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  #41  
Old February 2nd, 2005, 10:56 AM
Miss L. Toe
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"Magda" wrote in message
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On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 22:26:31 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, nitram

arranged
some electrons, so they looked like this :

... On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 22:04:57 +0100, Magda
... wrote:
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... On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 21:18:01 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, nitram

arranged
... some electrons, so they looked like this :
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... ... On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 16:44:26 -0000, "Miss L. Toe"
... ... wrote:
... ...
... ...
... ... "Jim Pflaum" wrote in message
... ... oups.com...
... ... Does France, like many other countries, have a common

nickname?
... ... Americans often call the U.S. "The land of the free." Some

Britts call
... ... England "the land of hope and glory."
... ...
... ... I searched the Net's travel sites but didn't see any

nickname for
... ... France. I know that Paris is called "The city of lights,"

but does
... ... France have a nickname or slogan? Thanks!
... ...
... ...
... ... Frogland ?
... ...
... ... Naughty, Ms Rosbief!
...
... Shopkeeper, Martin !
...
... Fishwife, Magda :-)

Oh quite, Missy is not English...


Very true...


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Old February 2nd, 2005, 10:59 AM
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"Tim Challenger" a écrit dans le message de news:
1107331479.8c6b35a4672b1fb644bcaae162f8fd5a@terane ws...
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 18:45:11 +0100, Carlus wrote:

you are wrong, we don't call our country "Frogland"


no, but others do. The question was about *any* nicknames, not just those
given by the French.


read closely the question which contains : "Americans often call the U.S.
"The land of the free." Some Britts call England "the land of hope and
glory." so I can easily extrapolate that Jim's question is about nicknames
given by French themselves, not by ignorant sarcastic foreign posters which
can only be useless when visiting the country (which is the subject of this
newsgroup indeed...)

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Old February 2nd, 2005, 11:23 AM
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On 1/02/05 22:00, in article 56SLd.49$uc.45@trnddc08, "Robert J Carpenter"
wrote:

La Metropole, for the part of France which is in Europe.
"Metropolitan" France. Does not include the DOM / TOM. AFAIK does
include Corsica, north & south, departments 2A and 2B.



I like "La belle France"

Earl

  #45  
Old February 2nd, 2005, 11:43 AM
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On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 10:30:50 +0100, nitram wrote:

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 09:07:33 +0100, Tim Challenger
wrote:

On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 14:53:25 -0800, poldy wrote:

In article ,
Mxsmanic wrote:

Jim Pflaum writes:

Does France, like many other countries, have a common nickname?
Americans often call the U.S. "The land of the free." Some Britts call
England "the land of hope and glory."

I searched the Net's travel sites but didn't see any nickname for
France. I know that Paris is called "The city of lights," but does
France have a nickname or slogan? Thanks!

L'Hexagone is often used in France (because of the way the country is
shaped). The anthropomorphic metaphor for the country is Marianne, a
woman wearing a Phrygian (or Liberty) cap. Sometimes the country is
represented as a rooster (le coq gaulois).

Land of the cheese-eating surrender monkeys!


ho ho ho. I haven't heard that one before.


You haven't being paying attention, it appears in this group
regularly.


I was being sarcastic.;-)

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  #46  
Old February 2nd, 2005, 11:44 AM
Tim Challenger
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:59:59 +0100, Carlus wrote:

"Tim Challenger" a écrit dans le message de news:
1107331479.8c6b35a4672b1fb644bcaae162f8fd5a@terane ws...
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 18:45:11 +0100, Carlus wrote:

you are wrong, we don't call our country "Frogland"


no, but others do. The question was about *any* nicknames, not just those
given by the French.


read closely the question which contains : "Americans often call the U.S.
"The land of the free." Some Britts call England "the land of hope and
glory." so I can easily extrapolate that Jim's question is about nicknames
given by French themselves, not by ignorant sarcastic foreign posters which
can only be useless when visiting the country (which is the subject of this
newsgroup indeed...)


Yes, inclusve of French nicknames for France or themselves, but not
exclusively.
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Old February 2nd, 2005, 12:19 PM
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The Reids wrote:

Mainland Spain is "the peninsula" I think.


What do the Portuguese think of that?

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  #48  
Old February 2nd, 2005, 12:40 PM
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Following up to Padraig Breathnach

Mainland Spain is "the peninsula" I think.


What do the Portuguese think of that?


Dunno. I *think* its used in the Canaries mainly. Maybe they say
the same thing on Madiera?
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Old February 2nd, 2005, 02:15 PM
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:43:09 +0100, Tim Challenger
wrote:

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 10:30:50 +0100, nitram wrote:

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 09:07:33 +0100, Tim Challenger
wrote:

On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 14:53:25 -0800, poldy wrote:

In article ,
Mxsmanic wrote:

Jim Pflaum writes:

Does France, like many other countries, have a common nickname?
Americans often call the U.S. "The land of the free." Some Britts call
England "the land of hope and glory."

I searched the Net's travel sites but didn't see any nickname for
France. I know that Paris is called "The city of lights," but does
France have a nickname or slogan? Thanks!

L'Hexagone is often used in France (because of the way the country is
shaped). The anthropomorphic metaphor for the country is Marianne, a
woman wearing a Phrygian (or Liberty) cap. Sometimes the country is
represented as a rooster (le coq gaulois).

Land of the cheese-eating surrender monkeys!

ho ho ho. I haven't heard that one before.


You haven't being paying attention, it appears in this group
regularly.


I was being sarcastic.;-)


You need to make it far more obvious. "ho ho ho" just didn't do it.
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Old February 2nd, 2005, 02:30 PM
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On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:15:51 GMT, Deep Foiled Malls wrote:

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:43:09 +0100, Tim Challenger
wrote:

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 10:30:50 +0100, nitram wrote:

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 09:07:33 +0100, Tim Challenger
wrote:

On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 14:53:25 -0800, poldy wrote:

In article ,
Mxsmanic wrote:

Jim Pflaum writes:

Does France, like many other countries, have a common nickname?
Americans often call the U.S. "The land of the free." Some Britts call
England "the land of hope and glory."

I searched the Net's travel sites but didn't see any nickname for
France. I know that Paris is called "The city of lights," but does
France have a nickname or slogan? Thanks!

L'Hexagone is often used in France (because of the way the country is
shaped). The anthropomorphic metaphor for the country is Marianne, a
woman wearing a Phrygian (or Liberty) cap. Sometimes the country is
represented as a rooster (le coq gaulois).

Land of the cheese-eating surrender monkeys!

ho ho ho. I haven't heard that one before.

You haven't being paying attention, it appears in this group
regularly.


I was being sarcastic.;-)


You need to make it far more obvious. "ho ho ho" just didn't do it.


I thought (hoped) you chaps would know me better by now. Sigh! :-(
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