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Old 12-05-2003, 12:33 PM
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Default Apologies to the French

Had to share this one.

Go on to Google www.google.com (remember them)

type in "french military victories" as the search term.

Click the 'I'm feeling lucky' button
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Old 12-05-2003, 10:33 PM
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France accepts your apology (but doesn't understand the joke)...
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Old 12-06-2003, 01:52 AM
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'FAKE'GOOGLE SAID:
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Did you mean: french military defeats ?

No standard web pages containing all your search terms were found.

Your search - french military victories - did not match any documents.
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Old 12-06-2003, 02:35 AM
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I understand the joke - I was suggesting that France didn't...

It's obscure, I agree...
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Old 12-07-2003, 12:23 AM
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I forwarded simonm's Google gag to a (like me, Canadian) friend, who replied with:
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You may not know this but the French "did need us", at least to some degree, during the first Iraq war. They agreed to send French aircraft carriers. However, they neglected to put any airplanes on them. It's the thought that counts.
My initial reaction was, "And they were relying on Canada to supply aircraft? Heaven help us all..."
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Old 12-07-2003, 12:53 AM
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I'm sure I remember a couple of french victories, but I guess that the Eurovision song contest won't count...

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Old 12-07-2003, 03:10 AM
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1998 World cup. And they didn't even have to rely on the French judges. (think figure skating)
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My initial reaction was, "And they were relying on Canada to supply aircraft? Heaven help us all..."
Too (too) funny ;-)
Do the aircraft have leaks too? ;-)

I dont think paper aeroplanes count somehow! But I'm sure Cretien can come up with some excuse the gullible will swallow to make them sound hitech ;-)

Tho I had heard that Alex Munter got his pilots licence in a paper aeroplane. He used to fly it around on the prowl for people hanging their clothes on washing lines ;-)



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Old 12-07-2003, 04:15 AM
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Default Are you feeling lucky, punk?

I only know of two "I'm Feeling Lucky" searches on Google that are so humorous: french military victories and of course weapons of mass destruction. Both are an amazing example of pushing up the page rank in Google. Without the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button to take you immediately to the top search result, neither would be nearly as comical. (No offense intended to the people of France.)

I wonder what other possibilities might be lurking out there. Perhaps there will be comical results one day for searches like Jimmy Hoffa or bigfoot.
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Old 12-07-2003, 05:36 AM
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The Tragedy

Prime Minister Jean Cretien is visiting an elementary
school and he drops in on one of the classes. They are
in the middle of a discussion related to words and
their meanings. The teacher asks the Prime Minister if
he would like to lead the discussion on the word
"tragedy".
So the illustrious leader asks the class for an
example of a "tragedy". One little boy stands up and
offers: "If my best friend,who lives on a farm, is
playing in the field and a runaway tractor comes
along and knocks him dead, that would be a tragedy.
"No," says the Prime Minister," dhat would be a
accident." A little girl raises her hand: "If a
school bus carrying 50 children drove over a cliff,
killing everyone inside, that would be a tragedy."
"I'm afraid not," explains the exalted leader.
"Dhat's what we would call a great loss."
The room goes silent. No other children volunteer.
Prime Minister Jean Chretien searches the room.
"Isn't there someone here who can give me a example of
a tragedy?"
Finally at the back of the room a small boy raises
his hand. In a quiet voice he says: "If a jet carrying
the Prime Minister of Canada across Western Canada
were struck by a missile and blown to smithereens,
that would be a tragedy."
"Fantastic!" exclaims Chretien, "Dhat's right. And
can you tell me why that would be tragedy?"
"Well," says the boy, "because it sure wouldn't be a
great loss and it probably wouldn't be an accident
either."


Narasinha, everbody, I just found the '(put your favourite "highest praise possible" word in here)' compression utility on 'webattack' -http://www.zipgenius.it/intweb/index.asp


"ZipGenius is a powerful zip tool suite that offers a variety of features. It offers support for more than 20 different compression formats, including 7zip, ZIP64 and many others. It supports drag and drop, 5 compression levels, full customization and integration in Windows Explorer. The program also comes with a built in FTP client that allows to download and upload files from within the software. The signature features allows you to add your signature and contact information to any zip file you create. ZipGenius also supports the creation of self-extracting exe files, complete with custom setup launch and icon. This very complete and unique tool package also comes with additional features like encryption, scanner support (acquire pictures and zip them into files), backup, statistics, download time calculator, disk spanning, file export, support for OpenOffice and more. ZipGenius can also interact with your Pocket PC device. Very nice!"

I'm not kidding, I test a lot of good software, but this is good. It 'reads' every file type I've ever seen except 'Iso', you can make it auto start HTML presentations, it integrates with your anti-virus and scans both in and out, ...way more way more stuff. It is freeware, completely 'clean' of any malware, blah blah..

It is about 9 Mb, and the connection I had was maxing at 25kb per/sec. The support looks phenomenal.
It is 'beta', and I've only done a couple so far, jv16 + aida32 + WinRAR + autostart multimedia presentation builder would be an equivelant type of value - maybe.
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Old 12-07-2003, 05:49 AM
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If there were ever a listing of 'runners-up', France would be on top of it!
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Old 12-07-2003, 01:48 PM
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The Tragedy
ROFLMAO! I could insert George W. Bush's name in there and it'd be great too! (He needs to get out of Al Gore's house!)
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Narasinha, everbody, I just found the '(put your favourite "highest praise possible" word in here)' compression utility on 'webattack' -http://www.zipgenius.it/intweb/index.asp
Hey, I like that! That's going to an archive disk for later installations too.
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