June 13, 2005

THANKS FOR THE NYLONS, FRITZ (via Jim Yates):

Poll: 38 Percent Of French Men Wish They Could Be Pregnant (AP, June 12, 2005)

Forget sympathy pains -- nearly 40 percent of French men said they want to go through the real thing.

According to a poll published in the current issue of Children's Magazine, 38 percent of French men questioned said they wish they could be pregnant instead of their wives.


The remarkable number is that 76% of the French men who wish they were pregnant said that they'd want the fathers to be German soldiers.

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 13, 2005 11:47 AM
Comments

Considering what their birthrate looks like these days, it seems a large number of them have forgotten how the whole "pregnant" thing works.

Posted by: Mike Morley at June 13, 2005 2:01 PM

Morte la difference!

Posted by: at June 13, 2005 2:03 PM

Any man who would like to be pregnant is seriously deranged.

Posted by: AWW at June 13, 2005 2:20 PM

But don't forget how scheming the French can be. Remember all those maternity classes where we had to show our empathy by joining in the breathing and muscle toning exercises and learning far more about the female anatomy than we ever wanted to know? Maybe this is just Jacques' way of letting Marie know she should be careful what she wishes for.

Posted by: Peter B at June 13, 2005 2:23 PM

It's Jacques way of staying home and not having to work...(I know, I know raising a kid ain't easy).

Posted by: Bartman at June 13, 2005 3:17 PM

Not that surprising.

Posted by: Robert Schwartz at June 13, 2005 3:59 PM

This is like that National Lampoon cartoon about the frog legs: "That's not funny, that's sick!" It gives new meaning to that T-shirt, "F the French."

Posted by: Lou Gots at June 13, 2005 8:00 PM

This is like that National Lampoon cartoon about the frog legs: "That's not funny, that's sick!" It gives new meaning to that T-shirt, "F the French."

Posted by: Lou Gots at June 13, 2005 8:00 PM

I'm no fan of the French these days, but I think the real lesson here is that they take polls even less seriously than we do.

My wife works in a field where surveys are frequently taken and there was once a question that was something like "If you use marijuana, how old were you when you first tried it?" Something like 15% checked the box that indicated "5 or under," or some ridiculous thing like that.

Posted by: Tom at June 14, 2005 12:17 PM
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