brenda m "Natter .44 Magnum: Do You Feel Chatty, Punk?" May 25, 2006 5:25:00 pm PDT
Me too (or nineteen). I have cleverly hidden my LJ under the dashedly clever nom de plume "spidra".
Harrow: You didn't have to wound that man. Mal: Yeah, I know, it was just funny.
'Shindig'
Natter .44 Magnum: Do You Feel Chatty, Punk?
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Spidra Webster - May 26, 2006 3:16:38 pm PDT #9187 of 10002
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Strega - May 26, 2006 3:59:55 pm PDT #9188 of 10002
I think hating the French is part of our (the nation's, I mean) British heritage. They make it seem like so much fun!
And there's the Jerry Lewis thing, too. Oo, and mimes.
Yay on bonuses & raises and suchlike.
I'm so tired I want to die. We had a meeting at 3:30 this afternoon. Bastards. And then I had to bring work home for the weekend, although that's really my own fault for being such an incredible slacker. I would have gone to bed when I got home, except then I'd have woken up at 4 AM.
brenda m - May 26, 2006 4:07:34 pm PDT #9189 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Yay Allyson!
Isn't it a WW surrender thingy.
Y' cheese-eatin' surrender monkeys
t /Groundskeeper Willie
Sorry, can't ever resist that one. But I'm pretty sure there's more to it than that.
megan walker - May 26, 2006 4:32:15 pm PDT #9190 of 10002
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Isn't it a WW surrender thingy.
Well, the short historian's answer would be that both countries have universalist aspirations (spreading Enlightment, Rights of Man, Freedom's on the March, blah blah blah) and thus are natural rivals. Plus, France makes a great "other" for US politicians because they have no real immigrant base here to protest that use.
But anti-Americanism or anti-French sentiments never really degenerate that much because, when it comes right down to it, the countries have been allies since the Revolution. I mean, the French were the first to send troups into Afghanistan, even if they disagreed about Iraq. And people, even if they hate the French, love France and go there in droves.
Sue - May 26, 2006 4:33:58 pm PDT #9191 of 10002
hip deep in pie
Gay Mounties!
I seem to have broken some blood vessels from lifting up my TV stand. I didn't used to be so delicate.
brenda m - May 26, 2006 4:35:32 pm PDT #9192 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Aw, cutieheads.
Sue - May 26, 2006 4:54:52 pm PDT #9193 of 10002
hip deep in pie
My cats have to learn that when I am moving furniture, it doesn't help me when they get on it for the ride.
Trudy Booth - May 26, 2006 5:36:06 pm PDT #9194 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Megan finally starts posting and gets me all hawt with the brainyness.
Consuela - May 26, 2006 6:11:08 pm PDT #9195 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
To complicate the issue relating to what-to-call people descended from the folks who were in Northa America before the Europeans arrived, legal issues also get involved. In American (federal) law, "Native American", "Native Alaskan", and "Native Hawaiian" all have specific legal meanings, which may or may not have anything to do with their tribal membership, or political or ethnic status.
And Gar is right in that plenty of folks prefer to be called "Indians" still; they find "Native American" pretentious and/or PC. But not everyone. Case in point: the Native American Rights Fund versus the Congress of American Indians.
Typo Boy - May 26, 2006 6:31:53 pm PDT #9196 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
No? There was no concept of "those of us on this land"?
About as much as Rome and Gaul had that concept. They were different nations, different languages, different religions, different cultures , different languages - different marriage customs, different attitudes towards slavery, different attitudes towards war. I'm pretty sure the only "us" was us people - the same us the U.S. and China have today.