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French Sunday!

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( read the small print!) Today is Sunday 22nd April 2007, and things are slowly getting started. The first Voters, half of them with brains mashed from the Saturday evening out, and on their way back from the various night clubs, pass quickly through the Voting Offices at 8am, so as to be undisturbed for the rest of the Sunday "sleep-off", and the other half (the pensioners and older people) who can't sleep longer than 4-5 hours a night anyway, pass through, and then wonder what to do for the rest of this Sunday! French Saturday night occupations! In fact, various other "enterprises" profit more than others on days like these! At 7.30am, the Institution of the Eglise profit from the situation, knowing that the elderly ladies who frequent the Sunday mess will be accompanied (for a change) maybe by their husbands, effectively doubling the congregation, and after the mess, everyone will trudge to their various polling stations, vote and "Hubbie" will take...