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Trevor @ Tuesday October 16th 2007 20:50

Ooh, wouldn’t one like to be on the committee of geologists and historians advising which villages (French only, of course: what else is the EU about?) get to be added to the list of champagne producers! Although you’ve got to be slightly crazy to drink some of the donkey piss turned out by the French, when the Catalans and English produce often superior piss for half the price.


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