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Date Posted: 21:00:25 03/12/03 Wed
Author: SurveyGuy
Author Host/IP: maxtnt04-159.phlpa.fast.net / 209.92.96.159
Subject: So ya wanna have a boycott, eh? You'll need a list ...

http://newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/3/11/144347
Tuesday, March 11, 2003
French Products and Companies to Boycott

Dozens of readers have written in asking for a list of French companies products to boycott. After all, some are
well known, but many are not. Here goes.

The Web site FrogWienie targets those "Smelly Surrender Monkeys." It asks: "Are you sick and tired of the crying,
whining FrogWienies? We bail them out every time they are in trouble and what do they do?"

It lists:
� Bic (razors, pens and lighters)
� Club Med (vacations)
� Yoplait yogurt
� Vivendi and its subsidiary Universal Studios (music, movies and amusement parks)
� Christian Dior
� Michelin (tires and auto parts)
� Marie Claire
� Air Liquide
� Veritas Group
� M�phisto (shoes and clothes)
� Moet (champagne)
� Perrier (water; and who can forget that benzene scandal?)
� Evian (which we found out is owned by huge food company Danone, which boasts of being No. 1 in water, No. 1 in fresh dairy products and No. 2 in cereal biscuits and snack crackers; brands include Aqua,
� Wahaha and Volvic waters, Dannon yogurt and LU biscuits and crackers)
� Biotherm (cosmetics)
� DKNY - LVMH acquired 100 percent of Gabrielle Studio Inc., the privately owned licenser of Donna Karan trademarks.
� Jacobs Creek
� Givenchy
� Allegra (allergy medication, produced by the Strasbourg company Aventis Pharmaceuticals
� Pierre Cardin
� International Herald Tribune
� Air France
� Peugeot (wee automobiles)
� Alcatel
� Renault (automobiles - "I used that word loosely," says FrogWeeneie)
� Bollinger (champagne)
� Louis Vuitton
� Hennessy
� L'Oreal (health and beauty products)
� Lancome

Also:

� Motel 6 and Red Roof Inns are owned by Accor Hotels.

And don't forget to avoid the Total and Fina gas stations owned by the oil-greedy Frenchies.

P.S.: Thanks to GOP lawmakers, cafeterias in the U.S. House of Representatives will today start offering "freedom
fries" instead of you know what.

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[> Are people going to boycott "French Kissing"? -- William, 11:10:39 03/13/03 Thu (cache-dq01.proxy.aol.com/205.188.209.133)

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[> [> I heard that it is now called "Freedom Kissing." -- SG, 15:48:08 03/13/03 Thu (pcp01422551pcs.lndsd201.pa.comcast.net/68.81.153.197)

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[> Jacob's Creek Wines are Australian; perhaps they are owned by the French through a 'shell' company? Seagrams and Sofitel are majority if not wholly owned by French. -- JL, 20:52:21 03/13/03 Thu (pcp01376707pcs.selrsv01.pa.comcast.net/68.80.69.241)

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[> [> Actually, I did hear from someone who worked at a US affiliate of Perrier that they are Swiss owned. Their h2O still sux , but just thought I'd mention that. -- JL, 21:40:56 03/13/03 Thu (pcp01376707pcs.selrsv01.pa.comcast.net/68.80.69.241)

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[> I think the only one we'd miss is Jacob's Creek -- we especially like their Shiraz-Cabernet Sauvignon blend. :( But none of the other cross my radar anyway. BTW: did you know that Evian backwards spells "naive"? -- Spock, 11:14:31 03/14/03 Fri (user-vc8fm1s.biz.mindspring.com/216.135.216.60)

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[> [> Try Wyndam Estates Shiraz (Bin 555) for a very nice inexpensive wine from Australia. Yes, I knew about Evian, but others mnight not have. -- SurveyGuy (wondering who can remember these lists anyway), 19:17:34 03/18/03 Tue (maxtnt05-255.phlpa.fast.net/209.92.100.1)

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