Dear Vice,
I am living in Paris trying to learn French, sharing a bed with two other people and a few hundred bedbugs and mosquitoes. While we were shivering through our croisant and crunchy butter yesterday morning the doorbell sounded. It was a young fireman selling calendars, so we bought one. We huddled around the table ready to perv out on some toned Frog firefighters only to be disappointed. Unlike the Hollyoaks calendar approach that Anglo-American fire departments tend to gravitate towards, the French version was full of bleeding bodies pinned under fallen roofs, burn victims on stretchers, and blazing buildings. Not a greased torso in sight. Thanks a lot sapeurs-pompiers.
feel-good calendar of the year!
Posted by: razdog | 25/11/2008 at 18:56
"calendar of the year"
i get it.
Posted by: kevin canadian bacon | 25/11/2008 at 22:32
i wonder if they do an advent calendar special...
Posted by: | 26/11/2008 at 09:53
Ha. Yes, well what does that tell you...perhaps that unlike MOST Americans, the French are more inclined to live in the REAL world.
Um, Is it still ok to bash America post-bush? Cause it's gunna be a hard habit to kick. Go Obama.
Posted by: Shit stirrer | 27/11/2008 at 02:24