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Article: What is the difference between Frenchmen and toast? You can make soldiers out of toast; As the BBC bans jokes about the French, the Mail offers its own selection.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- February 25, 2003
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FRANCE has become a laughing stock following President Chirac's gladhanding of the tyrant Robert Mugabe, and his country's stance over Saddam Hussein. But when Ned Sherrin tried to make some anti-French jokes on his Radio Four show Loose Ends he found that they had been censored.Yet, with typical double standards, his anti-English gags were allowed. Here, in the interest of balance - and without intending to upset our entente cordiale with our neighbours - the Mail offers a sample of anti-French jokes, including those which hit the cutting room floor. . .
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