Thanks, France
December 29th, 2004 at 9:16 am by Preston Taylor HolmesSpeaking of stingy, how much has France donated to relief efforts?
100,000 Euros. That’s about $135,000 (roughly).
Thanks a bunch, France. You can now go back to surrendering, eating cheese and plowing each other in the dumper. As usual, we’ll do the work for you. Assholes.
UPDATE:
Speaking of the French, my home-slice Derek sent me this joke a while back, might as well use it now.
The first surgeon says, “I like to see accountants on my operating table, because when you open them up, everything inside is numbered,” The second responds, “Yeah, but you should try electricians. Everything inside them is color-coded,” The third surgeon says, “No, I really think librarians are the best; everything inside them is in alphabetical order.”
But the fourth surgeon, Dr. Morris Fishbein, shuts them all up when he observes: “The French are the easiest to operate on. There’s no guts, no heart, no balls and no spine. Plus the head and ass are interchangeable.”
December 29th, 2004 at 3:07 pm
Bush Responds To Stingy Comment
WASHINGTON – President Bush defended American generosity Wednesday, even as his administration figures out how to pay for more help beyond the $35 million it has already promised to tsunami victims in Asia.
In his first remarks since the weekend dis…
December 29th, 2004 at 5:01 pm
Who the Stingy One Really Is
According to Six Meet Buffet, France has donated an enormous, whooping $135,000 USD to the Asian Tsunami relief fund. Thanks France, that will last long..not. Rob at Say Anything has done the math to show who the stingy one is….
December 29th, 2004 at 5:31 pm
You actually used the word home-slice. You even put a dash in there, like you meant it.
December 29th, 2004 at 10:06 pm
Oh yeah, cowboy? Well how much did Amerikan taxpayers pony up for Hamas or Fatah??? J’accuse!!!
December 30th, 2004 at 12:01 am
I love the joke. I took French in high school and college and was rather bad at it… AND SINCE THEY ARE a bunch of jerks, I don’t feel bad about screwing up their language.
December 30th, 2004 at 12:37 am
You can always count on the French
December 30th, 2004 at 10:22 pm
The French government has now pledged a total of at 56 million dollars, including its portion of a 20-million-euro European Union aid program.
Other leading government contributors were Japan at 40 million dollars, the Netherlands at 36 million dollars, Canada at 32.8 million dollars, Germany at 27 million dollars, Australia at 27 million dollars, Portugal at 11 million dollars, Saudi Arabia at 10 million dollars, and Arab Gulf neighbor of Qatar at 10 million dollars.
December 30th, 2004 at 10:26 pm
Who’d have thunk they could be shamed out of such a sum! Thanks for the update.