Mr. LaFontaine:  Not quite the Ganges , is it ? Not really a river anymore . Used to flood like a son of a bitch , back when I was a boy ... they paved it all over in the _ 50 _ 's . London 's got the Thames , Paris got the Seine , Vienna 's got the Blue Danube . LA 's got a concrete drainage ditch . It 's all we got : it 'll have to do .