On the air, Ebert and Siskel bickered like an old married couple and openly needled each other.

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We sat there drinking lemonade, like an old married couple, watching the kids passing on bicycles, a squirrel scampering along a telephone wire.

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But there is a more generous interpretation: that France and Germany, like an old married couple, have many interests in common and can agree to disagree on the others.

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Which is quite surprising when you meet them because - apart from sounding the same, and finishing each others sentences like an old married couple - Dan and Scott don't look that similar at all.

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