If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#81
|
|||
|
|||
Mika wrote:
Padraig Breathnach wrote: Jesper Lauridsen wrote: On 2005-02-01, Padraig Breathnach wrote: And l'hexagone is not all of France. Islands are irrelevant. Are you really posting from Denmark? Maybe he's from Jutland. Nicknamed "The Stump". -- PB The return address has been MUNGED |
#82
|
|||
|
|||
nitram wrote:
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:54:14 +0100, Magda wrote: On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:44:38 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, nitram arranged some electrons, so they looked like this : ... On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:32:54 +0100, Magda ... wrote: ... ... On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:28:57 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, nitram arranged ... some electrons, so they looked like this : ... ... ... ... Don't we all? ... ... ... ... I'm not sure what you would get out of it. ... ... I don't live in Germany. Problem solved. ... ... If you don't live in Germany how do you expect to get deported by the ... racist regime? I'm mistaken for a German from time to time - why would they deport me ? Una fatsa una razza, my dear !... Didn't I see you on Tutti Frutti once? As the 'Apricot'??? M |
#83
|
|||
|
|||
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 14:15:56 +0100, nitram wrote:
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 11:51:53 +0000, Padraig Breathnach wrote: Mika wrote: Padraig Breathnach wrote: Jesper Lauridsen wrote: On 2005-02-01, Padraig Breathnach wrote: And l'hexagone is not all of France. Islands are irrelevant. Are you really posting from Denmark? Maybe he's from Jutland. Nicknamed "The Stump". Boston? That's the Stomp. Dummy. ;-) -- Tim C. |
#84
|
|||
|
|||
The Reids wrote:
Following up to Padraig Breathnach Islands are irrelevant. Are you really posting from Denmark? Calm down P, he said "islands", not "Ireland's" :-) On the other hand, according to my atlas, a major part of Denmark is islands. Major ones are Fyn, Lolland, Falster and Sjælland. Copenhagen is on the last! An island does not stop being so if a bridge is built does it? -- James V. Silverton Potomac, Maryland, USA |
#85
|
|||
|
|||
nitram wrote:
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 14:04:44 +0100, Magda wrote: On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 13:52:26 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, nitram arranged some electrons, so they looked like this : ... ... Didn't I see you on Tutti Frutti once? ... ... ... ... As the 'Apricot'??? ... ... No, he didn't. ... ... Were you watching too? I was sleeping. who with? Whom! -- PB The return address has been MUNGED |
#86
|
|||
|
|||
Following up to Padraig Breathnach
Islands are irrelevant. Are you really posting from Denmark? Calm down P, he said "islands", not "Ireland's" :-) Okay, I've got my breath back. As a fellow islander I know how you felt (although on an island that thinks the continent is cut off if there is fog in the channel). -- Mike Reid Wasdale-Thames path-London-photos "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site Eat-walk-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap |
#87
|
|||
|
|||
On 2005-02-01, Padraig Breathnach wrote:
Well, yes and no. The expression is widely used and understood, but l'hexagone is not all of France. Although Le Pen might fervently hope that it were. Aha, Le Pen is an anti-imperialist. No wonder that he's such a target for hatred. |
#88
|
|||
|
|||
The Reids wrote in message . ..
Following up to Carlus you are wrong, we don't call our country "Frogland" neither does anybody else. Nicknames are reserved for people of a country "frogs", "roast beefs", "yanks" etc. What's funny for the french is that for them the frog is the traditional symbol for... rain ! for ex. in the expression "il pleut des grenouilles". Hexagone is very common. The shape of the country easily looks like an hexagone. I don't know if another country's general shape is as geometric. It is true that Marianne is originally the symbol of the french republic but as Mxsmanics said it progressively represented France as well, for ex. in the use for that purpose of a cartoonist in Le Figaro newspaper during decades. I don't know the origin of the rooster. It's a special and very colourfull rooster with blue tail, red, orange and yellow breast and wings which do really exists. The french believe it to have been found in France or brought or perhaps created by the gauls, the ancesters of the french, as a domestic animal, more than 2000 years ago. It was perhaps endemic to France like very few other animals (the Desman for ex.). It became probably a republican symbol in the 19th century because it cries and awakes everyone in the morning. But I don't know really. didier Meurgues |
#89
|
|||
|
|||
From: (meurgues) Organization: http://groups.google.com Newsgroups: rec.travel.europe Date: 11 Feb 2005 12:45:34 -0800 Subject: Does France Have A Nickname? Hexagone is very common. The shape of the country easily looks like an hexagone. I don't know if another country's general shape is as geometric. I don't know that either, but Italy is often referred to as "the Boot" because of its shape. Donna Evleth |
#90
|
|||
|
|||
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 16:49:23 +0100, Wolfgang Schwanke wrote:
Donna Evleth wrote in : I don't know that either, but Italy is often referred to as "the Boot" because of its shape. Scandinavia is obviously a "jumping lion". And Britain has always reminded me of ... http://www.firstartsource.com/Art/PFD1117.jpg Scandinavia looks more like a floppy penis and testicles, if you've ever looked at a 1 or 2 Euro coin. -- Tim C. |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
France will not give up on Euro Disney | poldy | Europe | 0 | January 27th, 2005 04:54 AM |
Cheap air travel within europe | Joe | Europe | 46 | February 22nd, 2004 09:04 PM |
Do French Women tend to be less endowed than other Women? | Andromoda893 | Europe | 94 | January 13th, 2004 05:56 AM |
Dear children of France | Frank Matthews | Europe | 37 | December 25th, 2003 02:34 PM |