Today's France Story: Better Than All The Rest

I got back from France last Saturday. Unless something really interesting happens to me, I plan on updating this every day I'm home with something that happened while I was there, because that way I can create the illusion of frequent updates without having to find something interesting to write about.

Now, in France, shortly before the TV packed in, we caught a sublime French game show called Interville. Now, Interville was sort of like It's A Knockout, or Jeux Sans Frontier, only crazier (insofar as that's possible). The British version, Simply The Best, started the day I came home, in fact, so if you live over here you can catch that. But it won't be as good.

Now, whenever the logo came up in Interville, there was an animated bull running around. We weren't sure why. But then the last round came, and the contestants walked into a bullring. "Ah," I said, "That's why the logo's a bull. They're in a bullring!"

Close, but no cigar.

The real reason wasn't that the contestants were in a bullring. The real reason was that the contestants were in a bullring with a live bull, playing a game as silly ever before. And that is why Simply The Best simply isn't: it doesn't have a bull. We never get bulls over here. It's simply not fair.