3 responses to “Quote of the Day”

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   Derp

   22 July 2010

   I don’t really get this joke. Anyone mind explaining?

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   Charlie Sweatpants

   22 July 2010

   Since at least World War II, and probably World War I or even earlier, a lot of Americans have had a sort of knee-jerk dislike/disdain of France. This is usually based on the oversimple idea that French people look down on us as uncultured hicks even though we saved their ass twice.

   Ha! I was going to cite “Freedom Fries” as the most prominent recent example and, sure enough, there’s a Wikipedia article about them:

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries

   But in that article there’s a link to:

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-French_sentiment_in_the_United_States

   Just skimming it, it’s not the world’s most scholarly piece, but it’ll give you the idea. By way of comparison, a quick search does not turn up a similar article about Anti-Italian sentiment.

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      Derp

      23 July 2010

      Ah, of course. I should have guessed that.
      Thanks.