thanks for the current picture. We know a couple across the street and the wife is French- absolutely wonderful person, and damn, doesn't conform to any negative stereotype!! what's up with that??
--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > By the way, have the French learned about bathing yet? > > > > ----Never. > > Actually, that's not true. Really. > > I was here decades ago, and the concept of regular > bathing and deodorants hadn't...uh...caught on at > that time. Now, it's totally different. Since when > I'm working in Paris I ride the Metro, I can assure > you that doing so is a far more pleasant and less > fragrant experience than taking public transportation > in, say, New York. Go figure. > > *Lots* of things have changed in the last few years > in France. For example, the French were slow to adopt > personal computers and the Internet, partly because > they're resistant to change for change's sake, partly > because in Minitel they had had an alternative system > for decades that worked just fine for them. Then the > price of computers dropped and the availability of > broadband mushroomed and now, within the last year and > a half, over one-third of France's population is on > the Net. If I'm not mistaken, that's a bigger jump > for that short a period of time than in any other > country. > > The French are still infuriating in many ways, but that > is more than made up for by the food, the wine, the > cafes, and the lifestyle. For example, my health > insurance bill here is 295 Euros. A year. For more > coverage than I got in the US for $600+ per month. The > French get a minimum of eight weeks paid vacation a year. > And they're still very much a participatory democracy. > When the government does something they don't like, they > just stage a general strike and nothing moves in the > country. Nothing. No trains, no cabs, no busses, no > planes, no garbage pickup, nothing. And they keep it > up until the government backs down. Inconvenient, > during the strike, but a remarkable contrast to the > passivity of Americans. > > Anyway, they bathe. And the women shave their legs. > And because those women are descendents of the Gene > Pool of the Gods, the legs are not only clean and smooth, > they are generally attractive as well. It's a tough > life, but someone's gotta live it... :-) > > Unc > > > > > > Unc To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
