Looks like Colonel Dumkopf is pulling away and staging for the yellow jersey

How do you know we are in a world war?














France surrenders

That was the joke a while back, in the next world war, the looser gets France.

SPEAKING OF THE FRENCH HEARS SOMETHING I POACHED FROM ANOTHER FORUM

The History of the Middle Finger:

Well, now...here's something I never knew before, and now that I know it, I feel compelled to send it on to my more intelligent friends in the hope that they, too, will feel edified.  Isn't history more fun when you know something about it?

Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, anticipating victory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured English soldiers. Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw the renowned English longbow and therefore they would be incapable of fighting in the future. This famous English longbow was made of the native English Yew tree, and the act of drawing the longbow was known as 'plucking the yew' (or 'pluck yew').

Much to the bewilderment of the French, the English won a major upset and began mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at the defeated French, saying, 'See, we can still pluck yew'!  Since 'pluck yew' is rather difficult to say, the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodentals fricative F', and thus the words often used in conjunction with the one-finger-salute!  It's also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows used with the longbow that the symbolic gesture is known as 'giving the bird.'

IT'S STILL AN APPROPRIATE SALUTE TO THE FRENCH TODAY!

And yew thought yew knew every plucking thing.
 

Pretty cool info Len.  I always love learning new trivia !  History question:  Why did we help the French in WW2 ?  Was it to defeat the Germans and keep them from taking over all of Europe and the world, or did we just feel bad for France ? Its been along time since I "gradutated".

The troops were horny so they stopped over on their way to Germany?

Ah slamin the French,,,I got this from another also,,,,
Robert Whiting an elderly gentleman of 83 arrived in Paris by plane at the customs counter he took a few minutes to locate his passport from his
 carry on,
"Have you been to France before Monsieur?" the customs officer asks sarcastically.
MR Whiting admitted he had been to France previously,
"Then you should know to have your passport ready"
The American said "the last time I was here I didn`t have to show it"
" Impossible all Americans have to show passports on arrival in France"
The American senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look.Then he quietly explained,"Well, when I came ashore on Omaha Beach D-Day 1944 to help liberate this country,I couldn't`t find a single Frenchman to show a passport to".
I think Elmer would have liked that man.