recent francophobic slur

[Jonathan Lighter]

They don't do as well with "Axis of weasels" [sic], which I've heard (on Fox, of course) only without the plural "s." The non-count form makes it funnier, relatively speaking, of course.

JL

Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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Subject: Re: recent francophobic slur
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On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> Google turns up about 30,000 exx. of "cheese-eating surrender monkeys"
> as a ridiculing epithet for the French.

Wikipedia has a great little article on "Cheese-eating surrender monkeys."
This is actually, in my view, an outstanding example of Wikipedia at its
best, writing authoritatively about something that no traditional
encyclopedia would ever think of having an article about.

Fred Shapiro


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