The Complete Military History of France

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  • Patron God of Pirates
    ~pgop1.0
    • Apr 2002
    • 1196

    #1

    The Complete Military History of France

    - Gallic Wars - Lost. In a war whose ending foreshadows the next 2000
    >years of French history, France is conquered by of all things, an Italian.

    - Hundred Years War - Mostly lost, saved at last by female schizophrenic who inadvertently creates The First Rule of French Warfare; "France's armies are victorious only when not led by a Frenchman."

    -Italian Wars - Lost. France becomes the first and only country to ever lose two wars when fighting Italians.

    - Wars of Religion - France goes 0-5-4 against the Huguenots

    - Thirty Years War - France is technically not a participant, but manages to get invaded anyway. Claims a tie on the basis that eventually the other participants started ignoring her.

    - War of Devolution - Tied. Frenchmen take to wearing red flowerpots as chapeaux.

    -The Dutch War - Tied

    -War of the Augsburg League/King William's War/French and Indian War. Lost, but claimed as a tie. Three ties in a row induces deluded Frogophiles the world over to label the period as the height of French military power.

    -War of the Spanish Succession - Lost. The War also gave the French their first taste of a Marlborough, which they have loved every since.

    - American Revolution - In a move that will become quite familiar to future Americans, France claims a win even though the English colonists saw far more action. This is later known as "de Gaulle Syndrome", and leads to the Second Rule of French Warfare; "France only wins when America does
    most of the fighting."

    - French Revolution - Won, primarily due the fact that the opponent was also French.

    - The Napoleonic Wars - Lost. Temporary victories (remember the First Rule!) due to leadership of a Corsican, who ended up being no match for a British footwear designer.

    - The Franco-Prussian War - Lost. Germany first plays the role of drunk Frat boy to France's ugly girl home alone on a Saturday night.

    - World War I - Tied and on the way to losing, France is saved by the United States. Thousands of French women find out what it's like to not only sleep with a winner, but one who doesn't call her "Fraulein." Sadly, widespread use of condoms by American forces forestalls any improvement in the French bloodline.

    -World War II - Lost. Conquered French liberated by the United States and Britain just as they finish learning the Horst Wessel Song.

    - War in Indochina - Lost. French forces plead sickness, take to bed with the Dien Bien Flu.

    - Algerian Rebellion - Lost. Loss marks the first defeat of a western army by a Non-Turkic Muslim force since the Crusades, and produces the First Rule of Muslim Warfare; "We can always beat the French." This rule is identical to the First Rules of the Italians, Russians, Germans, English, Dutch, Spanish, Vietnamese and Esquimaux.

    - War on Terrorism - France, keeping in mind its recent history, surrenders to Germans and Muslims just to be safe. Attempts to surrender to Vietnamese ambassador fail after he takes refuge in a McDonald's.


    The question for any country silly enough to count on the French should not be "Can we count on the French?", but rather "How long until France collapses?"
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    Credit: A friend of mine who is a food technologist for the military sent this to me. I had to share it.
  • oldsoldier
    just choke yourself out!!!
    • Feb 2002
    • 2459

    #2
    Hehehe...that was pretty good! I could send that in an email to a few (thousand) people I can think of...
    X-mag #10. Nuff said.

    my feedback

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    • HoppysMag
      Hoppy's en Fuego!!!
      • Oct 2001
      • 3494

      #3
      ya cphilip posted this in another thread but still good ...
      "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him." -John Morley

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      • breg
        mean & hateful, fat & ugly
        • Jan 2003
        • 1037

        #4
        You forgot the primary rule of French Fighting Vehicle design: the fighing vehicles will always have one foreward gear and five reverse gears.
        Giant flying dogs are gonna give you a flame-thrower enema!!!

        SUPPORT YOUR TROOPS!!!!!!!!

        Chuff!!! Chuff!!!

        ABQHC

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        • FactsOfLife
          Conservative Jihadi
          • May 2002
          • 2504

          #5
          Latest design in French Warships...

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          • slateman
            Registered User
            • Oct 2001
            • 1346

            #6
            Re: The Complete Military History of France

            Originally posted by Patron God of Pirates
            - Hundred Years War - Mostly lost, saved at last by female schizophrenic who inadvertently creates The First Rule of French Warfare; "France's armies are victorious only when not led by a Frenchman."
            Not that I disagree with you about the French, but does this line refer to Joan of Arc? Cause she was French or at least she was born in France. That would make her a Frenchmen...er... Frenchwoman.

            And just to prove to you that I don't like the French-
            BrockSampson "I see dead people..."



            and once I see them, I make sweet, sweet love...

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            • 1stdeadeye
              Still around????
              • Jun 2002
              • 8501

              #7
              Re: The Complete Military History of France

              Originally posted by Patron God of Pirates
              [B- Thousands of French women find out what it's like to not only sleep with a winner, but one who doesn't call her "Fraulein." Sadly, widespread use of condoms by American forces forestalls any improvement in the French bloodline.
              [/B]
              ROFL!

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              • edweird
                IP lawsuits > innovation
                • Dec 2001
                • 1859

                #8
                Well i think we are all familiar with the true strength of the French military...


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                • automagfreek
                  Captain of Crimson Men
                  • Dec 2002
                  • 1072

                  #9
                  He he he...


                  SMOKE...HE'S COMING FOR YOU....

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                  • Army
                    Moderator of DOOOOOOOOMMM!

                    • Oct 2000
                    • 5785

                    #10
                    Just so you know: that tank isn't white. It's in a particular desert color, invented by the Brits to better match the Saharan conditions.

                    That's the Aberdeen Proving Grounds museum. Behind it, you can see a Sherman in the same color.

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                    • automagfreek
                      Captain of Crimson Men
                      • Dec 2002
                      • 1072

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Army
                      Just so you know: that tank isn't white. It's in a particular desert color, invented by the Brits to better match the Saharan conditions.

                      That's the Aberdeen Proving Grounds museum. Behind it, you can see a Sherman in the same color.
                      Yeah, that was just a dumb pic that I found on some website. I noticed the Sherman too.

                      SMOKE...HE'S COMING FOR YOU....

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                      • HoppysMag
                        Hoppy's en Fuego!!!
                        • Oct 2001
                        • 3494

                        #12
                        know how at the end of the gulf war the iraqis were surrendering in the thousands to basicly anything that moved...

                        well there were some that surrendered to the french tv crew covering the war... im sure the french crew surrendered first and soon it was like a scene from M.A.S.H., the episode with "fred" where he surrenders to hawk eye, j, burns, radar, klinger and everyone he meets... " comon fred youv got a whole ward of people to surrender to"
                        "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him." -John Morley

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                        • Trench
                          Pie lovers go to Hell!
                          • Nov 2002
                          • 1099

                          #13
                          Lol... France will be put to the test soon... Who knows... maybe when we win they will claim victory...
                          Founder of the Pie Haters Revolution!

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                          • breg
                            mean & hateful, fat & ugly
                            • Jan 2003
                            • 1037

                            #14
                            hey, i got sent this today, I thought you might get a kick out of it:

                            "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

                            "You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein? Because he hates
                            America, he loves mistresses and wears a beret. He's French!"
                            ---Conan O'Brien

                            "I don't know why people are surprised that France won't help us get Saddam
                            out of Iraq. After all, France wouldn't help us get the Germans out of
                            France!"
                            ---Jay Leno

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

                            How many Frenchmen does it take to change a light bulb?
                            One. He holds the bulb and all of Europe revolves around him.

                            Next time there's a war in Europe, the loser has to keep France.
                            Giant flying dogs are gonna give you a flame-thrower enema!!!

                            SUPPORT YOUR TROOPS!!!!!!!!

                            Chuff!!! Chuff!!!

                            ABQHC

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                            • Load SM5
                              Scruffy Administrator

                              • Oct 2000
                              • 6772

                              #15
                              You forgot one....

                              "Bonjourrrrrrrrr ya chesse eating surrender monkeys!"
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