From: J.Wiehe (j.wiehe@sympatico.ca)
Date: Fri Feb 17 2006 - 20:57:55 PST
John Wayne never surrendered to the French
Last heard he was doing pinwheels in his grave over
Jim Wiehe
Brokeback Mountain.
j.wiehe@sympatico.ca
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen Closson" <glen_closson@earthlink.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] How it happened
> I think you made this up. :)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: timothy.smith1@att.net
> >Sent: Feb 17, 2006 9:00 AM
> >To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> >Subject: [MV] How it happened
> >
> >France's law-making body, "Les Follies", today formally admitted their proposal
> >to ban private ownership of all historic former military vehicles was based on
> >an idea they borrowed from a film produced in the United States in the late
> >1960's. Well known for its violent and bloody story line, the American film was
> >viewed in a private showing to Les Follies, who were preparing to reaffirm the
> >legal foundations supporting the traditional French means of avoiding violence
> >which is by means of immediate formal capitulation or by formally capitulating
> >on a regular basis to no one in particular.
> >
> >The film, TRUE GRIT (1969), was written by Margeurite Roberts, a blacklisted
> >writer of that era. Beloved American tough-guy actor, John Wayne, plays the
> >main character, Marshall Rooster J. Cogburn, a hard-as-nails dispenser of
> >frontier justice, out to catch a cold-blooded killer. The killer, Lucky Ned
> >Pepper (Robert Duval) has taken refuge in the territory Cogburn serves. On his
> >journey, Cogburn finds himself accompanied by a young woman, Mattie Ross (Kim
> >Darby) and handsome Texas Marshall La Boeuf (Glen Campbell). Each character
> >pursues the killer for his/her own reasons.
> >
> >In a key scene where Mattie Ross looks on as the lawmen engage in a wild
> >shoot-out with Lucky Ned Pepper and his gang of desperados, Marshall LaBoeuf
> >shoots a horse from beneath Pepper, killing it. In a later scene, Marshall
> >Cogburn introduces La Boeuf as "The great horse-shooter from Texas." Cogburn
> >continues the introduction with, "He believes in putting everyone afoot...says
> >there'll be less mischief that way.."
> >
> >Senior members of Les Follies stated (with an outrageous French accent), "It
> >waas quiet zee revelation for us. Unteel zen, all we cood doo waas to
> >con-seeder how to queekly giff zee tradeetional Frrrench capitulation. Zee
> >charachter La Boeuf ees wreeten by zee woomaan Margeurite! Both goo-ood French
> >names, no? Zees makes zem connected in zee special way. It was at zees mo-ment
> >we knew ex-zactly what was re-quir-ed to keep our glorious France safe for zee
> >men, zee women and zee cheel-dren. We maast poot ef-verywon on foo-oot to make
> >less zee miss-cheef! Zees weel esure our saf-ety. Vive la FRANCE!"
> >
> >It remains to be seen what effect this law, if enforced, will have on French
> >national security.
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