How France is different from America.
Sometimes relations between the two countries are warm, sometimes frosty. But whichever way the wind blows, there's a 3,650-mile gulf between them. To wit:
France = Disgruntled transportation workers
America = Disgruntled writers
France = Obsessed with preserving the French language
America = Obsessed with Britney Spears
France = Simone Signoret
America = Joan Rivers
France = 35-hour work week and eight weeks vacation
America = Four 3-day weekends and Thanksgiving
France = When luxury good conglomerate LVMH closes La Samaritaine department store for renovations in 2005, it agrees to pay employees until it reopens -- in 2011.
America = When the U.S. Air Force has a tanker refueler contract worth $35 billion and 25,000 jobs, they award it to French-owned Airbus
France = Mayor of Paris who is openly gay
America = Senator from Idaho who is tormented by a wide stance
France = President who marries super-model, pop-star, heiress who used to date Mick Jagger and is easily "bored by monogamy"
America = President who marries Methodist elementary school librarian, finds the Lord, and quits drinking