Happy Bastille Day!

[Hardrada]

All you cheese-eating surrender monkeys and fellow travellers!!

[illinoisprogressive]

1. Yeah. gotta call mom. she is from france. wow.

[aikoaiko]

2. What's french for "Get some"?

[Hardrada]

7. C'est magnifique!

Thanks for the pic of the actual Bastille!

[Captain Hilts]

11. We gave the key to the Bastille back, didn't we? I think so. nt

[EFerrari]

3. Any excuse to wave those Mexican flags.

lol

[Ms. Clio]

13. LOL!

[Captain Hilts]

4. Yes, three cheers for the French, who taught us what Freedom is about. Laissez le bon temps roulez

on this day!

[Hardrada]

10. Merci, citoyens de La France!

[Mass]

5. Happy Bastille Day!

(and great signature line. Verlaine is my favorite poet).

[Hardrada]

8. Thanks! I should read more Verlaine.

[nradisic]

6. To the barricades!

OfF, By and For the People....

[Hardrada]

9. Aux barricades, mes amis!!

[DemoTex]

12. Bastille Day is my dog's (Nick) birthday. He was 5 yesterday.

Nick's full name is Canicula de la Bastille. Canicula is Latin for the Dog Star (Sirius is Greek), alpha-star of the constellation Canis Major. Our dog Sirius died two years ago next month.

Also, one of my neighbors (a Democrat) has been flying the Tri-Colors all week!

Vive la France

BTW: Nick's fear of noises (thunder, fireworks, power tools) has improved dramatically on the Reconcile (dogie Prozac).

[Hardrada]

17. Vive la France! Vive Nick!

Doggie prozac! I did not know that.

[marions ghost]

14. Joyeux quatorze juillet !

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way..."

A Tale of Two Cities ~Dickens

[Swamp Rat]

15. Listening to Rush right now...

"Bastille Day"

There's no bread, let them eat cake
There's no end to what they'll take
Flaunt the fruits of noble birth
Wash the salt into the earth

But they're marching to Bastille Day
La guillotine will claim her bloody prize
Free the dungeons of the innocent
The king will kneel and let his kingdom rise

Bloodstained velvet, dirty lace
Naked fear on every face
See them bow their heads to die
As we would bow as they rode by

And we're marching to Bastille Day
La guillotine will claim her bloody prize
Sing, oh choirs of cacophony
The king has kneeled, to let his kingdom rise

Lessons taught but never learned
All around us anger burns
Guide the future by the past
Long ago the mould was cast

For they marched up to Bastille Day
La guillotine claimed her bloody prize
Hear the echoes of the centuries
Power isn't all that money buys

[Hardrada]

16. Merci for the vivid lyrics

and the great picture of the siege. I remember how I cheered during the movie when the French National Guard showed up and opened fire on the Bastille and not the people of Paris. O joyous day!

[U4ikLefty]

18. Okay Swapy, I have never posted to ya before.

I have always loved your artistic expressions, but invoking that classic from Rush's Caress of Steel Album...you officially kick ass my friend!!!

[Swamp Rat]

20. Thanks... and in a galaxy far far away...

"Wal-Mart logic." :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

:D

[U4ikLefty]

21. Oh, you caught that...lol!!!

I'm a baaad boy!!! ;)

[bicentennial_baby]

19. I got married yesterday

An attempt to couple two very special days :D

[Longhorn]

22. Congratulations!

You're spending your honeymoon on DU? ;)

:toast:

[Longhorn]

23. We went to Bastille Day Fireworks!

AKA 4th of July fireworks re-scheduled due to rain. :)