Une petite corneille, peut-être ?
de Sploid:
Congress Surrenders to the “French”
[yeah, I’ve heard that French Congress has always been popular in Washington]
More than three years after one of the most pathetic displays of political petulance in this once-proud nation’s history, french fries have returned to Capitol Hill.
On March 11, 2003, Congress, led by Republic Representatives Bob Ney and Walter Jones, voted to eliminate all references to France from the House cafeterias’ menus. From that day forward “freedom fries” and “freedom toast” would replace “french fries” and “french toast” respectively.
Very quietly last week, the word “french” returned to the menus.
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Never mind that french fries are originally from Belgium.
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The change comes as France‘s popularity among Americans far exceeds that of the President. In a recent Pew survey, 52% of Americans said they had a favorable impression of France. Just last week, only 38% of Americans said they support the president.
As opposed to the mere link which I posted back in April.
And boy, was she pissed off! Ba-dump-dum.
And if you don’t know who Archie is, shame on you. Doncha gots Google where you live?
The ongoing fe/male red-haired Figwit-person debate continues. Is there a fansite yet?
From Gawker.
Take a hilarious trip through the Wayback Machine (I wanted one of those right up until I had a past that could catch up to me). They’ve pored over the crumbling scrolls of the Internet archives and put together a roundup of the best, and the worst, of 1996.
Suggested soundtrack: Grosse Point Blank soundtrack. Suggested accompaniments: pot, beer, and Doritos.
Suggested activity: removing all animated gifs from your website immediately. Follow up by purchasing and installing a horribly complicated graphics program that you use to redesign your site, but which will immediately date everything it touches site to within four months.
NOT suggested activity: not updating the site again until they do another of these.
There is very little I can say to rebuke this website. This is the best website I’ve ever seen. I navigated further into the world of Lego.com ’96 and on every single page I was greeted by pirates waving swords, knights riding horses, and overarchingly wizards on bicycles. This page alone has three wizards on bicycles lined up in a very majestic fashion, with an additional bonus wizard on a bicycle in the upper-right corner. In 1996, while most companies were still figuring out how to properly scan their company logo so that it didn’t look like a joke, Lego had discovered the key to web design, which is that randomly strewing little Lego men around one’s website is hilarious and engaging. If you feel like you need to cleanse your palette after seeing all the other websites featured in this article, please enjoy the following line of Lego men:
From Left to Right: Wizard on Bicycle, Wizard on Bicycle,
Wizard on Bicycle, Wizard on Bicycle, Wizard on Bicycle
“A time comes when silence is betrayal. Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak out with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.” -MLK
found on the Freeway Blogger.
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