ROTFLMAO!!!
seeing something about the French remined me of this:
The Complete Military History of France
- 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 moment by
schizophrenic
teenaged girl, who inadvertently creates The First Rule of French
Warfare;
"France's armies are victorious only when not led by a
Frenchman."
- 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 Devolution - 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 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?"