ErikW Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 This open letter to the French government, was a letter to the editor of an Australian newspaper, mocking France about its nuclear testing in the Pacific. Many thanks to Vince Pinto for digging up this gem for us. Je suis a bit fromaged off avec votre decision to blow up La Pacifique avec le Frog bombes nuclears. Je reckon vous must have un spot in La Belle France itself pour les explosions. Le Massive Central? Le Quay d'Orsay? Le Champs Elysees? Votre own back yard, peut etre? Frappez le crows avec stones, Sport! La guerre cold est fini! Votres forces militaire need la bombe atomique about as beaucoup as poisson need les bicyclettes. Un autre point, cobber. Votre histoire militaire isn't tres flash, consisting, n'est-ce pas, of battailles the likes of Crecy, Agincourt, Poitiers, Trafalgar, Borodino, Waterloo, Sedan et Dien Bien Phu. Un bombe won't change le tradition. Je/mon pere/mon grand-pere/le cousin third avec ma grandmere/la plume de ma tante fought avec votre soldats against Le Boche in WWI (le Big One). Have vous forgotten? Reconsider, mon ami, otherwise in le hotels et estaminets de l'Australie le curse anciens d'Angleterre - "Damnation to the French" - will be heard un autre temps. Votre chums don't want that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 How about posting it in ENGLISH for those of us who don't read French. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Hayden Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 This is what MS Word did for me: I am a bit cheesed off with your decision to blow up the Pacific with Frog bombs nuclears. I reckon you must cuts a spot in Beautiful France itself for the explosions. Massive The Exchange? Quay d' Orsay? The Elysees Fields? Your own back can yard, be? Strike the crows with stones, Sport! The war cold is finished! Votres forces soldier need the atomic bomb about how much have fish need bicycles. Another point, cobber. Your military history isn't very flash, consisting, is not this, of battailles the likes of Crecy, Agincourt, Poitiers, Trafalgar, Borodino, Waterloo, Sedan and Dien Bien Phu. A bomb won't change the tradition. Je/mon pere/mon large-pere/le cousin third with my grandmere/la feather of my aunt fought with your soldiers against Boche in WWI (Big One). To you forgotten cuts? Reconsider, my friend, otherwise in the hotels and pubs of old Australia the curse of England - "Damnation to the French" - will Be heard another time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 ...This is how we spoke French in our high school first-year level French. Later we got better, but at first we could hardly keep from LOAO..... Vive la idiocy...! MSWord still has a lot of bugs--and that's one of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikW Posted February 21, 2004 Author Share Posted February 21, 2004 LOL! Some people just don't get it. It's pidgin French; that's the whole point. It helps if you took even one French class at some point in your life (me, 20+ years ago). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricW Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 Freakin' Hysterique!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlin Orr Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 Another point, cobber. Your military history isn't very flash Wahhhhhaaaaaa and so true it is.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Hayden Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 Having taken German and Spanish... it made zero sense to me.... At least Word gives us a flavor.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 It's all about the fromage, mon cher, the fromage! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlin Orr Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 Fromage???? Isn't that some kind on unnatural act done on crowded busses? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 You 'da man, Merlin... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 Mais, oui! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Pinto Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 I once had a girlfriend who couldn't cook to save her life. One day I went to her place for dinner and, when I asked her "What's for dinner" she replied "Frommage sur le toast". At least she had a great sense of humour Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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