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Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: Jamie B on March 09, 2012, 10:23:36 AM
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http://news.yahoo.com/american-auto-bailout-france-100824412--abc-news.html
GM spent $400M buying 7% of Peugeot.
GM claims that they need the small car and hybrid technology that Peugeot currently has.
Since US taxpayers own 25% of GM, they now own a portion of Peugeot.
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I demand a free croissant and a bottle of wine.
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I demand a free croissant and a bottle of wine.
How about 1 frog leg and a glass of California wine? [tinfoil]
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How about 1 frog leg and a glass of California wine? [tinfoil]
I'll take the wine, but pass on the Frenchman's leg.
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Peugeot can't give 'em away--wait, that sounds like the Volt...
If they need to go to Peugeot for small car/hybrid tech they are truly in serious trouble. Or should I say WE are?
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Now with the purchase of a GM product, a slightly used french rifle. Never fired, only dropped once!
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Once upon a time (allegedly) in a nice little forest, there lived an orphaned bunny and an orphaned snake.
By a surprising coincidence, both were blind from birth.
One day, the bunny was hopping through the forest, and the snake was slithering through the forest, when the bunny tripped over the snake and fell down. This, of course, knocked the snake about quite a bit.
"Oh, my," said the bunny, "I'm terribly sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you. I've been blind since birth, so, I can't see where I'm going. In fact, since I'm also an orphan, I don't even know what I am."
"It's quite OK," replied the snake. "Actually, my story is much the same as yours. I, too, have been blind since birth, and also never knew my mother. Tell you what, maybe I could slither all over you, and work out what you are, so at least you'll have that going for you."
"Oh, that would be wonderful" replied the bunny. So the snake slithered all over the bunny, and said, "Well, you're covered with soft fur; you have really long ears; your nose twitches; and you have a soft cottony tail. I'd say that you must be a bunny rabbit."
"Oh, thank you! Thank you," cried the bunny, in great excitement.
The bunny suggested to the snake, "Maybe I could feel you all over with my paw, and help you the same way that you've helped me."
So the bunny felt the snake all over, and remarked, "Well, you're smooth and slippery, and you have a forked tongue, no backbone or no balls. I'd say you must be French."
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Jamie, I actually LOL'd at that. Haven't heard it before!
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The only way this could be more absurd is if we were subsidizing wind powered cars.
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Jamie, I actually LOL'd at that. Haven't heard it before!
Nor had I, and I had the same initial response!
Glad that you enjoyed it!