[I understand the prototype for the first headlamp used the elastic from a brassiere. How very French! ]

It may well be so ....and this doesn't prove French are frivolous, but that women are the future of mankind.

Women are the fuel for men's motors ....
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Were it not for women, I guess men would have stop being creative, once they had (chronologically) invented beer, football games and finally TV !!! <img src="images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Alain