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In which the French Revolution nearly bombed...
Two hundred odd years to the day, a bunch of layabouts, arrack-sodden beggars, tenants in arrears, students and freemasons decided to teach the Frog establishment what´s what and stormed Paris´ biggest prison. Because we all know that bigger is better and when you are clueless, size is all that matters. Right? The statistics of the immortal action:
Number of people who stormed the Bastille: 1000+
Number of defenders in the Bastille: 35
Assaulters killed: 98
Defenders killed: 1
Actual prisoners in the Bastille on that day: 7 (One pervert, two madmen (all three sent to prison by their own families) and four fake coiners.)
Groovy.
Luckily, France survived it. As it survived Le Petit Cabrón. And Vichy. And Le Pen. And Brigitte Bardot.
So, with a laughing and a crying eye, here be a rendition of the glorious mess of 14/7 as seen by France´s loved-hated neighbours, with our usual sewer-mouthed flair (no need to translate - you´ll understand the original just fine.)
EL BARON DE BIDÉ
(Music and lyrics: La Trinca)
En el Siglo XVIII en París hizo furor
el Barón de Bidet, famosísimo inventor.
El Barón especulaba con la posibilidad
de tomar baños de asiento sin perder la dignidad.
En la fuentes de Versalles contempló con estupor
a unos patos arrimar el culo a un surtidor.
Y exclamó el señor "Mesié": ¡Eureka! Je le encontré
Ohlalá! Oh mondié!
je feré une filigrane
que será una palangane
con el chorro incorporé!
Con la excusa del diseño el Barón (el muy truhán)
se pegaba el gran filete con Madame de Chateaubriand.
La eficacia del invento alcanzó tal dimensión
que en la corte del gabacho descendió la polución.
Insaciable el populacho exigía su bidé
para poderse lavar sentado y no de pie.
Y salieron en cuadrilla y tomaron la Bastilla
¿Quesquesé ce merdé??? - preguntaba la nobleza -
la revolución francesa, ¿Quesque vous avez pensé?
Se instauró le egalité, liberté y fraternité
y en París no quedó ni un trasero sin bidé.
Y así gracias a Danton, a Marat y a Robespierre
las madamas de la Francia, se lavan la "pomme de terre"
Y el Barón por este invento las naciones honrarán
como al conde de Foi-gras y al Marqués de Croissant.
Y este es el relato exacto del Barón y su artefacto.
Y jamás hallarás sensación más refrescante
por detrás y por delante, por delante y por detrás.
July 16 2005, 15:24:27 UTC 6 years ago
is your intray overflowing? I had sent you a short note that included all my POB research links and that has just be thrown back at me with
SMTP error from remote mailer after end of data:
host smtp.networld.at [193.154.151.52]: 451 4.7.1 Please try again later: retry timeout exceeded
And now I hope you have at least received my short mail of yesterday.
A simple "yes" or "No" will suffice.
Take care
July 17 2005, 08:55:34 UTC 6 years ago
*flaps off to entertain kin from abroad, looking wistfully at e-list and printout both* Take care!!
July 17 2005, 10:04:42 UTC 6 years ago
DO NOT HURRY. DO NOT FEEL OBLIGED TO ANSWER FAST. I CAN WAIT UNTIL RL SORTED ITSELF OUT.
Hope you are well
July 18 2005, 09:22:10 UTC 6 years ago