The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    Guerres des Étoilles Existentielles

    By EmmaZahn on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 3:37pm |

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    How many times have I tried to heat my breakfast coissant with my laser sword only to burn it to cinders?  Debout le morte.

    Thanks a million autie Em.


    by LarryH on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 4:39pm

    Clever, it took me awhile to 'get it'.

    I had to go back to my Oxford-Anguish Dictionary.


    by Richard Day on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 5:12pm

    The words I hear are not the words I see. Words are nothing. I am nothing, waiting, alone.


    by Rootman on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 5:33pm

    I think you will find it easier to understand things like this if you become a regular reader of the inserts in the Dr. Scholl’s Foot Pad products.  I order mine on-line and I always try to get the package meant for the French market.  There are no pads in the box, just the insert, but it goes a long way toward understanding things.  As a side benefit after reading them I have lost all desire to even go out of the house so my foot ailments have become moot. I like to think of it as my one zen breakthrough.


    by LarryH on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 5:39pm

    I hereby give you Dick's Dayly Award.

    You will find the prize meaningless, I'm sure. But the $50 cash should come in handy.


    by quinn esq on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 6:03pm

    Y;know, I first saw Star Wars with a pretty Belgian girl named Anne. I laughed a lot during the movie, but she never cracked a smile. All these years I thought she had no sense of humor, but now I realize she was in anguish.


    by Donal on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 5:47pm

    That wasn't Anne Guish, from Brussels, was it? She was one serious girl.


    by Rootman on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 5:53pm

    More likely Ann Ailment. Nasty girl, got around a bit.

    Fortunately, she had a twin, Ann Tidote. That helped.


    by quinn esq on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 6:05pm

    Ha, I never did learn her last name. 


    by Donal on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 6:09pm

    Oh where oh where are Mrs. Premise and Mrs. Conclusion when you need them.


    by cmaukonen on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 6:05pm

    My absolute favorite Python moment.  "When will he be free?" "He's spent the last sixty years trying to work that one out." 


    by LarryH on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 6:23pm

    One less L in Étoiles, Émma. Désolé to add to your ennui, but typographical accuracy begins the other side of despair. Or so I'm told. Like it matters. Je m'en fous, gang de cons dagblogiens.


    by acanuck on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 6:38pm

    And you can go to 'Ell, French guy.


    by quinn esq on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 6:54pm

    'Eaven or 'ell, it will all be boring. I had planned to vote tomorrow, but après vos injures I'll just stay home and bouder.


    by acanuck on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 7:15pm

    Sacré merde!

    Comment dites-vous 'spelling police' en francais?   

    Je suis tres desole...


    by EmmaZahn on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 7:04pm

    Vous blaguez, mais ...

    In France, l'Académie française defines what's acceptable spelling or usage, and denounces use of "anglicisms." In Quebec, there's l'Office de la langue française, which actually has inspectors who visit businesses and warn them of language-law violations. Like having too much English on their signs, or carrying products without French labeling. Ignore them and they can fine you big bucks. By the way, Emma, consider this your official first warning.


    by acanuck on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 7:27pm

    Is copy/paste a valid excuse?


    by EmmaZahn on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 7:36pm

    Hell is - other people's spelling.


    by Donal on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 7:50pm

    :>)


    by EmmaZahn on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 7:54pm

    Yea well down here in the southern Provinces we argue about language usage too.  For example do you know which is corrrect - motherfuckers or mothersfucker?


    by LarryH on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 8:00pm