PDA

View Full Version : This is real funny



lancelot
05-26-2004, 12:38
Many have probably seen this but for any who havent, go to google search for 'french military victories' and click 'Im feelin lucky'

This is priceless... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-2thumbsup.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/bigthumb.gif

The web IS developing its own intelligence....woah...

Fragony
05-26-2004, 12:46
Hehehe nasty http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

squippy
05-26-2004, 13:02
Yeah. Its amazing how the web forgets they kicked the Platagenets out of the mainland.

TonkaToys
05-26-2004, 13:43
Try clicking the
Quote[/b] ]did you mean button for a bit more fun.

octavian
05-26-2004, 18:56
rofl, classic http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/bigthumb.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/bigthumb.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/bigthumb.gif

octavian
05-26-2004, 18:58
to save you all the time and effort.........

(***Please note that the Web designer is not American and blaming the Web designer for America's history is illogical. Though you may critisize this oversimplified French history all you wish, blaming or threatening the Web designer is not nice.)


- Gallic Wars
- Lost. In a war whose ending foreshadows the next 2000 years of French history, France is conquered by of all things, an Italian.

- Hundred Years War
- Mostly lost, saved at last by female schizophrenic who inadvertently creates The First Rule of French Warfare; France's armies are victorious only when not led by a Frenchman. Sainted.

- Italian Wars
- Lost. France becomes the first and only country to ever lose two wars when fighting Italians.

- Wars of Religion
- France goes 0-5-4 against the Huguenots

- Thirty Years War
- France is technically not a participant, but manages to get invaded anyway. Claims a tie on the basis that eventually the other participants started ignoring her.

- War of Revolution
- Tied. Frenchmen take to wearing red flowerpots as chapeaux.

- The Dutch War
- Tied

- War of the Augsburg League/King William's War/French and Indian War
- Lost, but claimed as a tie. Three ties in a row induces deluded Frogophiles the world over to label the period as the height of French military power.

- War of the Spanish Succession
- Lost. The War also gave the French their first taste of a Marlborough, which they have loved every since.

- American Revolution
- In a move that will become quite familiar to future Americans, France claims a win even though the English colonists saw far more action. This is later known as de Gaulle Syndrome, and leads to the Second Rule of French Warfare; France only wins when America does most of the fighting.

- French Revolution
- Won, primarily due the fact that the opponent was also French.

- The Napoleonic Wars
- Lost. Temporary victories (remember the First Rule) due to leadership of a Corsican, who ended up being no match for a British footwear designer.

- The Franco-Prussian War
- Lost. Germany first plays the role of drunk Frat boy to France's ugly girl home alone on a Saturday night.

- World War I
- Tied and on the way to losing, France is saved by the United States. Thousands of French women find out what it's like to not only sleep with a winner, but one who doesn't call her Fraulein. Sadly, widespread use of condoms by American forces forestalls any improvement in the French bloodline.

- World War II
- Lost. Conquered French liberated by the United States and Britain just as they finish learning the Horst Wessel Song.

- War in Indochina
- Lost. French forces plead sickness; take to bed with the Dien Bien Flu

- Algerian Rebellion
- Lost. Loss marks the first defeat of a western army by a Non-Turkic Muslim force since the Crusades, and produces the First Rule of Muslim Warfare; We can always beat the French. This rule is identical to the First Rules of the Italians, Russians, Germans, English, Dutch, Spanish, Vietnamese and Esquimaux.

- War on Terrorism
- France, keeping in mind its recent history, surrenders to Germans and Muslims just to be safe. Attempts to surrender to Vietnamese ambassador fail after he takes refuge in a McDonald's.

The question for any country silly enough to count on the French should not be Can we count on the French?, but rather How long until France collapses?

Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. All you do is leave behind a lot of noisy baggage.

Or, better still, the quote from last week's Wall Street Journal: They're there when they need you.

BDC
05-26-2004, 19:38
Such a bloody classic.

Ah the poor French.

http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-no.gif

John86
05-26-2004, 19:41
Heres my favorite and its so true:
google search (http://www.geocities.com/leninimg01/)

Teutonic Knight
05-26-2004, 20:06
Quote[/b] (WarlordMasterHiji @ May 26 2004,14:41)]Heres my favorite and its so true:
google search (http://www.geocities.com/leninimg01/)
but doesn't work on the real Google...

Ironside
05-26-2004, 20:07
Internet Parody Hands French Military a Defeat
by Richard J. Dalton Jr
Newsday, March 13, 2003

The French always end up as military toast, or so it seems from a search on the popular Google search engine. But a miffed Canadian student is actually behind a prank that says no documents are found in a Google search for French military victories.
The search brings up a page that asks: Did you mean 'french military defeats.'

The French did win some wars. In fact, Google lists about 63,100 pages of French military victories.

But a Web page says no documents are found when searching for French military victories using Google's I'm Feeling Lucky button, which bypasses the list of search results and jumps directly to the first Web page in the list.

That happens to be a mock-up page of Google, suggesting a search for french military defeats. The large Google logo at the top tends to distract Web surfers from the address in the Web browser: www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/victories.html.

Steve Lerner, a 22-year-old Toronto student, said he created the page as a humorous way of showing political opposition against France's weaseling.

Lerner said he received 50,000 hits in 18 hours on Tuesday, before the site went down for technical reasons unrelated to the large volume of Web traffic. He said it will be back up by the weekend or sooner.

Lerner said he managed to make the page the first search result by listing French military victories in several key areas. But Google claims its complex search methods make human tampering with search results difficult.

Lerner hasn't heard from Google, and chances are he won't.

A spokesman for Google , based in Mountain View, Calif., had no comment. But the search engine generally turns its back on parodies, recognizing that eventually the pages will be less visible as they fall down further in the search engine's results list.

© 2003, Newsday, Inc.

son of spam
05-28-2004, 02:55
yeah, there was all this linkage in google about

miserable failure
and
great president
too.

Guess who it is? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/tongue.gif

Kaiser of Arabia
05-29-2004, 21:25
450th post, just 50 more 2 go
How the hell did the mods let me get this much?
Oh, yeah:
It's George Dubya Bush or Clinton, or Nixon.
-Capo