January 25, 2008

Promenade dans la rue Raymond Ridel au travers sa numérotation Featuring - 5, 11, 13, 14, 14BIS, 15, 18, 18TER, 18, 20, 21, 22, 22bis, 23, 24, 25, 26, 30, 32, 34, 39 37, 38, 39 BIS, 40, 42, 44, 41, 43, 49, 58, 60, 59, 63, 64, 66, 68, 70, 71, 72, 76, 81, 82-84, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 92, 94, 95, 96, 98, 100, 101, 102, 103, 105, 106, 107, 110, 112, 118bis, 111, 113, 115, 117, 120. With xylophone and violin. How French is that!
posted by tellurian 16 years ago
  • How French? A little. How postworthy? Less. My opinion, YMMV.
  • But… but… the frivolity, the sheer cheekiness of 5 to 20 before the xylophone kicks in right up to 32 when it's all I can do to not to leap up and dance along until we get to 42. The big chorus build-up to 81 is a prelude to my crumbling restraint as I sweep across the floor until 101 when I'm thrown into a deep reverie, brutally brought back down to earth with the abrupt cut-off at 120. Vive la France!
  • Oooh, this might be a good moment to ask: what does "[number] bis" mean? I've seen this in a number of places, notably in the Series numbers of Russian submarines, but I can't find anything that will tell me what it means.
  • Latin for 'second' or 'twice'. A second edition, as in the 14-bis of Alberto Santos-Dumont.
  • (See a recreation of the 14-bis in flight and much historical revisionism here.)
  • Thanks Cap'n!
  • I live to serve. And I liked your FPP, tellurian. Ignore Ralph, like the rest of us.
  • I liked this and the photography is decent enough. I looked up the numerotation, and found the following sequence: semel, bis, ter, quater, quinquies, sexies, septies, octies, novies, decies, undecies, duodecies As the Capt. says, these are "once, twice, thrice..." and so on.
  • Christ, I've always meant to find out the why of bis (although I suppose it is obvious) - but I'd completely forgotten about it until Dreadnought asked. Thanks Dreadnought, thanks-bis Capt., and thanks-ter tellurian.
  • and thanks-ter tellurian. I saw what you did there. Does anyone happen to know what the soundtrack is?
  • And thanks-quad tracicle and thanks-quin quidnunc and thanks-sex MoFi and thanks-sep Jesus and thanks-oct everyone and thanks-non no-one and thanks-dec Dr. Henry C. M'Abuse, the saddest lil' clown in the big top.
  • The same guy has a nice Petite histoire du ticket de métro parisien, including the latest t+ ticket, which is white!
  • tre bon!
  • ...s merde!
  • The same guy has a nice 'Petite histoire du ticket de métro parisien' Hey roryk! That ties in with how I first came across it [via] aeiou - the fluctuat blog (which I found researching this question), but I didn't know what it was all about (not knowing French).
  • Very purty indeed! Since I don't know this tune well enough, I shall instead have "La Valse a Mille Temps" stuck in my head all day as a substitute. French numbers? I prefer French letters. Way-hey!!
  • roryk - and pray tell, why does a white ticket deserve an exclamation mark? All of the tickets featured on that blog are coloured (is that why, it's the first ever white ticket)? The Underpants Monster - That's the perfect Jacques Brel (if only the street numbers had gone into the thousands). I'm giddy with the spinning background. Are you a Scott Walker fan by any chance?
  • I've never heard of him, but will check him out forthwith! LVAMT is one of my favorites for the simple reason that it's one of the rare times we actually hear or see Brel simply being happy!
  • I have no idea what's going on. Except I think TUM should change her name to The Undecies Monster
  • > roryk - and pray tell, why does a white ticket deserve an exclamation mark? It shocked me a few weeks ago when I bought some.* I guess it's a departure from the past because up to now the tickets have been printed in a dark ink on coloured card. The card for the new ticket is mainly white with orange and blue. *I was buying tickets from a dispenser at the most recent tramline (which is oh so pretty) and thought initially that this was a special ticket for the tram.
  • What's the diff between the leftover mauve T ticket I have in my wallet and a white T+, roryk? Is it metro and RER?
  • And that IS a nice-looking tram. I wish I had grass that good at my house...
  • Mathilde - A long time ago + bonus [Dusty Springfield] but lackluster when juxtaposed with Brel. Jesse possibly difficult but stay (with me baby), it's rewarding
  • > What's the diff between the leftover mauve T ticket I have in my wallet and a white T+, roryk? Is it metro and RER? The T ticket should be valid for metro and RER within Paris. I think the point of T+ is that you can change from one above-ground (tram or bus) route to another within a period of 90 minutes.
  • On a related subject, this is a nice little book. I guess I'm gradually outing myself as a public transport nerd.
  • In that case, roryk, you might want to pick up this. Great fun, as it's a perfect balance between promoting your own interests and screwing over your opponents. Quality of the tiles is a little lacking, though. Otherwise quite fun, if not all that long-lived.
  • Also quite good, if not directly applicable to your experience, is Subwayland. Includes stories about public transport nerds to build replica trains in their basement, and also talks in some depth about the train-riding pigeons of Brooklyn and Far Rockaway.
  • Excellent in every way. Also, here's a sign for FOUR houses at the same address: 19, 19 bis, 19 ter, and 19 quater!
  • Qu'est-ce que c'est? Or, in English: What's this that this is? C'est cool, dans tout cas.
  • Alsoo, __bis __ter __quater eez som kine ohv Fronch numbering seestem that I haven't learned ohv, non? /faux frenchy
  • That's how my cat talks, vertigo.
  • Despite him macho appearance, Mr. Whiskers meows like a girl.