The 2CV is a fun little car. Cute in a way. But I wouldn't want one.

I just discovered a new reason to hate the French.

They ruined the perfectly good cover art on an amazing book.

Would you buy this book? Look at that cover. It's hideous.
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/22...CLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

Maybe the French would. Their tastes are different.

It's not really science fiction either, is it? More historical fiction, I'd say.

Mmm... four rotor Enigma machine on the cover. As a former Intelligence guy, I'd at least pick it up and see how the thing reads. As a former intel guy, I recommend the book Blind Man's Bluff as worthy of attention from the spy-curious.

Okay, Nood, let's start singing:

"Armstrong -- has only got one ball!/Barga -- has two but they are small..."

The last Yugo I've ever seen on the road disappeared from Oxnard, CA two, maybe three years ago. It was red. Rather untidy inside. I suspect its owner (30-something male Caucasian, collar-length dark brown hair, medium build) now drives something a bit ... less surprising. It probably goes faster too.

As far as the question asked by the thread ... I still only get as far as "they're French" and I can't come up with anything else.

Meet anybody from around Paris and you will know. I believe it happened with DeGaulle pumping up the citizens by letting them think they were the center of the world. Some of them truly believe that.

Salvador Dali said the center of the world was Perpignan station (city in south of France).
Even the genious can smoke too much.
Times are changing and France loses its magnificence. So sad...
If he was still alive he would say the new center of the world is Los Angeles. ;)

I know where is Urban Guerrilla's center of the world.
You can't find it on a map, but in an anatomic atlas :D

I'm not sure when I see the successful US singers, fastfood and films in France.
And we're going to elect a politician nearly as mad as Bush.

The cover is really awful, so sorry. :(

Aren't many of our jazz singer/musicians more successful in France than in the US?

That's not necessarily a good thing ... Donny Osmond, David Hasselhoff, Jerry Lewis ... you see what I mean?

:biggrin: Hee hee, Barga.

My Muse ran out of gas before I could come up with anything as good as "Himmler -- his are dissimilar" for a third line -- that's my favorite version of the third line of The Colonel Bogey March (and you haven't lived until you've heard a Japanese JASDF military band playing it!). "And poor old Goebbels/Has no balls/At all" is pretty much an insert-name-here kind of line.