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Sat330pmAppt

Sat330pmAppt

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Searched for college fb blogs and got this result:

college football blog - Google Search

Scrolled down and saw “Found in Related Searches: Top College Coaches”

The results were startling:

I don’t know how to paste the picture of our least favorite trumpeter, but he came up as #1 with Jimbo, Hugh, Mullen & McElwain #2-5.

Reminds me of the time when you could type in “French Military Victories” in the search box and click, “I’m Feeling Lucky”, and the results would come back as “No results found. Did You Mean French Military Defeats?”

:lolabove:
 
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I don’t think that we should tell Google. Maybe another Gundy-like coaching search will fall for Google’s assertion that Butch is a “Top College Coach” and hire him, reducing the amount owed by UT on his buyout.

Wishful thinking, I know...:lolabove:
 
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Methinks OP has never heard of Napoleon Bonaparte who dominated Western Europe with his magnificent military conquests.
Don't denigrate the French unless you know what you're talking about.
 
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Special Ed said:
Methinks OP has never heard of Napoleon Bonaparte who dominated Western Europe with his magnificent military conquests.
Don't disparage the French unless you know what you're talking about.
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The French are 0-8 in land battles since Napoleon...kind of like Butch in the SEC after the Music City Bowl.

My Beef Wellington was delicious last night...skipped pastries for dessert...

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Sat330pmAppt said:
The French are 0-8 in land battles since Napoleon...kind of like Butch in the SEC after the Music City Bowl.

My Beef Wellington was delicious last night...skipped pastries for dessert...

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Pretty sure they got the better of it in the end after WWI and WWII. Normandy might gave failed if not for the resistance and key contributions of Free French units.

They certainly had a rough go of it in Vietnam, but then again, so did we.

I think the Maginot line gave them a bad rep from which they've yet to recover, perhaps deservedly so.

Nonetheless I don't see the reason for running down a staunch ally of the US, but for a cheap laugh.

Even assuming the reputation is correct, they may be bad at war, but between Champagne, French Fries, Cognac, and tongue kisses, there's no denying they're great at life.
 
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kcvols1 said:
Pretty sure they got the better of it in the end after WWI and WWII. Normandy might gave failed if not for the resistance and key contributions of Free French units.

They certainly had a rough go of it in Vietnam, but then again, so did we.

I think the Maginot line gave them a bad rep from which they've yet to recover, perhaps deservedly so.

Nonetheless I don't see the reason for running down a staunch ally of the US, but for a cheap laugh.

Even assuming the reputation is correct, they may be bad at war, but between Champagne, French Fries, Cognac, and tongue kisses, there's no denying they're great at life.
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Bad at war, great of food, wine, women and love. I agree with that assertion.

The original point of the thread was that Butch Jones is a “Top College Coach” and that Google produced some results that were not valid.

The history of the Google French Military Victories search page is actually a quite humorous retelling of all of France’s misadventures in colonialism as well as being habitually overrun by the Huns...

Off for a croissant...no beignets to be had where I am right now...

:birgits_giggle:
 
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Sat330pmAppt said:
Bad at war, great of food, wine, women and love. I agree with that assertion.

The original point of the thread was that Butch Jones is a “Top College Coach” and that Google produced some results that were not valid.

The history of the Google French Military Victories search page is actually a quite humorous retelling of all of France’s misadventures in colonialism as well as being habitually overrun by the Huns...

Off for a croissant...no beignets to be had where I am right now...

:birgits_giggle:
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And to be fair, let’s not forget the instrumental role that France and Lafayette played in our revolution vs. the British.

Here’s a link to that Google bomb:

french military victories - Google Search

:lolabove:
 
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Special Ed said:
Methinks OP has never heard of Napoleon Bonaparte who dominated Western Europe with his magnificent military conquests.
Don't disparage the French unless you know what you're talking about.
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I'm a bit of an amateur military historian, emphasis on amateur.

While there is no debating the contributions the French made in the Revolutionary War, or how Napolean dominated the European Continent during his glory years, or how French Navy ships in the age of sail were every bit as good as those launched by the English...

...when you eliminate the two single examples above of "French military conquests", you are left with roughly 300 years of good wine, good cheese, and a French military that managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in virtually every major conflict they were in over that time span. And I'm including DeGaulle.

JMO.
 
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Well, I’ve been married to a Frenchy for 35 years. Believe me when I tell ya you don’t want to fight with them! Lulz
 
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Ahhh...but a bottle of French wine, some soft French cheese, and a bit of 'amour (did I spell that right?)....almost worth the fight, Aight?

Go Vols.
 
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Special Ed said:
Methinks OP has never heard of Napoleon Bonaparte who dominated Western Europe with his magnificent military conquests.
Don't disparage the French unless you know what you're talking about.
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The fact that you have to go back over 200 years ago sorta strengthens his point.
 
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Special Ed said:
Methinks OP has never heard of Napoleon Bonaparte who dominated Western Europe with his magnificent military conquests.
Don't disparage the French unless you know what you're talking about.
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Napoleon was Corsican, also Waterloo.
 
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Special Ed said:
Methinks OP has never heard of Napoleon Bonaparte who dominated Western Europe with his magnificent military conquests.
Don't denigrate the French unless you know what you're talking about.
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Methinks Ed forgot about Waterloo.

And if we are having a banquet, I might call the French to cater it and they can bring the wine too. If we are going to war, they are way down the call list.
 
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kcvols1 said:
Pretty sure they got the better of it in the end after WWI and WWII. Normandy might gave failed if not for the resistance and key contributions of Free French units.

They certainly had a rough go of it in Vietnam, but then again, so did we.

I think the Maginot line gave them a bad rep from which they've yet to recover, perhaps deservedly so.

Nonetheless I don't see the reason for running down a staunch ally of the US, but for a cheap laugh.

Even assuming the reputation is correct, they may be bad at war, but between Champagne, French Fries, Cognac, and tongue kisses, there's no denying they're great at life.
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WWI was fought largely on French soil.

..."French casualties in WWI. World War I cost France 1,357,800 dead, 4,266,000 wounded (of whom 1.5 million were permanently maimed) and 537,000 made prisoner or missing — exactly 73% of the 8,410,000 men mobilized, according to William Shirer in The Collapse of the Third Republic."...

..."Of France's total population 1 out of 20 were killed."...

So the war casualties of the French were a huge percentage of their population. 73% of France's mobilized population became casualties (killed or injured). This left women, children, some young men, elderly, and injured. ...And that left a nation already confounded with PTSD if you will, to stand once again against a German Juggernaut at the outset of WWII. Unsuccessfully. WWI ripped the heart out of France and when partially healed WWII did it again.

And yes, the WWII French Resistance was hugely resopnsible for many successes against the Nazis.
 

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