Just a reminder: Tuesday is Bastille Day.

[trof]

Time to lube up the guillotine and crank up the escargot cooker.
Get the frites ready.
Vive la France.
Allons, enfants.
Mademoiselle from Armentiers, parlez vous?

:party:

[hobbit709]

1. Aux barricades!

[hippywife]

2. It also would have been

Woody Guthrie's 97th birthday. :hi:

[Xipe Totec]

3. Roberto Alagna - La Marseillaise

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqZ4GQ5ZPME

[GOPisEvil]

4. I might make steak au poivre that day.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/steak-au-poivre-recipe/index.html

Need some cognac though...and a steak...and cream. I have peppercorns though!

[TX Screwball]

5. And my birthday!

Time for some french bread pizzas!

[MajorChode]

6. Fun thing to do while in Paris

As a local:

Excuse moi, où est la Bastille?

[liberaltrucker]

7. Indeed!

Pouvoir la guillotine figurative descend sur l'ancienne Présidence.

May the figurative guillotine descend upon the former Presidency!

:party:

[helderheid]

8. Oui!

[Brother Buzz]

9. Didn't Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre run the The Committee of Public Safety

He lost head in the end, I believe, but had nothing to do with the proverbial phrase "hoist with his own petard".

[Swede]

10. This post is useless without pictures.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

11. Oh, rats -

I don't remember where I left that French Tickler.............

[Tuesday Afternoon]

12. ouch

that ain't right.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

13. I was wondering

who'd know what it meant.

Of course - you.

Nice catch, my friend ........................

[Tuesday Afternoon]

14. but, of course it would be me...

mon ami ;)

[WolverineDG]

15. Don't lose your head!

Marchon! Marchon!

dg

[bikebloke]

16. Oui. Lop off a few heads,

Plutocrats, naturally.

In DC, they usually close Pennsylvania Ave for the waiters race. This year I'll try to remember my camera to document it for posterity.

[DeepBlueC]

17. for that special someone...

[RushIsRot]

18. Also the fifth anniversary of my retirement.

[Flaxbee]

19. ...and my dad's 81st birthday

We got him a cake once, and told the caterer to put "Happy Bastille Day" on it.... they obviously had NO CLUE, because we picked the cake up and it said "Happy Best Deal Day" :rofl: My dad loved it.