Poppy Appeal

[Thedelldays]

I hope you all give to this charity..I certainly do...

 

here is a little story that makes me smile...

 

An 83 year old british gentleman arrived in paris by plane.

 

As he was fumbling in his bag for his passport a stern french lady asked if he had been to france before.

 

He admitted he had indeed been previously. The lady scarcastially said then you should know to have your passport out and waiting sir.

The gentleman said i didn't have to show it last time.

 

Impossible! The woman said, you british have always had to show your passports to get through here!

 

The man responded by whispering, well,when i came ashore on the beach on D Day in 1944, i couldn't find any ****ing frenchmen to show it to! . . .

 

 

Wear your poppy with pride!

[the stain]

That's a clearly made up story.

[Thedelldays]

That's a clearly made up story.

no way..!!

[stug76]

What do they do?

[PhilippineSaint]

That's a clearly made up story.

 

You Need to read the book "1000 years of annoying the french" a light hearted look at our Gallic friends history by the way I don't for one minute believe that little anecdote is not true.

[dubai_phil]

In other news, it is nice to see that besides The British Embassy, we are able to buy our Poppies down here every year at one of the major Supermarket Chains.

 

(Although this year I got mine at Gatwick on the way home from the Spuds game. Someone with a brain placed a collection box & Poppies just in front of the Security/Metal Detectors, they were doing a fine trade)

[the stain]

no way..!!

 

I think it is.

[solentstars]

I hope you all give to this charity..I certainly do...

 

here is a little story that makes me smile...

 

 

 

Wear your poppy with pride!

i always do get a poppy for all those great people who asked for so little but gave their lives for freedom we all enjoy today.

[mcjwills]

That's a clearly made up story.

 

no way..!!

 

Well if the story is not true it should be

[alpine_saint]

Superb. Though in fairness the Free French were on Sword beach and there was a lot of co-ordination with the Resistance.

[RedAndWhite91]

I wear my poppy with pride, it is important to never forget. The money goes to a very worthy cause too. I've sent off my cross and that will be planted in Westminster's field of remembrance.

 

[Sour Mash]

no way..!!

Impossible to know if the story is true or not, but my Grandad always loved the joke that the first time he went to France and Germany he managed it without a passport!

[Deano6]

It isn't true, but I believe what it tells us about the French is true.

[Marsdinho]

There is a story (that I cant quite find) of a French dignitary moaning to General Eisenhower about the amount of American troops still on French soil, even though the war had ended.

 

The French dignitary said something along the lines of: "Id be happy when every single yank is off these shores"

 

To which, Eisenhower replied: "That's fine, but what about all the ones buried here"

 

Touche

[Whitey Grandad]

We went to the cemetery at Colleville on a Sunday a few years ago and I was surprised to see how many French families were quietly and respectfully walking amongst the headstones. I was in Paris for the 50th anniversary of D-Day and all the bars were decorated with French, American and British flags and all the French that I met were very appreciative of what had been sacrificed to liberate them. I met an American there who had been an eighteen-year old coxswain on a landing craft at Omaha beach, and Slapton Sands and Guadalcanal. Quite a character.