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Brilliant, Frank! Given the use of schadenfreude it's clear you're getting into broadsheet territory, though. I suggest:

...prophets of doom, naysayers and other continentals indulging in that old Jerry insult SHADENFREUDE because we gave them our gas so cheap. That's the thanks you get for trying to help people like the French, as we Brits learned at Dunkirk. For years...
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Jan 7th, 2008 at 03:18:32 PM EST
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Very good additions. Now, French ==> FROGS and Germans ==> JERRIES throughout makes it even better!
by someone (s0me1smail(a)gmail(d)com) on Mon Jan 7th, 2008 at 04:00:47 PM EST
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I was going for subtlety myself, no need to mention the war old chap ... just a faint suggestion of those ungrateful frogs and Nazi Germans  .. without lowering the tone too much...its not the British way, you know - certainly not the FT - although it is going rather tabloidy of late..

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Mon Jan 7th, 2008 at 08:00:59 PM EST
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its not the British way

You don't read the Sun? :-(

(No, don't bother... ;))

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Jan 8th, 2008 at 01:29:20 AM EST
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