The parody of this song I really like is Caught in a Bad Project by the Hui Zheng Lab, but this one is for Bastille Day!
Axé.
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coldhearted scientist وداد 
Two of my daughters’ birthdays are today so I guess that they’re going to be little revolutionaires. My youngest daughter’s birthday is tomorrow but she always wants her own party. I was hoping for three for the price of one but it never works out that way.
Do you have twins or did they get the same birthday by weird random chance? It is so weird, too, that the third one is just one day later!
Yes. The oldest two are twins. We were on holidays down in P. town on Cape Cod when things started to happen. Checked into a hospital in Salem, MA but they said everything had settled down. My Ex, bless her UEL heart, wanted to go home so we got back Friday night and she went into labour Saturday morning so I missed having two anchor babies.
As for the youngest perhaps it was the Wiccan aura in Salem. 🙂
P.S. My oldest (by 11 minutes) is on an archeological dig in Gravina, Italy so I only got to talk to her on the phone yesterday. No available internet in Gravina!
Anchor babies?
Youngest was conceived October 15 then, coming up on Hallowe’en, yes!
Anchor babies are a “sub rosa” joke. It’s a pejorative reference to the supposed role of the child who automatically qualifies as an American citizen and can later act as a sponsor for other family members. American citizenship may be conferred by “jus sol”, born on US soil regardless of the family nationality or conditions. Canada and the US have a treaty where such persons have a dual citizenship. In a September 3, 2008, debate in Danville, Virginia, Republican Congressman Virgil Goode declared that the greatest threat to America’s national security was “anchor babies”.
Of course my Ex would want to get back to Canada. Her UEL family still complain about the Jay treaty of 1795.
Oh yes, anchor babies, I had a senior moment, forgot about thinking of this in relation to Canadians. (I was once told there were more Canadians working illegally in the US than Mexicans.)
Your X’s family sounds quite entertaining.
Yes. Every couple of years they have a family reunion at the picnic ground near Niagara falls where they celebrate the Battle of Queenston heights (Oct. 1812) which they consider payback for having had their property confiscated by the Continental Congress. One clause in the Jay treaty stated that those who had their property confiscated would be compensated but this was never honoured. Fly the Union Jacks and tell the family narrative.
Down here, the Cajuns still retell the Grand Dérangement of 1755. 18th century traumas still live for that part of Canada … ? … it must have been quite a time … ? … Hmmm … I mean, Jews don’t talk about the Holocaust and general wandering, or African Americans about slavery and Jim Crow, as much as these post Canadians do about Canada … maybe their experience was in fact analogous to or even more traumatizing than the other examples I have just given, and I am not giving them credit … ?