Declan Murphy wrote:
> On Jun 29, 11:31 am, "Marvel" <g...@justfres.com> wrote:
>> "Kevin Wayne Williams" <kww.niho...@verizon.nut> wrote in messagenews:muqdnTT1z_VDcPvVnZ2dnUVZ8t7inZ2d@supernews.com...
>>
>>> CL wrote:
>>>> BTW, you DO KNOW that Paris is a stinking shithole in the heat of Summer,
>>>> yes?  Something to do with the fact that everyone's back yard was a
>>>> latrine for 1,800 years before they got plumbing and Ille de France is in
>>>> some sort of geological situation like a huge rock soup bowl where
>>>> everything that has ever died and fallen in the goop since the beginning
>>>> of time has been preserved and rots slowly.
>>> If you've never heard Zappa's "In France", off of "Them or Us", you owe it
>>> to yourself to find a copy ...
>>> "the foods not so shabby, but they piss in the street
>>> They've got these diseases that you've never seen
>>> Down in France ..."
>>> KWW
>> I had never seen anybody pissing on the side of the road or off a sidewalk
>> with people walking by until I went to Japan.
> 
> French expats perhaps?

Ah, so the guy who owns the field down the road must be French.  Around 
the corner from us is a field that never gets planted and is always 
bare.  It is owned by some truly ancient guy who comes out in his little 
K-pickup once a week and walks around spraying weed poison or something 
else unpleasant on it to keep the earth completely bare and dusty.  He's 
got this little ritual where he drives up to the small monoki he's built 
in one corner, walks to the center of the open field and takes a piss, 
fills up his poison sprayer and walks up and down spraying foul smelling 
stuff for a couple of hours, then stands next to his truck and pisses on 
the field again before getting in and driving off.  One of the 
neighbors, who used to be an engineer for NTT, pointed it out to me as 
he couldn't figure out the meaning of the ritual, either.

> I must admit to the occasional streetside slash. Splash and noise can
> be a problem, but planter boxes and flower beds are useful.

And let's give low shrub fences their due, too.  Nothing like a whizz 
between the branches of a hedge to reduce noise and spotting of your 
shoes.

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CL