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Oct 13^th, 2011 at 6:54am

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You Could Have Heard A Pin Drop!

JFK’s Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France in the early 60’s when DeGaulle decided to pull out of NATO. DeGaulle said he wanted all US military out of France as soon as possible.
Rusk responded: “Does that include those who are buried here?”
You could have heard a pin drop!

There was a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking part, including French and American. During a break, one of the French engineers came back into the room saying, “Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help with the tsunami victims. What does he intend to do, bomb them?”
A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: “Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day. They can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water every day and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck. We have eleven such ships. How many does France have?
You could have heard a pin drop!

A Royal Navy Admiral was attending a naval conference that included Admirals from the English, US, Canadian, Australian and French navies. At a cocktail reception he found himself standing with a large group of officers that included personnel from most of those countries. Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks but a French admiral suddenly complained that, whereas Europeans learn many languages, the English learn only English. He then asked, “Why is it that we always have to speak English at these conferences rather than speaking French?”
Without hesitating, the English admiral replied, “Maybe it’s because the Brits, Canadians, Aussies and Americans arranged it so you would not have to speak German”
You could have heard a pin drop!

Robert Whiting, an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane. At French border control he took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carry-on bag. “You have been in France before, monsieur?” the French official asked sarcastically. Mr. Whiting admitted that he had been in France previously. “Then you should know enough to have your passport ready” The Englishman said, “The last time I was here I did not have to show it”. “Impossible. You English always have to show your passports on arrival in France!” The English senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he quietly explained:
“Well, when I came ashore at Gold Beach on D-Day in 1944 to help liberate this country, I could not find a single Frenchman to show a passport to!”
You could have heard a pin drop!

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Reply #1 - Oct 13^th, 2011 at 8:39am

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On the flip side there was the classic naval meeting at Nato headquarters where a French admiral got chatting to a British one and was commenting on the Falklands gong he was wearing. The British officer explained he'd been on one of the submarines in the Falklands war.
He then made a comment about how stupid the Argentines were claiming that British submarines were off their coast when it was well known they were in the middle of the Atlantic.
The French officers reply was laconic to say the least "Yes, we heard about that on the news. It is terrible, there were French submarines off their coast drag racing to annoy them and we got no recognition, they didn't even try and chase us!" Grin