What are they Protesting?

As the protests in France enter their second week, TDS is pleased to offer its reader an inside glimpse of what, exactly, the righteous and wholly consequential French are in such high dudgeon about...

Jean-Pierre d'Ooohlala, an office manager from Lyons, reveals that "copy toner is just too darn expensive. Obviously, the only way to remedy this is to tinker with the free market. Of course, the end result will be that it will cost eleven billion dollars to buy a French-made truck in which to deliver the copy toner that has been discounted by eight cents, but, by golly, copy toner is just too darn expensive. So, as you can see, I'm taking the long view here."

Marie Antoinette Mais-Avec-la-Tete, a physicist in Paris, said: "Has anybody seen the atomic weight of hafnium? It's patently absurd. Until Chirac does something about it, I for one won't be touching even one mole of hafnium for research purposes (although I might still be persuaded to put on my hafnium drawers and dance the Macarena if I have too much barium cocktail at the office party this weekend, just like last year, sacre bleu)."

Robert Guilliame Et-Son-Chien, a kindergarterner from Cherbourg, told TDS that, "I cannot believe that we must nap for one hour each day. It is inhumane. Even the Iraqis get to nap for longer than that. Maybe the Americans could invade OUR country and give us longer breaks." (Robert's mother then quickly hushed the child up and begged this TDS reporter not to 'invite' the Americans to invade. Sure, lady, I'll be happy not to NOT publish your simpering words!)

Edouard du Je-suis-un-idiot, a grocer in Bordeaux, said that he wouldn't sell any more groces until the truckers who delivered his groces stopped striking. The truckers, by the way, are striking until the grocers start paying more for the delivery of all the groce. Good idea.

And, finally, Elanor Motley-crue-est-tres-bon-ne-c'est-pas, a housewife in Brittany, confided in TDS that she would not provide any nourishment to her husband or her children unless they started showing her "un peut respect, comme disait Aretha Franklin".

And that's the word from the front, folks. This TDS reporter wishes the French all the best in their heroic efforts to screw up a pretty good economy with moron leftwingedness. Just look at all the success Mao, Stalin, Uncle Ho, Fidel, and Che had!