Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Sacre Bleu!!!!
Over at http://www.breitbart.com/ the French are smellin' themselves over the fact that they and not the Germans, not the Italians and most importantly not the Americans, have produced the world's fastest train, clockin' in at a robust 360 mph. This will look nice in the record books next to the other speed record the Francophiles own: World's fastest surrender. Well done, France. Now, when the Moroccans and Algerians invade and take over, they'll be able to cross the country in record time.
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Maybe instead of making trains ridiculously fast they should try experimenting with personal hygiene products.
Ahhh, yes. The French smell bad, the English have bad chiclets and the Irish are drunk. Never not funny.
We're not drunk, we're high spirited.
What about Italian showers?
or golden showers?
All articles about France should start with "the French are smellin' themselves"
from wiki:
"Sacrebleu is an old French swearword, meant as a cry of surprise or anger. It would be equivalent to gosh or by Jove.
Most likely, it comes from old blasphemous curses relating to God, used from the late Middle-Ages
They were considered so offensive that Dieu was sublimated into the neutral syllable bleu which sounds similarly, but doesn't mean anything in that case.
The verb sacrer has several meanings, including to crown, to anoint, and nowadays to name someone [champion, best actor, etc]. But here, it's probably the old meaning, rarely used in France but more common in French Canada, of swear, curse. Therefore, sacrebleu would be in modern French je sacre par Dieu and in English I curse by God.
It is often considered in the English-speaking world as a quintessential French phrase.
The word is also being occasionally used by French people depicted in American cartoons."
like Pepe LePew
360 mph? Makes me feel sorta' insignificant.
sincerely,
100 mph
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