"That badge became the un-ticket," said Ellen Lupton, senior curator of contemporary design at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
"We were told that the incidents which took place at last month's league match were caused, in part, by fans with tickets colluding with un-ticketed fans to force entry into the stadium.
He and other hard-core French fans use every trick they can to work the elites for a ticket — un invitation, s'il vous plait, as their signs and sweetly haunting mantras suggest — that has fallen through the cracks.
Competition sprang up recently: Rockabus, which sports un-jitneylike online ticketing and a Twitter account, offers the better-heeled beach bum $10 rides to Fort Tilden and Rockaway Beach.
But rather than side with Goldsmith and denounce the corporate suits in California, many fans are choosing to blame the promoter's rather un-rock 'n' roll restrictive rules regarding ticket purchases.
Bob Crow, the RMT's general secretary, said: "Every single ticket office would be closed, stations left un-staffed and drivers would be thrown out of their cabs without a single thought for passenger safety.
The only film to come close is Séraphin: un homme et son péché in 2002, selling 1.3 million tickets.
"I don't think they un derstand that we have to bear the cost of plane tickets, some body to look after the baby and all that sort of thing," she said.
Tickets are 1.60 euros each, but can be bought in packets of 10 (un carnet) for 11.40 euros, about $16 at $1.41 to the euro.
But only 35% bothered to cast un bulletin de vote in the second round of France's parliamentary election (it's what comes from loading the ticket with the likes of retired matadors and mathematical savants).
