Ron sent me this rare photo of the 1940 Tour de France.

I REALLY needed a good laugh today. Thanks, Denny
Posted by: Greg on July 29, 2009 02:12 PMOk, that's a good one. It's getting harder to find people who would understand that picture.
Posted by: Marshall on July 29, 2009 02:56 PMMy brother would have loved that.
Posted by: Claudia on July 29, 2009 03:06 PMThat is a good one.
Posted by: Tina on July 29, 2009 03:10 PMBut, where is Lance armstrong????????????????
Posted by: Chris on July 29, 2009 03:11 PMWhere are the throngs of white-flag waving Frenchies cheering on the cyclists?
Posted by: thatjerryguy on July 29, 2009 03:45 PMYou have the photoshopped version Denny. Here's the original
Posted by: Rodger Schultz on July 29, 2009 03:45 PMphenomenal. Rodger ~ brilliant
Posted by: patrick on July 29, 2009 05:00 PMNice job, Rodger!
Posted by: John Galt on July 29, 2009 05:14 PMI think the 1940 race didn't take as long as the modern one
Posted by: Paul J on July 29, 2009 05:20 PMIs that the US Army after Carbon Tax cutbacks and global warm---climate change?
Posted by: Jim_Macklin on July 29, 2009 06:26 PMWhat a HOOT!! LMAO
Posted by: Reid on July 29, 2009 06:43 PMAchtung,
You vill vatch dis und you vill like it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAnU_eqn6II
Danke und sieg heil,
Der Obamafurher!
Posted by: Toejam on July 30, 2009 12:08 AMBefore we go too far with this, why isn't our own CD invited to the "Beer Summit" Thursday at the White House picnic ground??
I know he likes Bud and I prefer Beck's ("When You're Having More Than One!"), but at least ONE of >US ought to be invited!
If "Ms. Palin" wants to be in the general vicinity of the parking lot afterward, I'm sure she can be accomodated.
Note the keyword here is "IF"! :)
I'm just not sure how "BeerSummit" goes outside of my own experience.
Posted by: DanS on July 30, 2009 01:06 AMOne further thing:
Is the unit-pic shown here a fire-team, a squad, a platoon, a company or regiment?
Seriously: in light of unit-organization at the time, what is it? Maybe a squadron?
No light-weight answers, if you please!
Posted by: DanS on July 30, 2009 01:21 AMDan S,
The real skinny is;
Prof. Gates is IRISH
Don't believe me? see:
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=8195564&page=1
And everyone knows that Ireland was a neutral country in WW-II
Posted by: Toejam on July 30, 2009 02:19 AMBWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Posted by: dudley1 on July 30, 2009 08:10 AM"Is the unit-pic shown here a fire-team, a squad, a platoon, a company or regiment?"
DanS, the cycling term 'peloton' is French for 'platoon', so there you have it. It also translates to 'little ball', but I won't make any LiveStrong testicular cancer jokes at this juncture.
CD at the beer summit? There ain't enough beer in D.C.
Posted by: Jackie D on July 30, 2009 09:57 AMJackie D
When Armstrong arrived in France for the 2009 tour, the French officials were especially diligent in searching both his person and his luggage.
They discovered among other things that Lance has one more testicle then most Frenchmen.
In his lugggage they found several suspicious items. When these were tested, they were found to be soap, shampoo, toothpaste and deodorant.
Jeremy.......
OUCH!!! Actually those items were more then suspicious....as then they were unknown in France so some type of new explosives were suspected.
Posted by: dudley1 on July 30, 2009 12:02 PMJackie D:
SPLENDID answer!
dudley1: ! I'll use a variation of that next chance I get!
Posted by: DanS on July 30, 2009 12:13 PMUnbelievable, so much hate regarding the French. Something tell me that 30% of the US population is pretty much retarded. I don't think this pic funny, those are nazy, and only idiots will try to use others idiots to make fun of the French. Let's find a pic on the web where musulmans will be used to make fun of the great defeat of US fighting terrorism. Mission accomplish I forgot. I am only talking right now to a minority of idiots, but it feels good.
Posted by: Ollie on August 5, 2009 04:56 PMOllie - We don't hate the French. We just like to make fun of them, after all, you are cheese eating surrender monkeys. You do have trees along your streets so the Germans can march in the shade. And we have been defeated by Moo-slimes? Dude, it's you French fags who are afraid to go into areas of Paris and its suburbs where the Moo-slimes are. How are the car burnings coming along? We kicked ass in Iraq. We are kicking ass in Afghanistan and you cower in your own capital city.
Posted by: Denny on August 5, 2009 05:11 PM