International Mothership

SHAUNA: Hello Mother! It's The Daughter.

MOTHERSHIP: Hello The Daughter!

S: I just wanted to call you before we nicked off for the weekend.

M: Oh yes, Paris. Well you know what they say about Paris.

S: No?

M: Pickpockets and bum pinchers. That's what it's all about. If they're not stealing your wallet they're pinching you on the arse.

S: Really?

M: Oh yes. They can be quite rude.

S: And who told you this?

M: Oh I read it in the Sunday Telegraph.

S: Now there's a reputable source!

M: If you can't trust Rupert Murdoch, who can you trust? Now stay out of that Tunnel.

June 19, 2003 | Permalink | Posted in The Mothership | Comments (19)

Comments

1 · Monkey said:

My bum got pinched in Paris. Not my wallet though. One outta two aint bad!

June 19, 2003 11:32 PM

2 · TJ said:

My folks offered a baguette (nothing wrong with it) to a gypsy who was begging in Paris, and were promply rebuffed.

He drew himself up, utterly furious, ground out "Baguette!!?" *Ptah* , spat at them, and hit my mum in the head with the bread stick before running away.

Forget the pickpockets. Look out for baguette-wielding gypsies. Murdoch doesn't know jack.

June 20, 2003 1:15 AM

3 · mb said:

My roommates in London went to Paris for a weekend and they stayed in a hotel called Mister Bed. That's all I'm saying.

June 20, 2003 4:40 AM

4 · Kristen said:

oooh! have fun in paris.

you will be back in edinburgh next weekend though, right? looking forward to seeing you then!! woooooooo!

June 20, 2003 10:28 AM

5 · Caitlin said:

When I had a weekend in Paris, neither pickpocketing nor bum-pinching happened. I did get very, very drunk though.

Have fun!

June 20, 2003 12:11 PM

6 · Shauna in US said:

Hello from another Shauna. Nice to see someone else knows how to spell...er rather someone else's mother.

In Paris, just pinch back. That otta fix 'em.

June 20, 2003 9:26 PM

7 · Swampy said:

Ahh Paris in the summertime. Make sure you eat some snails!

June 21, 2003 2:42 PM

8 · Caz said:

Dude I'm with your mother on the Tunnel thing. I refuse to go through the Sydney Harbour one as well, for the same reasons. Once I made a wrong turn and nearly ended up driving through the tunnel, I took my chances with swerving into oncoming traffic so I could make a hasty retreat such was my level of freaking out about having to go into the Tunnel. Scares the living crap out of me it does.

June 22, 2003 12:22 AM

9 · Gert said:

The worst thing I found on my recent trip to paris was being tapped for money by a scottish tramp... stay in the big Ed

June 22, 2003 8:31 PM

10 · saara said:

Tres excitement! (PS. If you get into trouble, my ex works at the Oz embassy!) Oh, and HI!

June 22, 2003 11:58 PM

11 · joschwa said:

... and don't forget to come to Berlin ...

June 23, 2003 12:04 AM

12 · Luke said:

I sincerely hope you checked out that memorial... it's my favourite bit of Paris...