captaincranky
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You've heard of a "French Farce", haven't you?
Wouldn't you say my whole post qualified as one?
Well, other than the, "Happy Birthday", I meant that.
In the mind of a child of ten, the statement, "let them eat cake" could be an attempt to help. For someone that has never done without bread or cake, it offers a simplistic, but naive solution, to a problem not fully understood.