1.French. They taste like chicken!"
---- Hannibal Lecter
2."France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. France has usually been governed by prostitutes."
---Mark Twain
3."I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me."
--- General George S. Patton
4."Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion."
--Norman Schwartzkopf
5."As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure"
---Jacques Chirac, President of France
6."As far as France is concerned, you're right."
---Rush Limbaugh
7."The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don't know."--- P.J O'Rourke (1989)
8.Next time there's a war in Europe, the loser has to keep France. "The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into Paris under a German flag."--David Letterman
9. "I don't know why people are surprised that France won't help us get Saddam out of Iraq. After all, France wouldn't help us get the Germans out of France!"
---Jay Leno
10.There was a Frenchman, an Englishman and Claudia Schiffer sitting together in a carriage in a train going through Provence. Suddenly the train went through a tunnel and as it was an old style train, there were no lights in the carriages and it went completely dark. Then there was a kissing noise and the sound of a really loud slap. When the train came out of the tunnel, Claudia Schiffer and the Englishman were sitting as if nothing had happened and the Frenchman had his hand against his face as if he had been slapped there. The Frenchman was thinking: 'The English fella must have kissed Claudia Schiffer and she missed him and slapped me instead.' Claudia Schiffer was thinking: 'The French fella must have tried to kiss me and actually kissed the Englishman and got slapped for it.' And the Englishman was thinking: 'This is great. The next time the train goes through a tunnel I'll make another kissing noise and slap that French bastard again.
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1.Goals of Communication:
The goals of communication vary across culture and languages. In the US, speech is often used to demonstrate eloquence, power or lack thereof. The presidential debates are good examples of this. So too are the expressions "For the sake of argument" or "I'll play the devils advocate and..."
But in many Asian cultures, the goals of communication is to achieve consensus of opinion and to promote group harmony. "Yes" can mean "no," "maybe," or even "we've got to think a little more about this and we don't want to fall out with you."

2.Styles of Communication:
So how do you know when yes really means no? Simply listen to the silent messages and read the invisible words.
US culture, with its long tradition of rhetoric, values verbal messages greatly. Other cultures are more sensitive to non-verbal means of communication, such as:
.Body posture
.Hand gestures
.Facial expressions
.Eye contact
.How close people stand to each other
Misunderstandings and blunders result from failing to recognize and understand many forms of non-verbal communication. kk

.Chapter 1 - On the 6th day God made plans to create Chuck Norris, on the 7th day he decided to lay low.
.Chapter 2 - Moses didn't part the Red Sea, Chuck Norris did... with his fist.
.Chapter 3 - Noah wouldn't have let Chuck Norris ride in the ark, cause there can't be two of Chuck Norris.
.Chapter 4 - Sodum and Gomorrah turned to salt at the sight of a Chuck Norris roundhouse kick.
.Chapter 5 - If Chuck would have been around, you wouldn't have heard of David or Goliath cause he would have kicked both of their asses.

1.A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
2.A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
3.A joke is a very serious thing.
4.A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
5.A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
6.A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
7.All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
8.Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
9.Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
10.Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.
11.By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
12.Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
13.Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
14.Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
15.Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
16.Eating words has never given me indigestion.
17.However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
18.I also hope that I sometimes suggested to the lion the right place to use his claws.
19.I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
20.I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
21.I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
22.I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
23.If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
24.If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
25.If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
26.Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

by Sir Winston Churchill
kk