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"Il est beau comme la retractilité des serres des oiseaux rapaces [...] et surtout, comme la rencontre fortuite sur une table de dissection d'une machine à coudre et d'un parapluie !" -- Lautréamont
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Some nuggets of joy from today's paper:
"Another wonderfully erudite man, a director of TV drama, held my hand across cyberspace as I finished the first
draft of a film script. A professional musician has pointed me toward wondrous new sounds. A graphic artist
sorts out my Jpeg pictures for me. Conversely, a couple of people who I think have promise as writers use me as
their sounding board. I'm agony aunt and teacher, as well as inveterate flirt and idle surfer. "
-- http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,634898,00.html
"Intellectual Paris loved the cat for its wildness, untamability and sheer animalism, but these were unpredictable qualities that panicked the bourgeoisie." http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,634909,00.html
I pour myself a cup of strong coffee. :-)
-- Jarkko Hietaniemi
It's not over yet (Score:1)
The dog vs cat war appears to still be running, at least in Paris. When Chirac was elected mayor of Paris (1983) he promptly took measures to make dog owners' lives easier: special street cleaning units (called "motocrottes", dungbikes if you will) were created to scour Paris to clean up after dogs. They were bikes transporting special equipment consisting of a kind of vacuum cleaner that sprayed refrigerating liquid over dogshit and swallowed them.
This policy continued throughout his two mandates
-- Robin Berjon [berjon.com]
Re:It's not over yet (Score:2)
I would never let my dogs crap on the street and leave it there. I think the dog feaces was probably the worst thing for us about Paris (I mostly love Paris apart from that), and I'm really glad to see efforts are being made to stop it.