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...French traditionally employ to sniff out the ripened tubers. Said one expert: "It only takes about three weeks to train no matter what kind of dog, and a dog is a lot easier to move around with. Getting a 450-lb. pig in and out of a Deux Chevaux is an unnecessary bother...
Some of Baroche's interviews verge on the implausible: he claims to have found one couple who learned to make love in a tiny Citroën "Deux Chevaux" auto-after they persuaded the man's dog to remain in the back seat. Serious social scientists are not sure that Baroche interviewed a sufficiently wide variety of Frenchmen to reach any valid conclusions. Still, he talked to enough to find one man who asked, "How does it happen that I have never deceived my wife?" then shrugged and answered his own question: "I don't want...
...provinces, hundreds of thousands of auvergnats, alsaciens, Savoyards and bretons have flocked to the capital. Its traffic density is even more paralyzing than Manhattan's: the broad boulevards and narrow streets are constantly jammed by cursing motorists. Finding a parking place for one's Deux Chevaux (or even one's motorbike) is becoming as difficult as scaling the Eiffel Tower...
...Socièté des Quarante et Huit Chevaux is the fun-loving, hot-footing, fanny-pinching, hose-squirting, town-wrecking branch of the American Legion. Commonly known as the 40 & 8 Society, it took its name from the French boxcars used to transport U.S. doughboys to the Western Front in World War I. The boxcars could hold 40 men or eight horses, but the 40 & 8 Society is more exclusive: along with horses, it bars nonwhite men (except for American Indians...
Last week the governor's words were borne out. From the Legion's bottom-pinching, water-throwing "fun" organization, La Société des Quarante Hommes et Huit Chevaux, came some of the most agonized sounds in many a year: the Forty and Eight threatened to walk out on the parent organization...