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I think it shows just how out of touch he is with what's really going on. And Freedonia just proves it!!!!

2006-08-18 12:57:40 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government Politics

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I know! Thankfully, I believe Prince John can rise above these troubles and lead Freedonia to a new and even better future.

2006-08-18 13:05:54 · answer #1 · answered by timm1776 5 · 0 1

Just so every one knows:
Freedonia ("Land of the Spree, and the Home of the Knave") is a fictional country in Europe, depicted in the 1933 movie Duck Soup, which starred the Marx Brothers. Duck Soup was a box-office disappointment at first, but it has since been recognized as a classic film comedy, and seen as a subversive satire on war.

In the movie, tiny Freedonia is suffering from severe financial problems, and government leaders request a loan from wealthy widow Mrs. Teasdale to keep things afloat. The widow agrees on the condition that Rufus T. Firefly, played by Groucho Marx, take control and run the country. In the musical number that accompanies Firefly's first day in office, Groucho lets the audience know how things will run, singing lyrics such as "if you think this country's bad off now/Just wait till I get through with it."

Firefly insults and angers the Ambassador from the neighboring nation of Sylvania, which leads to war. Chico and Harpo Marx appear in the film as spies for Sylvania, and their trial for spying turns into an absurd musical number.

When the film was first released, the village of Fredonia, New York complained about the possible negative impact the film might have on them. The Marx Brothers replied, in typical Marx fashion, "Change the name of your town, you're hurting our picture".

In the 1960s, Woody Allen, working on Candid Camera, used Freedonia as a practical joke by asking passersby what they thought of the bid for independence for Freedonia. In the 1990s, the satirical magazine Spy pulled a practical joke on several members of the United States Congress. The magazine successfully convinced several Congressional members, such as Corrine Brown, to issue statements condemning the "ethnic cleansing in Freedonia," without their realizing that Freedonia was a fictional country.

This trick is later alluded to an episode of The West Wing when Congressman Matthew Santos, then hoping to become the Democratic nominee for president, shows his anger with modern political debates. The question of the "situation in Freedonia" was asked of a candidate in a Senate debate, and after the candidate said he would look into it, there was no allowed time for the other candidates to challenge him about the existence of the country.

The American game publisher FASA's name was originally supposed to stand for "Freedonian Aeronautics and Space Administration."

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedonia"

2006-08-18 13:07:39 · answer #2 · answered by battle-ax 6 · 0 2

He'll free Donia when he gets around to issuing pardons. And she won't have to bribe him to do it.

2006-08-18 13:25:28 · answer #3 · answered by SPLATT 7 · 0 0

is that close to Stupid Central?

2006-08-18 13:05:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

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