Earworm, odd combination edition

Or maybe not, I dunno, you tell me.

Anyway, lookin' at LOLCats, saw this:

which led inevitably¹ to this:


Yeah, yeah, Edith Piaf was French.  So what.  If all the Krauts in La Legion Etrangere could ignore that, so can I.

I understand The song Non, je ne regrette rienwas adopted by the Legion's 1^st Parachute Regiment after their mutiny was quashed.

I had been under the impression that it was officially suppressed, but the Wikipedia article has disabused me of that idea; I suppose that, after all, while the French may have had any aspiration to martial (or any other) greatness bled out of them², they still appreciate the grand gesture.


1. For me.  Your inevitability may vary.
2. Look, it's common in the Anglophone world to denigrate the martial abilities of the French -- cf. comments about "going deer hunting without an accordion" -- but the fact is that they can. indeed, fight.  As the web site says, especially when led by someone other than a Frenchman.  BTW, have you looked at how badly the Germans have gotten their asses whupped the last hundred years or so?  But no one says "Let's NOT have them on our side."