[Culturechat] This is a joke-don't hassle me about it, just laugh a bit

[Vance Roy]

Humor is culture. This makes fun of no one except those who deserve 
ridicule. If it isn't politically correct for you, it is for others. I 
am a seventh generation French man (out of the "French" closet at last).

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A Marine's letter home.....
Dear Dad: A funny thing happened to me yesterday at Camp Bondsteel 
(Bosnia): A French army officer walked up to me in the PX, and told me 
he thought we (Americans) were a bunch of cowboys and were going to 
provoke a war in Iraq. He said if such a thing happens, we wouldn't be 
able to count on the support of France.
I told him that it didn't surprise me. Since we had come to France's 
rescue in World War I, World War II, Vietnam, and the Cold War, their 
ingratitude and jealousy was due to surface [again] at some point in 
the near future anyway. I also told him that is why France is a 
third-rate military power with a socialist economy and a bunch of 
sissies for soldiers. I additionally told him that America, being a 
nation of deeds and action, not only words, would do whatever it had to 
do, and France's support, if it ever came, was only for show anyway.

Just like in ALL NATO exercises, the US would shoulder 85% of the 
burden, and provide 85% of the support, as evidenced by the fact that 
this French officer was shopping in the American PX, and not the other 
way around.
He began to get belligerent at that point, and I told him if he would 
like to, I would meet him outside in front of the Burger King and whip 
his butt in front of the entire Multinational Brigade East, thus 
demonstrating that even the smallest American had more fight in him 
than the average Frenchman. He called me a barbarian cowboy and walked 
away in a huff.
With friends like these, who needs enemies?
Dad, tell Mom I love her,
Your loving daughter,
Mary Beth Johnson Lt Col., USMC
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Vance Roy
gigli.saw@dplanet.ch
http://homepage.mac.com/fredch