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Re:Freezing cold, no Internet, boring: it's a French web 2.0... by prakash on Thursday December 11, 2008 @06:21AM (#394196)
Absolutely fantastic! For a moment there, I though this article was actually a skit on A bit of Fry & Laurie.

This quote specifically: And even more satisfying than all of that is the fact that the idea of a huge state-sponsored piss-up is such an anathema to Americans that there's no way they can outdo us

Re:Freezing cold, no Internet, boring: it's a French web 2.0... by iron_ball on Thursday December 11, 2008 @11:08AM (#394386)
Our drunken bouts are all the result of good hard-working private industry. The government will get our rye whiskey when they pump it from our cold dead stomachs!