May 13, 2008
Pave: A Place To Go To™ VI
Le jour 364 de Sarko
Everyone wants to visit France. The French tell us so. They know what you may not, that few can resist the lures of unwanted thrills, underwhelming sights, overrated hotels, overpriced delicacies, excise taxes, disdain for customers (and here), contempt for tourists (and here), and boorish bosslings at every level of service. In short, the irresistible French experience.
And for many the French experience begins with Paris.
THIRD WORLD VACATION
At First World Prices
[Rémy is a Disney copyrighted creation and
unofficial guide to the poubelles and sewers of Paris]
FRENCH CAPITAL PARIS BEGINS RAT-CATCHING CAMPAIGN
April 30, 2008 (enjoyfrance.com) - France’s capital Paris has begun its yearly campaign to get rid of rats, with which the city despite its romantic appeal is infested.It is reported that there are four times as many rats as people living there, and this means a figure of possibly as many as eight million of the rodents.
... The Paris council has a team of ten staff whose work is to keep the numbers of rats, mice and pigeons down.
UN AUTRE NOUVEAU PANNEAU DE SIGNALISATION
Bon jour ! Bubonic Vectors Ahead
A little arithmetic:
- 8M rats ÷ 10 staffers = 800,000 rats/staffer
- The extermination campaign runs May through June, 61 days - (9 weekends = 18 days) - (3 holidays = Ascension/Fête du Travail, May 1; Victoire 1945, May 8; Lundi de Pentecôte, May12) = 40 working days
- 40 working days × 7 working hours per working day = 280 hours
- 280 working hours × 10 staffers = 2,800 hours
- 8M rats ÷ 2,800 working hours = 2,857 rats exterminated per hour or a mere 293 per staffer per hour or less than 5 per staffer per minute, less than roasting the haunch of a pup rat every second.
As Molloy might surmise, why, there are hardly any rats to do in at all. We should have never mentioned it. Extraordinary how a little arithmetic, applied with advantage, scotches all the alarm.
Still undecided about vacationing in France? See here, here, here, here, here and here.
PFFT (What is this?): Commune with Nature in romantic Paris 3½ | Rayonnement français 0
Posted by Damian at May 13, 2008 04:30 AMI can remember seeing some of those incredibly large, fat pests in the streets: 1ft long tail included.
I'm wondering: this campaign, assuming it actually works at least a little, might run many people out of business! What's going to happen to the dead rats selling shops?
Bwa ha ha !!!
And of course .... Rats do not exist in USA !
You have the choice, here, and " JUST " in Google New York City :
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rats+in+new+york&search_type=
Damien and Carine ... you are definitely SO STUPID !!! :)
THANKS SO MUCH FOR DIVERTING THE REST OF THE WORLD !!! :)
Posted by: FrogEater at May 13, 2008 10:52 PMNice Yankee Rats videos, here :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdVLJhWhnyQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chYZ0Ky2JQM
Blob and Frogeater, both from the same IP and we assume one and the same person with a compelling need to hide away behind dopey names, why? Is B/F some important French person? A person of distinction? All the evidence suggests B/F is just another franchouille, who, like the monkey self-fascinated with flinging his poo, thinks himself oh-so-clever.
Typical of a franchouille, B/F argues a point we have not advanced. The post is not claiming only Paris has rats. We only pass on the report of the Paris infestation from a source brightly named, enjoyfrance.com.
We can only imagine B/F's daily consternation watching the French evening news, where -- as he strains at here -- every report on troubled France vexes him to search out somewhere else more troubled than France.
The only one being "diverted" here is B/F. He presents a link to a Google search (patiently waiting on the génie gauloise to finish up Quaero) as his damning rebuttal. That's as much argument as B/F can manage.
Poor B/F, spends his time at Pave twisting his panties in a knot, dividing his little self into a company of phoney selves, strains himself in rebuttal, and finally, his wit spent, unleases his withering Parthian shaft:
"... you are definitely SO STUPID !!! :)"
ALL CAPS. Three exclamations! And the emoticon. Oh, my, yes, that clinches it. We are savaged. [Pause.]
What a donkey.
DGB
Posted by: Damian at May 14, 2008 06:58 AMBwa ha ha !!! :)
CHICAGO SURRENDERS TO THE FRENCHIES !!!
http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/thestew/2008/05/foie-gras-ban-l.html
Who are you today, B/F? Ah, today you are the Fox. Here to crow about foie gras in Chicago. A Fox that crows.
How empty your victory, how feeble your crowing. Had you done your homework you would know that Pave has already addressed the issue here and here ridiculing the ban, which rather spoils your gloat.
Instead of the clever Fox, a more appropriate nom-de-Web would be Donkey.
DGB
Posted by: Damian at May 15, 2008 02:28 PM
