Osler's Razor

First she loses her hat, and then she loses her inhibitions. I'm moving to France.

So which Isabelle is sexier? I vote for uptight, be-hatted Isabelle.
 

You missed the important fourth segment, where Isabelle really turns the corner.
 

OK...first, I nominate Isabelle to be a speaker for Coffee Mom's...

Secondly...I think she's pretty sexy all the way around.....but....I'd like to see the 'turn the corner' interview/

But....my question..b/c I know a little French...are these interviews really any different?!? Or is my French a little off...
 

I don't know about you people but I vote for the sexy "eleveur" (in French even the word for cattle rancher sounds chichi) in the first video. Anyway it looks like this Isabelle is doing a good job pushing grass fed beef with a side of questionable powder diet. What could be more reassuring than a sexy investigator into the workings of bovine nutrition, given the massive amounts of steak tartare the French are known to consume.
 

Osler, where are you? Are you in Waco? Is that what brought on the cow thing?
 

She's wearing a modern sac de couchage. They're very big in France this time of year.

And this gives the term "powder diet" a whole new meaning!
 

Anon 7:07- I am in Edina, but will be in Waco soon! There will be no cow-based activities for me there, though.
 

I'd say because of the intensification of Spring reveries,the first hot and torrid intimation of Summer,a certain professor may be feeling more than a soupcon of friskiness. Or he's a little worried about his mother in France.Will she be visiting a cattle farm? And I am wondering how exactly he came upon these enchanting videos? I am intrigued and strangely obsessed with Isabelle's chapeau. Perhaps her hair is a little mussed up in the second video because that Frenchman ripped it off on his way to better things. Veronique like all cutting edge fashion forward French women has made a gown from her sleeping bag. It was a faux pas. In the third video...two words...cow lips as we have never seen them before and for which,many American women would kill. Created possibly by that amazing gritty powder. No straws except hay in the video,so I think it is powdered milk. Ooh la la! I wonder if Isabelle has a blog? "Under Isabelle's Chapeau" or "Veronique Does Fashion." Or "Sexy Boeuf"????
 

For those of us who don't speak French, are these people talking about cows? Why is Isabelle wearing heels? Is that really what France looks like?
 

LTM, do you know the California "happy cows" commercial? This would be the french version of it...only a little longer and a lot more elaborate.
 

Is Isabelle happy for the same reason as the cows?
 

Just for fun (and probably fun for only moi) I decided to look up the meaning of "Bres" in French. No French translation,alas. However,Bres,is the Irish-Celtic god of fertility and agriculture. Isabelle,your little ruse is over. Isabelle....is Irish,not French.She may well be the goddess of fertility and agriculture masquerading as a French journalist. Nice try. The men sized you up right away.
 

As an American "journaliste," I have done my research and can definitely state that the woman in the second ad is wearing the French version of a "Slanket" (pronounced slawn-KAY). France looks pretty nice -- it's already in the mid-90s in San Antonio. As for the cows, I thought all cows looked pretty much the same until we got to Scotland. They're long-haired, big-horned, stock, stocky and mean-looking. We didn't mess with them (you know, the usual midnight cow-tipping). Bob
 

One more thing--there was a Guy de Bres in the 16th century who was a Calvinist and martyred. So,Isabel's lips may say,"yes yes," but she really just wants to discuss predestination with you.
 

And I suggest not messing with the ultra-seductive Veronique,whose first name means "victory bringer," and last name means
"priest." She does look rather priestly in her sac de couchage,as Micah correctly identifies it. Or "slanket" as Bob claims.
 

Fertility and agriculture-- spring is here! Alleluia!
 

more disconcerting than any potential french journalistic missteps is how much time you've spent, osler, watching "a tout le monde" or whatever that was.
regardless, i dismiss any worries about whether or not it's real journalism with a "meh, it's broadcast journalism," where accountability is simply not an issue.
 

Dear all,
I figured it out, the sexy journaliste is the daughter of a real journaliste: Pierrette Bres and what the prof. showed us today is not broadcast news. It is an infomercial for the French equivalent of Federal Meat Inspection, Centre D’Information de Viande. Still wonder, how did you come across such an intriguing topic?
 

i liked it better when it was real french journalism (that i couldn't understand, anyway).
 

Ok, Marta, that's just silly. Why would meat inspectors need to advertise? And why use Isabelle Bres, who doesn't seem to have the right shoes for meat inspection?
 

The CIV is not advertising, they are informing the populace on the safety of their steak tartare and to make sure they tune in and pay attention, they have Isabelle Bres play journaliste in various stages of "deshabille" as you call it. And Woody, don't be disappointed, real french journalism isn't much different than this, in fact it is pretty much interchangeable and if they had an empty news slot Isabelle's shoes would fit right in.
 

PS Don't get me wrong, I am not belittling this cow food investigation, especially knowing that pretty much everybody in France, at some point or another, eats raw cow meat.
 

God I hate the French.
 

RRL, how can you say that after watching the deshabille of Isabelle Bres?
 

Steak Tartare - yum!
 

Good Steak Tartare at Cave Vin on 56th and Xerxes. I rarely eat it. Haven't been there for a while,wonderful food.
 

Isabelle is dressed like a wannabe Pickles. You sure don't see Pickles hanging out with a bunch of cows... she's trying to destroy the world, instead.