[Ciexyz]

Buy a bottle of good CA wine, drink it to the last drop, then paste a big label on it: "VIN" -- fill it with water and bingo! you're ready to rally.

[Ciexyz]

Question: Why did they build the chunnel under the English channel?

Answer: It makes it easier for the French government to flee to London.

[mountaineer]

There you go! A good symbolic gesture calls for symbolic French wine. Fill an empty bottle with swamp water and slap that "Vin Francais" label on it.