Asagidaki maddeler 12 yildir Paris'de yasayan Ingiliz Stephen Clarke'in 2006 yilinda yayinladigi kitabindan alintidir yani benim düsüncelerimi yansitmamaktadir.

Things that the French are right about:

• An adulterous politician is probably no more corrupt than a monogamous one.
• Just because a man compliments a woman, it doesn't mean that he is planning to rape her.
• Getting out of Vietnam in 1954 was a pretty good idea.
• Invading Iraq was not such a good idea.
• If a country's schoolkids are taught mathematics to good level, its technology industries will never lack qualified engineers.
• Children do not die if they stop eating French fries for a week.
• Spa holidays should be available as state-subsidized medical treatment.
• If you have a regular office job, there is no point working on Friday afternoons.
• Putting foreign words on menus does not make the food taste better.
• If you invest money in railways, they are more efficient.
• All you need in salad dressing is olive oil; vinegar, mustard and salt. Anything else is window dressing, not salad dressing.
• If the French ignore a European law , no one will be able to force them to obey it.

Things that the French are wrong about:

(though it is not wise to tell them so)

• The more you boast about sex, the better you are at it.
• Everyone just adores passive smoking.
• Pétanque is a sport.
• Motorway bridges are so beautiful that they must be celebrated on picture postcards.
• The Earth does not revolve around the Sun - it revolves around Paris.
• Benny Hill represents  the cutting edge of British comedy.
• The words to a song are so important that you don't need a tune.
• Supertramp are ( or were ever) hip.
• If you push in front of someone in a queue, they will respect you more.
• All films should be about director's love life. (This is why they love Woody Allen so much.)
• It is fun to eat calf's brain and pig's anus.
• Vegetarians cannot have sex.
• Many customers do not actually want to be served.
• Nuclear power is totally unpolluting.
• Johnny Hallyday is world-famous (he's an aging rocker, by the way).
• Serge Gainsbourg was sexy. (He was a chain-smoking drunk, toad-faced physical wreck. Their best-ever songwriter, though.)
• The louder you laugh at your own joke, the funnuer it is.
• France invented French fries. (The whole of the rest of the world accepts that it was either the Belgians or the British.)
• A word does not exist unless it's in the dictionary.
• When there is fog on the motorway, it is safest to drive as fast as you can and get out of the low-visibility zone as quickly as possible.
• Red traffic lights do not always know best about the need to stop.
• Designated flood zones do not flood and are therefore safe to build on.
• You can cure anything by inserting the relevant medicine up your back passage.
• All Americans care enough about France to know where it is on a map of the world.
• All British people are polite.

Quoted from the book of British writer Stephen Clarke.