Tuesday, July 05, 2005

La Vache Folle Franco-Anglo relations have been sabotaged (a French word) by the president of France, according to the Times of London: The French daily Liberation reported yesterday that M Chirac, unaware that he could be overheard by a small group of journalists, made a string of anti-British jokes while chatting to President Vladimir Putin and Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad on Monday. First he quipped that Britain's only contribution to European agriculture had been mad cow disease. Then he added: "You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. After Finland, it is the country with the worst cooking." It's manifestly unfair to make such accusations when the British have also contributed crop circles to European agriculture. And Putin has no right to scoff at the British either, since his nation's sole contribution to European agriculture has been growing grain for vodka production. 1:19:31 PM