[SOC] Anyone offended over there ?

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<< Ian said :
*The French lost the battle with the Australians as to who could produce the 
more superior wine.
>>

Oh Boy ... Ian, you know me well enough to be sure that this one, as we say 
here, "touches one without making move the 2nd one". [Copyright Tonton Jacques. 
See below]
As long as I keep my OJ concession, I am the happiest man of the world.

So, as for the F saying, it has been introduced by Jacques Chirac himself some 
(10?)  years ago and is now widely used when you want to say that you do not 
care abt something, that some event does not have any importance to you.
Of course, the "one" to which he was referring to was his ball(s).

If you want some other Chirac's good words, pse refer to : 
http://www.zetud.net/news/actualite/politique/chirac2002_perles.php3

Sri, Froggy speaking.

Cf. also : http://www.chez.com/jacqueschirac/Citation.htm

and, last but not least : http://www.elysee.org/ which is NOT the official site 
of the Elys�e, of course ! The real one is http://www.elysee.fr/
(http://www.elysee.fr/ang/index.shtm for an English version).

72!
Claude