You know. ....That book where he is most mean-spirited

Paul Mackin mackin.paul at gmail.com
Fri Nov 20 09:40:36 CST 2015


Trying to think back, what was US's reaction when deGaulle pulled out of NATO?

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 9:42 PM, David Kilroy <thesaintgodard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Facepalming over here. In Richmond in 2001, in the leadup to war, the
> restaurant employing me rewrote its menu and kitchen protocol. We were
> Forbidden from saying french fries. They were frittes. On the ticket
> printouts, whenever orders were called, frittes. Always frittes. Of
> course all I heard was Fritz. It so flummoxed me... People kvetch
> about P.C. but political correctness has nothing on that kind of
> contrarian weirdness.
>
> On 11/19/15, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>> Great book!
>>
>> With all this Paris-love going on, I'm wondering if there'll be some
>> Congressional bill to officially change "freedom fries" back to "french
>> fries."
>>
>> Laura
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>> From: David Kilroy
>>
>> Apropos of eff all, I finished rereading Down & Out In Paris & London the
>> day before.  Plongeurs unite!
>>
>>
>>
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