Zidane apparently called "Dirty Terrorist"

[VivaMexico 0]

Jay Leno just talked about Zidane's head butt & said that's the closest the French have come to combat in 50 years...

another xenophobic joke from Leno

I was going to note how surprised I was that Zidane didn't pull out a white flag and surrender, then sit down and eat a crepe while wearing a beret.

[yabasta 0]

i smell someone trying to make a mountain out of a molehill about a joke

a xenophobic joke.

Get over it.

Jay Leno just talked about Zidane's head butt & said that's the closest the French have come to combat in 50 years...

Nothing for me to "get over". You have the problem here.

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Some French jokes seem oddly appropriate right about now.

Funny Quotations About France

"France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. France has usually been governed by prostitutes."

—Mark Twain

"I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me."

—General George S. Patton

"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion."

—Norman Schwartzkopf

"We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about it."

—Marge Simpson

"As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure."

—Jacques Chirac, President of France

"As far as France is concerned, you're right."

—Rush Limbaugh

"The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee."

—Regis Philbin

"The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don't know."

—P.J O'Rourke (1989)

"You know, the French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the 1940s who was still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't have the face for it."

—John McCain, U.S. Senator from Arizona

"They've taken their own precautions against Al Qaeda. To prepare for an attack, each Frenchman is urged to keep duct tape, a white flag, and a three-day supply of mistresses in the house."

—Argus Hamilton

How many Frenchmen does it take to change a light bulb?

One. He holds the bulb and all of Europe revolves around him.

An old saying: Raise your right hand if you like the French.... Raise both hands if you are French.

Next time there's a war in Europe, the loser has to keep France.

"The only way the French are going in is if we tell them we found truffles in Iraq."

—Dennis Miller

"You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein? Because he hates America, he loves mistresses and wears a beret. He IS French, people."

—Conan O'Brien

"The last time the French asked for 'more proof,' it came marching into Paris under a German flag."

—David Letterman

"How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?"

- Charles de Gaulle

"A Frenchman both common and noble is quite self-assured because he regards himself personally both in mind and body as irresistibly attractive to both men and women. This is why the French are constantly attacked by the Prussians and the English."

- Leo Tolstoy

"In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal."

- Gertrude Stein

"The French wouldnt go into Iraq unless they discovered truffles out in the field."

- from 60 Minutes

"Basically, the French are all peasants."

- Pablo Picasso

"France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France."

- Mark Twain

"I just love the French. They taste like chicken!"

- Hannibal Lecter

[incanada1234 0]

Poor picked-on France. And the ONE good thing they DO have is American! (Johnny Depp)

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Xenophobic is the wrong word. Racist is more accurate (and rather less diplomatic).

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Poor picked-on France. And the ONE good thing they DO have is American! (Johnny Depp)

IMDB says he was born in Kentucky.

[Ban Hammer 13,275]

i'm certain that yabasta and fishdude, being from not so great britain, have never told a french joke in their entire life.

[incanada1234 0]

Poor picked-on France. And the ONE good thing they DO have is American! (Johnny Depp)

IMDB says he was born in Kentucky.

Well, last I checked Kentucky was in America.

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Poor picked-on France. And the ONE good thing they DO have is American! (Johnny Depp)

IMDB says he was born in Kentucky.

Well, last I checked Kentucky was in America.

I clearly need to work on my reading

[VivaMexico 0]

Gupt, I love it!

[incanada1234 0]

Gupt, I love it!

What, Kentucky?

[VivaMexico 0]

Gupt, I love it!

What, Kentucky?

No, the french jokes. I have no idea about the Kentucky thing!

[CarolineM 0]

oh yes, Johnny Depp....he has left America and complained about it...yet has no problem pocketing all the AMerican money while he makes commerical films for DISNEY!

[MHandMB 0]

Why is France so hated? When I moved to France, a lot of my American acquaintances asked me "why are you going there? THe French hate us." What's true is the opposite. I've met many more Americans who can't stand the French than I've met French who don't like Americans.

Some of the most gracious, kind, and interesting people I've ever met while travelling were French, and for the most part, people would flock to talk to American who spoke French. A LOT of the American tourists I met in France were some of the most obnoxious, rude, self-entitled people I've ever met. I KNOW that the majority of Americans aren't like that, but if I were French, and if that behaviour was the kind I was constantly exposed to, I would dislike Americans.

Then, when a French person comes to the U.S., they hear all of the jokes all around them about them being "Frogs" and about wine and cheese, and about World War II ( during which most of them weren't even alive- that's like joking about all white people being slave owners or all Germans as Nazis).

It's not exactly the way to warm up diplomatic relations. Just my opinion.

[CarolineM 0]

Why is France so hated? When I moved to France, a lot of my American acquaintances asked me "why are you going there? THe French hate us." What's true is the opposite. I've met many more Americans who can't stand the French than I've met French who don't like Americans.

Some of the most gracious, kind, and interesting people I've ever met while travelling were French, and for the most part, people would flock to talk to American who spoke French. A LOT of the American tourists I met in France were some of the most obnoxious, rude, self-entitled people I've ever met. I KNOW that the majority of Americans aren't like that, but if I were French, and if that behaviour was the kind I was constantly exposed to, I would dislike Americans.

Then, when a French person comes to the U.S., they hear all of the jokes all around them about them being "Frogs" and about wine and cheese, and about World War II ( during which most of them weren't even alive- that's like joking about all white people being slave owners or all Germans as Nazis).

It's not exactly the way to warm up diplomatic relations. Just my opinion.

Moi, J'adore les Francaises!1 (sp?? My french is more and more dodgy by the day!)