On Jan 20, 2008 8:03 PM, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
michael west wrote:
mmmmm I think Wikipedia is much more uglier than that. I think a bistro in Monmarte with tables full of knives and bottles and bottles of Absinthe, testosterone and competing wisdom is more apt.
This is hardly a picture that I would associate with Montmartre. I presume that the last time you visited Montmartre was before the French banned absinthe in 1915. The knives that I would imagine would be the kind that you find in a normal restaurant table setting. The bottles are more likely to include wine, candles or artists' paintbrushes.
I bet you didn't know absinthe is again legal in France, via teh Cassis de Dijon principle, and has been for some years. Not with wormwood though, (or at least so much of it), but still.
Pedantically yours;
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]