1 Hey, that's not Bram Stoker's Dracula by Coppola is it?

2 A friend had the slapping thing happen to him--he assumed it was a gang initiation or something. Kind of pathetic, really.

*The Gary Oldman version of Dracula, line spoken by
Winona Ryder

3 No. It's Mina Harker in Coppola's Dracula! You're quick off the blocks but you're not specific. (freakin jackrabbit lore master, give somebody else a chance willyaz)

4 Not that I admire the behavior of France in the WOT, but we do have the pre-commie French to thank for the Battle of Yorktown and our independence from Britain.

Our history books make it seem like the French just blocked the retreat of the British by sea, but there was also a French artillery position that pinned them to the sea and the French navy did more than just "block". They fought a vicious battle with the British navy that sailed from New York to rescue the British force.

During the surrender the British band played "The World Turned Upside Down" as they laid down their arms. That showed how shocked they were that they lost to a ragtag army. And everyone knew at the time it was like the Northern Alliance beating the Islamofascists...without the technologicaly superiority of help from a superpower, the Americans would not have won in Yorktown.

The French superpower would be laid low within 10 years by a left wing revolution from within. :-(

But even then, the free men army that Napoleon built was unstoppable at Austerlitz and against the Prussians at Jena?

Unlike the German Wehrmacht, the French Army actually captured Moscow in 1812.

I still like all the French jokes however. Just find the Google search of French Military Victories to be forgetting things like the above as well as the Braddock battle in Ohio during the French and Indian Wars where George Washington literally got his butt kicked with two horses shot out from under him by the French.

5 Russia burned Moscow to the ground. They destroyed everything before the French army, denying Napoleon resources to sustain his army. Upon arriving in Moscow, Napoleon surmised there was nothing to keep, he left.
 
On the way home, the French army was destroyed by the cold, disease and starvation. Napoleon left his army to return to Paris and spin it as a victory, and cover his ass.

6 Napoleon taught the world many valuable lessons in warfare, including the first three rules of war in Europe:

1. Never invade Russia.

2. Never invade Russia.

3. Never invade Russia.

7 I actually like the French especially that tri-color flag - ain't saying no more less I upset cmunk.

8 France can't be all bad. Hemingway lived there for years.

9 Yes, YBP, and Papa died long ago, along with the France he loved.

10 I went to France one time. And the people stank to high heaven. I much prefer Italy, it is much more to my taste, and the women, OMG. I love Italian women. Why didn't I marry one?

11 The French look good going into the worlds. Boris Diaw and Tony Parker. Good combo.

12 YBP: Come on now. Give IM a hand on that come back.

13 Papa dead?! Has someone told Scribner's?!!!

BTW--good luck finding a French cabbie these days. As in NYC, they are all imports.