constitutional Council upheld most provisions of a new law that expands the locations where health passes...
 
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Something tells me there are a bunch of ne'er do wells who don't want to be forced to identify themselves, and who have dubious reasons for their travels in and around France and the EU.

Drug / Human traffickers for example.
 
I think "50 million Frenchmen can't be wrong" was a publicity slogan for Charles Boyer, or maybe it was Maurice Chevalier.
 
i've decided that i'm going to stop wishing that the anti-vaxxers would get covid and die. now, i'm wishing that they get a mild case which they pass on to their children and relatives who die. let them live with the knowledge.
 
i googled it:

This is a reference to the discontent caused by the prohibition on alcohol in the USA in the 1920s. The 1927 song 'Fifty-million Frenchmen can't be wrong' alluded to the comparatively free and easy attitude to drinking in France. The number of Frenchmen seems to vary whenever the phrase reappears.
1,000 Frenchmen can't be wrong - phrase meaning and origin
www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/57/messages/745.html
www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/57/messages/745.html

and apparently it was a sophie tucker song, the old slag.
 
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