garçon de '71

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

Dave Monroe asked:
>was anyone involved really called a garçon de '71?

I copied the squiggle out of Babelfish, for searching.
That is even easier than modifying my character set 

So far I've learned that Comme des Garçons makes an "odeur" 71 that goes 
for 32 bucks the 1/2 oz on Amazon (and I want a sniff)

I already knew that garçon is French for "boy" and they call their 
waiters that (is that a cause of their rumored rudeness, I wonder)

as a Vineland-phile, thinking of the boys of '71 reminds me of 
"allons enfants ou la patrie" - which was a real phrase, but didn't that 
come out of the mother of all revolutions, that of Robespierre 
and Madame LaFarge and the Scarlet Pimpernel (hehheh, he said 
Pimpernel), compared to which the Paris Commune was, well...
hmmm -- like the 1960s compared to the 1890s in the US 
which is almost the same separation in time 
(especially if you end the 60s in 1973 like many people do)

Heck, put wwi and wwii in place of the various empires and depredations 
of the post-revolt French nation - and ALL WE'VE BEEN DOING here in 
this backwater is recapping French history 100 years later.  No wonder 
they laugh at us (and they do, don't they?)