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oggbashan

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This is an extract from one of my collection of old French newspapers. It is in French. Quelle surprise!

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GAZETTE NATIONALE, ou LE MONITEUR UNIVERSEL
No358 Octidi, 28 Fructidor, l’an 2 de la Republique Française, une et indivisible. (d. 14 7bre 1794, v. st.)

CONVENTION NATIONALE
Présidence de Bernard de Saintes

SUITE A LA SÉANCE DU 25 FRUCTIDOR



Le Président. On vient de me remettre une lettre en anglais, dont la traduction, qui y est jointe, annonce que le ministre plénipotentiare des Etats-Unis d’Amerique envoie un drapeau pour être mis dans la salle de la Convention, à côté du drapeau français. Il est apporté par un officier des Etats-Unis.

La Convention ordonne son admission.

L’officer Américain entre à la barre, au milieu des plus vifs applaudissemens. Il porte un drapeau dont les coleurs sont les mêmes que celles de l’étandard de notre liberté, excepté qu’il y a de plus des étoiles sur le bleu.

Il presente les deux pieces suivantes dont un secrétaire donne lecture ;

Le ministre des Etats-Unis de l’Amerique, au président de la Convention nationale. – Paris, le 23 fructidor, l’an 2 de la République une et indivisible.

Citoyen président, la Convention ayant décrété que les pavillons des Républiques Américaine et Française seraient unis et flotteraient ensemble dans le lieu de ses séances, en témoignage de l’union et de l’amitié qui doivent subsister éternellement entre les deux Peuples, j’ai pensé ne pouvoir mieux manifester la profonde impression que m’a fait ce décret, et le sentiment de reconnaissance de mes constituans, qu’en faisant exécuter avec soin leur drapeau pour l’offrir, en leur nom, aux représentans du Peuple Français.
Je l’ai fait faire d’après la forme derniérement décrétée par le Congrès, et l’ai confié au capitaine Barnery, officier d’un mérite distingué, qui nous a rendu de grandes services sur mer pendant le cours de notre revolution ; il est chargé de vous le présenter et de le déposer dans le lieu que vous jugerez à propos de lui désigner. Acceptez donc ce pavillon, Citoyen président, comme un nouveau gage de la sensibilité avec laquelle le Peuple Américain reçoit toujours les preuves d’intérêt et d’amitié que lui donne ses bonnes et braves alliés, ainsi que du plaisir et de l’empressement avec lequel il accueille consolider l’union et la concorde entre les deux Nations (On applaudit.)

Signé, JAMES MOUROE.

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For those of you unfamiliar with French it says that James Monroe, US ambassador to France has sent a naval Captain with a US flag to the French parliament because the French decided that the US flag should be displayed alongside the US one whenever the parliament was in session.

The flag is presented in witness of the union and friendship that should exist eternally between the peoples of France and the US.

Freedom Fries anyone?

Og
 
James Ellroy

Pete got pissed. Pete got a headache. The head geek paced the line behind him.

An Army stupe - Fort Polk trash - some kiddie kommando. He ran a Klan Klique. He ran a still. He sold oat mash. He supplied alcoholoc Choctows.

The troops sucked poodle dick. The camp ditto.

Quonset huts and pup tents - fucking Boy Scout stock. A "Target Range" - scarecrows and tree stumps. An "Ammo Dump" - made from lego logs.

The troops snapped to. The troops shot a salute. They fumbled their rifles. They fired off-sync. Eight bolts jammed up.

They made some noise. They roused some birds. Birdshit disinterred and fell.

Carlos bowed. Carlos tossed the donation bag. The head geek caught it and bowed.


from The Cold Six Thousand






Is he fucking lazy or what?






























Just kidding, Mr Ellroy. How stylish you are!
 
If I like a man as if he were a brother, or, can that, let's talk about my brother. He's bound to me and I to him in tight ways not accessible to others.

I travel to Grand Rapids for his wedding. I send him money in jail. I chase him when he's got dementia and goes running off, psychotic from the meds-- to be able to be there before the police find him, since they aren't his brother.

But if he wants someone to hold the rifle so he can commit suicide with it, I am not going to help him. There's things you help with and things you don't, even with a brother.

He might burn the photos of me in his possession, and dump the gifts I once gave him. He might revile me in public in shameful ways, and he knows me pretty well, he can find some things to say which will hurt. But I still won't hold the rifle for him.

That's all I have to say about France.
 
ChilledVodka said:
Thank you. Spot on.

I won't sell my brother to the cops.

You don't have a brother. Not since the sex-change operation, anyway.
 
I have a spare brother I am more than willing to offer to a good home. Or preferrably a bad one.

Shanglan
 
cantdog said:
But I still won't hold the rifle for him.

That's all I have to say about France.

But I won't stop him from doing it himself.
 
Lauren Hynde said:
Ultraviolet. It's the world around us that is bwack and gwim. Woe is me!

I always remember an important formula to do with that: black jacket + UV lamp + dandruff = no BJ for SJ
 
Sub Joe said:
I always remember an important formula to do with that: black jacket + UV lamp + dandruff = no BJ for SJ

That would be a terrific marketing ploy for Head & Shoulders dandruff shampoo.
 
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