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Now, it has come to... I think this is more than that. This is the... This changes everything. Maybe. It has come to our attention that we may have to reconsider our opinion of the French, which up until now has been based on what? Their cars. Their sense of ergonomics. They're wack wacko engineering. Yeah. Foreign policy.

But now we have to reconsider the French based on, you ready for this?

Their work habits.

My brother has an article.

Well, this was in Business Week, but about 500 people emailed it to me.

Of course.

Because evidently, the French government has been fining people for working too many hours.

I mean, big fines, $5,000, $15,000 because the law is you can't work more than 35 hours a week.

And these guys are sneaking in late at night to put in extra hours, the theory of course being that if they put in

extra hours, then you won't need someone else to do the work.

If everyone's working overtime and not getting paid for it, it takes a job away from

somebody else.

So they're telling people, you're working too hard.

Wow.

The government is telling you.

This changes.

This changes everything.

We have a new found respect and admiration for the French.

I mean, we had thought, in all honesty, that they were really a bunch of jerks.

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