BS: Le Quatorze Juillet

Subject: BS: Le Quatorze Juillet
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 10:40 AM

Today as we all know [don't we?] is the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille in Paris on this date in 1789.
Now if you were to storm somewhere as a part of a revolution, where would you storm, and why?
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Le Quatorze Juillet
From: mack/misophist
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 11:15 AM

The white House. No need to ask why.

Subject: RE: BS: Le Quatorze Juillet
From: Alba
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 11:16 AM

The G8 Summit. Don't think I need to explain why on that one either...;)

Subject: RE: BS: Le Quatorze Juillet
From: CarolC
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 11:17 AM

Disney World.

Ummm... general principles, I guess. (Plus it would look cool.)

Subject: RE: BS: Le Quatorze Juillet
From: CarolC
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 11:18 AM

...but I like the G8 summit idea.

Subject: RE: BS: Le Quatorze Juillet
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 11:19 AM

Storm Karl Rove's office.

Subject: RE: BS: Le Quatorze Juillet
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 11:20 AM

Vive la republique! And isn't the point of the storming to liberate all the prisoners? Hmmm- -have to think about that!

Subject: RE: BS: Le Quatorze Juillet
From: freda underhill
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 11:25 AM

one of my great experiences is of being part of an 800-strong group of women who stormed pine gap, an american military base in the central desert of Australia, in 1983.

Subject: RE: BS: Le Quatorze Juillet
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 11:26 AM

Portneuf Brewing Company. Res ipsas loquitor.

Subject: RE: BS: Le Quatorze Juillet
From: The Walrus
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 12:11 PM

CarolC wrote on 14 Jul 06 @ 11:17 AM

"...Disney World.

Ummm... general principles, I guess. (Plus it would look cool.)..."

CarolC,

I now have visions of a band of well nourished and over-clean "sans culottes" (nice neat, cartoon like patches on the clothing, of course) parading around the burning wreckage of the Magic Kingdom, with the head of a certain rodent impaled on a pike.

W

Subject: RE: BS: Le Quatorze Juillet
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 12:24 PM

Well, from the freeing prisoners point of view, I guess it would have to be wherever the Enron Three are currently held after their unjust extradition to the USA.

Subject: RE: BS: Le Quatorze Juillet
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 12:29 PM

I now have visions of a band of well nourished and over-clean "sans culottes" (nice neat, cartoon like patches on the clothing, of course) parading around the burning wreckage of the Magic Kingdom, with the head of a certain rodent impaled on a pike.

Get that nasty Duck too while you're at it!

Subject: RE: BS: Le Quatorze Juillet
From: CarolC
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 12:39 PM

LOL

However, if it's about freeing prisoners, we certainly have more than enough of those to consider... Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib (and other prisons in Iraq), the secret prisons the CIA operates in Europe and elsewhere, people serving in "for profit" prisons in the US for possession of marijuana...

Subject: RE: BS: Le Quatorze Juillet
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 02:21 PM

Allons, enfants de la patrie; glory-day is here!!! Liberte! Egalite! Fraternite! Vive la republique! Barman, a round of cold, white vin (extremely) ordinaire for everyone. Happy birthday, France. Many happy returns. Thank you, Sieur de LaFayette.          Tw

Subject: RE: BS: Le Quatorze Juillet
From: harpmolly
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 02:41 PM

Do you hear the people sing?
It is the song of angry men;
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums,
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!

(Oops, wrong French revolution...but I think I'll put my Les Miz Complete Symphonic Recording on really loud and sing along while I clean the house today. It's the most Bastille Day-esque music I've got. ;)

Molly

Subject: RE: BS: Le Quatorze Juillet
From: gnu
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 02:47 PM

The pastry shop, obviously.

Subject: RE: BS: Le Quatorze Juillet
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 03:36 PM

...No saviour from on high delivers
No faith have we in prince or peer
Our own right hand the chains must shiver
Chains of hatred, greed and fear...

Oops. Wrong Revolution. Happy birthday, French Revolution

Subject: RE: BS: Le Quatorze Juillet
From: freda underhill
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 08:10 PM

I'm with you there, gnu!

Subject: RE: BS: Le Quatorze Juillet
From: robomatic
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 08:14 PM

Well, if there was still an Enron. . .

But failing that . . .

Citicorp

Microsoft

General Motors

Subject: RE: BS: Le Quatorze Juillet
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 Jul 06 - 04:50 AM

Holloway prison?
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Le Quatorze Juillet
From: The Walrus
Date: 15 Jul 06 - 06:09 AM

Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira,
Les aristocrates à la lanterne!
Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira,
Les aristocrates, on les pendra!

Subject: RE: BS: Le Quatorze Juillet
From: artbrooks
Date: 15 Jul 06 - 08:25 AM

Ben and Jerry's...or maybe BaskinRobbins. Who wants any of the rest of these people/places?