Because I Was Bored

I sent Jacques Chirac a picture of me brandishing a hammer, and he surrendered all of France to me. I think I’ll sell it on eBay. What should be the reserve?

27 Comments

  1. I’d say make the reserve a bottle of rare wine. American wine, no less. Say…
    Araujo 1994 Cabernet Sauvignon.
    I think the idea of selling Fwance for a bottle of American wine is a jolly good one.

  2. I’ll tell you what. I’ll take France off of your hands and you won’t have to pay me anything!
    I plan on turning all of France into my prison camp.Erect a giant wall all around France to contain the stench and those nasty liberals, and then dump all prisoners there.
    I think that would be a major deterent for most criminals. Who wants to live out the remainder of their days with the French.

  3. Its very simple. First place soap dispensers in all public places, and mandate daily bathing. Then as all the French begin migrating away you get all of your friends, and move them in. Now you demand from the UN the same involvement in their affairs that the French has always had. Once the population is on average no longer French you apply for statehood in the U.S. When that is granted you use the precident of a US State having its own seat on the UN to get all of the other states UN seats. Then with the all the votes the US now has you declare all members of the UN to be vassle nations under the United States of Earth.

  4. Oh, unfirst. Like it’s even possible to talk about the French without mentioning surrendering, cheese, wine, or body odor. French history itself is like a joke you’ve heard before. Please. Show some understanding of international relations, man.

  5. Slapout and Ian have the right idea, but they don’t go far enough. This is a hostile takeover. In such situations the whole is, almost by definition, less than the sum of its parts. Sell the whole thing piecemeal.
    Of course you’ll want to sell off the Eiffel tower, the Champs-Elyesse and any artistic and historical treasures you might find seperately; but don’t let the big things cause you to miss other opportunities. You could sell the copper wiring from their houses and the stonework from their chateaus. Then you could sell the rest of their infrastructure piecemeal.

  6. Everyone is off the mark here. You have an opportunity to make some real money here. Set it at 1 billion but make sure you send a link for the auction to John Kerry. I’ll bet he can hit his wife up for the money. You have to have a couple of conditions though, he has to move there and take Ted Kennedy, the Clintons and most of Hollywood with him.

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