You know, Alain, the more these Yanks trash your country, the more respect and admiration I seem to develop for it. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Maybe Bic lighters aren't the best in the world, but if I'm not mistaken, they invented the whole "cheap, disposable lighter" concept, so all these "other" options that Randjack cites wouldn't exist if it weren't for the French. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

And for all the talk about alternative sources of flame, I still believe that the 99 cent disposable lighter has probably saved more lives than all the mag-flint blocks ever sold. <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />