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