Comments on: Stewart For America!

Stewart For America!

adrober — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 18:43:55 -0800

The Stewart For America Petition. "We, the undersigned, hereby request that French Stewart immediately change his name to 'Freedom' Stewart." Long live America.

By: cbrody

cbrody — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 18:49:00 -0800

I assume that this is meant as sarcasm, but the sad thing is that a lot of people will probably take it seriously!

By: hairyeyeball

hairyeyeball — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 18:51:16 -0800

I was once guilty of writing a headline for a really cheesy publication mixing celebrities and recipes. "Freedom" offered a pizza recipe, so the headline was "French's favorite food? Italian!" Personally, I prefer "Liberty" to "Freedom" as a replacement for the hated Gallic toast and kissing. It's more old school. The whole thing is idiotic, of course, and can't be mocked enough. Assuming this is a joke, of course. It damn well better be.

By: wendell

wendell — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 19:22:32 -0800

I'll bet the WB seminetwork wishes they'd left the remake of "Family Affair" in permanent hiatus hell rather than explain the name of Tim Curry's character... (more controversial than his Dr. Frank N. Furter in "Rocky Horror"? Says a lot about our times...) In the meantime, let's all have some Friday French Flash Fun with the kidsWB's "Faces of French" game!

By: cachilders

cachilders — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 19:30:45 -0800

Yay for French. He needs the promotion any way he can get it.

By: y6y6y6

y6y6y6 — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 19:45:21 -0800

Posts about renaming things that contain the word "French" never get old. Not ever. Even if one gets posted every single day. Thank you for this original and interesting link.

By: wendell

wendell — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 20:29:26 -0800

I love it when y6^3 gets pissed. He spontaneously explodes. Just be glad I resisted the temptation to FPP the "Faces of French" game. You just gotta wonder what Reckitt Benckiser PLC, makers of lots of toxic cleaning products and a couple food products, will do with it's mustard brand, considering they just finished re-branding those petri-fried onions-in-a-can you sprinkle on top of the stereotypical Green Bean Casserole from "Durkee" to "French's" (in fact, I'll bet the Campbell's Soup people are right now looking for another way to sell its Cream of Mushroom for the holiday season). Besides, "French's French Fried Onions" always seemed like the Department of Redundancy Department to me. BTW, y6, loved your version of MetaObscureStore in the "baby drugging" thread.

By: y0bhgu0d

y0bhgu0d — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 20:29:40 -0800

why can't we all just get along?

By: Hackworth

Hackworth — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 21:28:52 -0800

i preffer the john stewart

By: jkaczor

jkaczor — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 21:56:48 -0800

...after hearing the tail-end of a news story about how some local chain restaurant is re-naming things to match our US neighbours (a really dumb idea, considering we have 2 official languages, one of which is....), a wicked thought occured: If the US does not want to have anything related to the "french", perhaps they should graciously offer to remove that old hunk of scrap metal ya'll got hanging 'round in Neeeew Yark harbour, eh?....

By: angry modem

angry modem — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 22:26:47 -0800

inspector gadget 2 might be funnier than that link.

By: jonson

jonson — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 22:44:45 -0800

jkaczor - that IS clever. And original...

By: padraigin

padraigin — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 23:27:27 -0800

And to drink...Peru!

By: NorthernLite

NorthernLite — Sat, 15 Mar 2003 05:17:18 -0800

This would be funnier if the originators knew how to spell "immediately." The moral superiority you're going for in satire is undermined by, erm, tipos ;).

By: wendell

wendell — Sat, 15 Mar 2003 11:13:20 -0800

Typos, mister Northern Elite (always use the Spell Checker provided by Metal Filter - I did!)

By: NorthernLite

NorthernLite — Sat, 15 Mar 2003 12:21:29 -0800

It's Ms., wendell. And please note the "erm" and the wink, my signal of a deliberate misspelling for (attempted) humorous effect. (Because it was a post about people who can't spell ... see.) Oh, well. Anyway. (BTW, Mr. should be capitalized in your post. ;) ) NorthernLite, proud of her RL all-French name.

By: callmejay

callmejay — Sat, 15 Mar 2003 12:49:26 -0800

Oh. At first I thought The Stewart For America Petition was going to be an attempt to get (The Daily Show's) Jon Stewart on the ballot for president. And I was excited. :)