Yergenalia
Together with Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Rip Yergenes led the Paris Student Riots of 1968. A prominent Soixantehuitard (Sixty- eighter), agitator, supporter of Nuclear Disarmament, Free Love, Free Narcotics, the music of Johnny Halliday and Plastique Bertrand, Rip left France after the ‘68 Summer of Love and the Student Uprising petered out.
Barred from a Pondicherry India ashram, Rip then set out to join his idol Che Guevara in Cuba. However the chance discovery of a rare ability to communicate with flies (Musca domestica) then brought him to the attention of a firm of Polish Reconditioners, the Janczyk & Karnicki Partnership, with whom he has collaborated ever since as Pest Control Officer, applying the Yergenes FFZ (Fly Free Zone) to the company’s flagship SS Rangoon.
The Musée Yergenes opened in Thirsk, County of York GB, in 1976. Its present whereabouts are uncertain. His name lives on in Dijon where his parents, Yerpère and Yermêre established a Detox Clinic named after him. He is also renowned for the catchphrase coined during the ‘68 Paris Riots,
“No Sweat Baby, There She Lies!”
[Available on request: Similar Pictorial Portfolios of Modeste Servitoriana, Gaston de Nocherie, Pawel Janczykisme and Edouard Karnickipratique.]
“It’s not the clams you collect, it’s the clams you get when you sell’em. ”
“A barricade made entirely of Carpet Samples – that’s up there with the Pyramids and the Tower of Pizzas ”