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I was having dinner...in London...when eventually he got, as the Europeans always do, to the part about "Your country's never been invaded." And so I said, "let me tell you who those bad guys are. They're us. WE BE BAD. We're the baddest-assed sons of bitches that ever jogged in Reeboks. We're three-quarters grizzly bear and two-thirds car wreck and descended from a stock market crash on our mother's side. You take your Germany, France, and Spain, roll them all together and it wouldn't give us room to park our cars. We're the big boys, Jack, the original, giant, economy-sized, new and improved butt kickers of all time. When we snort coke in Houston, people lose their hats in Cap d'Antibes. And we've got an American Express card credit limit higher than your piss-ant metric numbers go. You say our country's never been invaded? You're right, little buddy. Because I'd like to see the needle-dicked foreigners who'd have the guts to try. We drink napalm to get our hearts started in the morning. A rape and a mugging is our way of saying 'Cheerio.' Hell can't hold our sock-hops. We walk taller, talk louder, spit further, fuck longer and buy more things than you know the names of. I'd rather be a junkie in a New York City jail than king, queen, and jack of all Europeans. We eat little countries like this for breakfat and shit them out before lunch."

Of course, this guy should have punched me. But this was Europe. He just smiled his shabby, superior European smile. (God, don't these people have dentists?)

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Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
No.

I expect your kind.

Can't have light without the dark, afterall.

So, glad to see you and yours.

It just means that we are doing the good and right thing.

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Originally posted by fivver:
Wulf, I think P.J. O'Rourke got it right in his book 'Holidays in Hell':

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I was having dinner...in London...when eventually he got, as the Europeans always do, to the part about "Your country's never been invaded." And so I said, "let me tell you who those bad guys are. They're us. WE BE BAD. We're the baddest-assed sons of bitches that ever jogged in Reeboks. We're three-quarters grizzly bear and two-thirds car wreck and descended from a stock market crash on our mother's side. You take your Germany, France, and Spain, roll them all together and it wouldn't give us room to park our cars. We're the big boys, Jack, the original, giant, economy-sized, new and improved butt kickers of all time. When we snort coke in Houston, people lose their hats in Cap d'Antibes. And we've got an American Express card credit limit higher than your piss-ant metric numbers go. You say our country's never been invaded? You're right, little buddy. Because I'd like to see the needle-dicked foreigners who'd have the guts to try. We drink napalm to get our hearts started in the morning. A rape and a mugging is our way of saying 'Cheerio.' Hell can't hold our sock-hops. We walk taller, talk louder, spit further, fuck longer and buy more things than you know the names of. I'd rather be a junkie in a New York City jail than king, queen, and jack of all Europeans. We eat little countries like this for breakfat and shit them out before lunch."

Of course, this guy should have punched me. But this was Europe. He just smiled his shabby, superior European smile. (God, don't these people have dentists?)

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
O'Rourke's quote is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. America is not, has never been, and will never be about any of that jingoistic crap that he spewed. Might doesn't make right, it never has. People wrapping themselves up in an American flag with delusions of moral superiority are as dangerous to me as anyone else.

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
O'Rourke's quote is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
O'Rourke's quote is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. America is not, has never been, and will never be about any of that jingoistic crap that he spewed. Might doesn't make right, it never has. People wrapping themselves up in an American flag with delusions of moral superiority are as dangerous to me as anyone else.

The War of 1812 is a fascinating bit of American history. It's been in the news lately because they just found the sunken wreck that Perry commanded off the Eastern coast. Because his ship sank, he was re-assigned, and later defeated the British at the Battle of Lake Erie, a turning point in America's victory over England.

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Originally posted by Niki2:
Of course that's true...but I'm confused: Are you saying other countries AREN'T?


Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off

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