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Bush May Send Up To 5 Marines For French Assistance

President Bush has authorized the Joint Chiefs to begin drawing up a battle plan to pull France's ass out of the fire again. Facing an apparent overwhelming force of up to 400 pissed off teenagers, Mr. Bush doubts France's ability to hold off the little pissants. "Hell, if the last two world wars are any indication, I would expect France to surrender any day now", said Bush. Joint Chiefs head, Gen. Peter Pace, warned the President that it might be necessary to send up to 5 marines to get things under control. The general admitted that 5 marines may be overkill but he wanted to get this thing under control within 24 hours of arriving on scene. He stated he was having a hard time finding even one marine to help those ungrateful bastards out for a third time but thought that he could persuade a few marines to do the job.

President Bush asked Gen. Pace to get our marines out of there as soon as possible after order was restored. He also reminded Gen. Pace to make sure the marines did not take soap, razors, or deodorant with them. The least they stand out the better.
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I actually don't like Bush much, and don't really mind the French most of the time, but you have to admit: that's pretty funny.

S.

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Yes, with armistice day here once again, its good to remember that the last war the French won was the American Revolutionary war. Really. Check it out.

Algerian War of Independence - 1964 - France leaves Algeria
Vietnamese War of Independence - 1950-1954 - France leaves defeated after Dien Bien Phu
World War II -1939-1945 - France is occupied until rescued by Britain and the US
World War I - 1914-1918 - One third of France is occupied until the end of the War, the Second Battle of the Marne is only a victory because of newly arrived US troops.
Franco- Prussian War - 1870 - France loses Alsace Lorraine to new German state after six month War.
Napoleonic Wars - 1791-1815 - France occupies most of Europe, only to lose it all, and exhaust the country for two generations.

Yes, France, the punchline to almost any joke.

S.

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AP and UPI reported that after the rioting in Paris,the French government today raised its terror alert level from RUN, to HIDE on their four level danger scale. The two higher French danger levels are Surrender and Collaborate. The rise was precipitated by a fire yesterday, which destroyed France's white flag factory, effectively paralyzing their military according to informed sources.

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Very nice. The poor French. I'd actually like to own at least one of their cars:

The suspension is based on the Cup set-up. As a reminder, over the normal Renaultsport 182, this has lower ride height, stiffer springs (20% front, 15% rear), re-rated dampers (+20% front, +10% rear), strengthened front wheel hub carriers and revised steering geometry.

The Trophy suspension is lowered a further 10mm at the front with shorter springs. The dampers are supplied by Sachs Race Engineering and have a unique damping force/velocity curve. Normally only used in competition cars, these dampers cost 10 times more than a conventional road car damper and feature a remote reservoir to accommodate nearly 50% of the oil and gas. This remote reservoir provides three benefits:

It liberates enough space to package a thicker and therefore stiffer damper rod, thus increasing camber compliance. The increased oil volume brings better thermal stability, to enable the damper to maintain optimal performance at all times. The space liberated allows the hydraulic components and damper valving to work more effectively

Another unusual feature of the damper is that a hydraulic bump stop replaces the usual physical elastometric one. This gives a much more progressive stiffness rate once the bump stop starts to work and thus allows a lower ride height without compromising bump travel. The objective of the lower ride height is to improve the turn in and reduce understeer.

Overall, these chassis modifications give the Trophy much improved damping control at all speeds, improved traction and reduced body movements (roll and pitch). This is particularly noticeable on poor quality roads i.e. typical English B roads

These dampers are much more expensive than those normally used on road cars and their use will always be restricted to specialist performance cars.

The wheels are Speedline Turini in anthracite (these are the same design to those used on the Renaultsport 172 Cup, though with a different offset and new colour). These wheels save 1.3kg each and this reduction in the unsprung weight further improves the wheel control and therefore handling.

S.