Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/01/14/the-beauty-of-sewers-before-th.html
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I really don’t mind sewer levels.
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Life is like a sewer - what you get out of it depends upon what you put into it.
- Tom Lehrer
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Speaking as a home owner who has recently spent more than a few hours trying to clear a backed up sewer, I find this both horrifying AND fascinating.
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Just back from Amazon; this is the fastest I’ve ever ordered a book shown on BB.
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Something Carol Reed knew and used to great effect.
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Few years ago I visited sewer museum in Paris, and its really worth seeing. It is located in actual sewers, with rainwater (at least I hope it was rainwater) flowing under the walkways.
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This pic from the site, described as “balls that clean the sewers”. I’ve never seen anything like that for the intended purpose. I can only guess that the ‘modular’ build of the balls is to allow removal (via in-place disassembly) of the balls in case they get stuck in a line or pipe. Maybe.
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Someone should really do a “Paris Sewer”-themed restaurant. Many menu puns come to mind.
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Truly, a radical innovation.
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With a ratatouille special? I’ll pass… 
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Also thank John Snow for that: A Song of Pumps and Germs.
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there was a Japanese(?) poop cafe that had so many poop themed food treats. I guess some find it funny eating tasty things that look like inedible things? meh.
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would you like to get it out…
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The Etruscans had a goddess of sewers, later identified with Venus…
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If that were included in the Paris Sewer Tour package… sure. Why not.
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Eeesh. To each their own. Hopefully their own. But at this level anything goes, I guess.
Treat your body as if it were a temple… No! Not that kind of temple!
