At 13:18 1998-08-18 -0500, Mike wrote:
>  Was it a French dictator, who when asked about the masses replied, "Let
>them eat cake.".

It was Marie Antoinette who, when she heard that people did not have bread
for the day, said: "cant they eat cakes instead".
Actually I think this was when the Parisians where beseiged and had to
eat rats. So they in fact had a better alternative :-)

- Hans