America stole its goverment from France

[Strike For The South]

Rosseau Montisque. Im sorry we Anericans ripped you off@

[Mikeus Caesar]

I hear there's rumours on those internets...

:inquisitive:

[CountArach]

I hear there's rumours on those internets...

:inquisitive:
Yeah, but we can't trust them. I bet he read it on Wikipedia!

[Meneldil]

Everything has been stolen from France at some point.

[CountArach]

Everything has been stolen from France at some point.
Except the French, but that's only because no one wants them :laugh4:

[Brenus]

"Rosseau Montisque. Im sorry we Anericans ripped you off": You probably refere to Rousseau and Montesquieu. And what's new, when you see the price paid for Louisiana?:beam:

[Husar]

If that includes the election process many here call undemocratic and stupid(you may include me), then I don't know why you should be sorry or what's so brilliant about it. :sweatdrop:

[Peasant Phill]

They only stole the ideas not the system itself. The French should've pattented it, they would be the biggest superpower now. Most democratic countries have founded there thinking on the ideas of Montesquieu and Rousseau.

[Tristuskhan]

And what's new, when you see the price paid for Louisiana?:beam:


One year and a half of the US government ressources at that time, if I remember well....

[macsen rufus]

You paid for Louisiana? :clown:

[rory_20_uk]

A patent is usually only valid for a period of time, often 25 years. So not bonanza then.

And I thought that Louisiana was sold partly as better to sell now than for either Britain or the USA to annexe it, as what happened later to much of Spain's land.

~:smoking:

[Vladimir]

Duh!

[Louis VI the Fat]

I'm sorry we Americans ripped you off@That's allright, you're welcome. I mean, if it weren't for enlightened French philosophical influence America could've turned out a Christian fundamentalist, conservative, brutal capitalistic country that tramples the weak both at home and abroad. :smash:

[Vladimir]

That's allright, you're welcome. I mean, if it weren't for enlightened French philosophical influence America could've turned out a Christian fundamentalist, conservative, brutal capitalistic country that tramples the weak both at home and abroad. :smash:

:inquisitive: Uh-huh. :viking:

[Gregoshi]

SFTS, don't forget we also stole the french fry and Paris Hilton.

[Vladimir]

SFTS, don't forget we also stole the french fry and Paris Hilton.

More like borrowed the french fry, we don't cover it in mayonnaise. The same doesn't apply for Paris Hilton.

[KukriKhan]

Just a technicality, but Rousseau was actually a Genevan; today, we would call him Swiss, not French (though he lived in France much of his life; also in UK, Prussia, Poland, etc. etc.).

Montesquieu, a born and raised Frenchman, listed Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, Nicolas Malebranche, John Locke as his influences.

So I guess we'd better apologize to some other countries as well for our thievery.

Ever since that cool invention, the written word, we've all stood on the shoulders of giants.

[Quid]

Just a technicality, but Rousseau was actually a Genevan; today, we would call him Swiss, not French

Apology accepted! Aynthing else you would like to have?

Quid

[Vladimir]

Apology accepted! Aynthing else you would like to have?

Quid

Hand over the chocolate and cheese please. :knight:

[Husar]

Ever since that cool invention, the written word, we've all stood on the shoulders of giants.
Four big elephants on a giant turtle? :inquisitive:

[Conradus]

SFTS, don't forget we also stole the french fry and Paris Hilton.

The french fry is Belgian:book2:

[Gregoshi]

The french fry is Belgian:book2:
You mean the French stole it from the Belgians!? How ironic!

Wonders about the
Belgian waffle...
:thinking2:

[King Henry V]

Rosseau Montisque. Im sorry we Anericans ripped you off@
Rosseau Montisque? Isn't he the Mexican porn actor?

[Lord Winter]

Well didn't he take his ideas off of rome and Locke (who was english so thus at the time one of our own.)

[TevashSzat]

Cough Cough...Greeks and Romans

[Boyar Son]

Cough Cough...Greeks and Romans

Gotta say we took it from them really.

[Gregoshi]

Gotta say we took it from them really.

What's the return policy on this? Ours appears to be broken...

[Mikeus Caesar]

America didn't steal the French Fry, they just made a very similar invention, the ever glorious Freedom Fry.

[Papewaio]

Most democratic countries have founded there thinking on the ideas of Montesquieu and Rousseau.

Should we do a list of Democratic Monarchies vs Republics. Which column is Haiti in again? Latin America? Australia? New Zealand? Denmark? ~:cool:

[Brenus]

"One year and a half of the US government ressources at that time, if I remember well...." Yep, but it was the French Louisiana, not the actual one, going from Canada to the actual Louisisna... So good bargain...:2thumbsup:
French mustard is not French. In fact no decent French will eat so-called French Mustard BUT will stick with the moutard de Dijon, genuine one...
French Fries and Mustard are named from the makers (Mr or Mss French, who could possibly be from French origine).

[Vladimir]

So who would steak or home fries be named after? :stupido2:

[KukriKhan]

Steak = from Old Norse steik, "roast".

Fries/fry = Middle English fri, probably from Anglo-Norman frie, from frier, to rub, from Latin fricāre.

[Vladimir]

Rub the Normans?

[gibsonsg91921]

hey! give voltaire his due credit

[Peasant Phill]

French Fries and Mustard are named from the makers (Mr or Mss French, who could possibly be from French origine).

I heard another story about the origins of the 'French' fries. Belgians claim to have invented the fries, called frieten in Dutch and frites in French.
The story goes that during WWI (or II) Americans saw French speaking Belgians prepare there fries and assumed that they were French hence French fries.