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| French protest new year's arrival |
| 2007-01-01 |
| Satire maybe. But then again being French, who knows? SOME 600 people gathered in the western French city of Nantes to protest the new year's arrival today Lashed by rain, the organisers said even the weather was against 2007, as they milled about under banners reading "No to 2007!" and "Now is better!" "The world will come to understand that it must stop this mad course towards the future and we demand the governments of the world and the United Nations declare a moratorium to stop this December 31 the future," said one of the organisers. The tension mounted as the minutes ticked away, but the arrival of midnight and 2007 did nothing to dampen their enthusiasm as they began to chant "No to 2008!". Organisers vowed to resist pressure from watchmakers and calendar printers to hold the event for a third time on December 31, 2007, on the Champs-Elysees in Paris. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #3 I'm sure they blamed Bush. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2007-01-01 14:51 |
| #2 As Mark Twain put it, "Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it". |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2007-01-01 12:03 |
| #1 2007: Why does it hate us? |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-01-01 11:44 |