double-plus-ungood (mail) (www):
Heh. "Je dois partir maintenant parce que ma grand-mère est flambe."

I've used that one to get off the phone occasionally: "Oops, gotta go, one of the kids is on fire."
11.30.2006 4:19pm
Ara Rubyan (www):
Qua?
11.30.2006 4:24pm
Ara Rubyan (www):
P.S. Miss Julie sometimes signs off by saying, "Gotta go, the kids have chewed through their straps."
11.30.2006 4:24pm
double-plus-ungood (mail) (www):
Qua?

Quoi. And shame. From someone living in a city that would have been called Red Stick if not for the French.
11.30.2006 4:34pm
double-plus-ungood (mail) (www):
BTW, "Je dois partir maintenant parce que ma grand-mère est flambe."

...means "I have to go now, my grandmother is on fire." He says this in order to duck out of an embarrassing conversation that he is having with a person whom he thought was a waiter, but is in fact the President of Burundi.
11.30.2006 4:44pm
Rosemary, Queen of All Evil (mail):
living in a city that would have been called Red Stick if not for the French.


You slay me! I never thought hard about the translation of Baton Rouge until just now. I'll be laughing about that all day.
11.30.2006 4:44pm
double-plus-ungood (mail) (www):
Try translating the Grand Tetons.
11.30.2006 4:45pm
Rosemary, Queen of All Evil (mail):
Yes, the President of Burundi that he just lewdly propositioned. I love Eddie.
11.30.2006 4:45pm
double-plus-ungood (mail) (www):
"Detroit" amuses me as well.
11.30.2006 4:46pm
Rosemary, Queen of All Evil (mail):
Try translating the Grand Tetons.

That was so done in the 8th grade.
11.30.2006 4:46pm
Rosemary, Queen of All Evil (mail):
Goodness are we just playing comment tag?
11.30.2006 4:47pm
double-plus-ungood (mail) (www):
Yeah, but it made my Quebecois girlfriend in the early eighties have a fit of the giggles when I told her about them.
11.30.2006 4:48pm
Dean Esmay (www):
Ich bin ein Berliner does not and never has meant "I am a donut." Just FYI.
11.30.2006 5:10pm
double-plus-ungood (mail) (www):
He probably did not have a monkey at the park either, Dean.
11.30.2006 5:18pm
Dean Esmay (www):
Whoops. I've been bouncing between Eddie Izzard threads the last 2 days. Never mind, wrong thread, wrong thread.

Abort! Abort!

(Or as they might say in French: abor, abor!)
11.30.2006 5:36pm
double-plus-ungood (mail) (www):
He does say that in one of his routines, though. And I know it's a myth, but it's a funny bit anyway. "I am a Hamburger, a Frankfurter, and a Donut."
11.30.2006 5:42pm
Sandi (www):
Ok this is wierd, En "red stick" translates into Fr "baton rouge", but En "baton rouge" translates into Fr "fard à joues de bâton" (which sorta sounds like shit a baton).
11.30.2006 7:15pm
double-plus-ungood (mail) (www):
Sounds like the translator is interpreting "rouge" as the makeup, and converting that to the French equivalent ("fard à joues").
11.30.2006 7:26pm
shep (mail):
This is the second time today my high school French has come into play. I just knew it was the right choice.
12.1.2006 7:42am
Alex (mail):
I want a name in French for what I am. I feel left out.
12.1.2006 1:41pm
Tom Hawkson (mail) (www):
Alex, tu es formidable et fantastique, non?

Yours,
Wince
12.1.2006 3:30pm
double-plus-ungood (mail) (www):
I want a name in French for what I am.

The only French name for what I am that I can recall from my time in Quebec was bestowed upon me by an automobile driver that I was having a disagreement with. "Especes de trou de cul", I think it was.
12.1.2006 4:00pm
double-plus-ungood (mail) (www):
Speaking of French, Canada just did a double-take and fell over in surprise at this.
12.2.2006 11:42pm
Alex (mail):
Thanks Tom. I feel better now.

:-)
12.3.2006 12:20am
Rhianna (mail) (www):
Hey, it is "Red Stick" but it sounds much cooler in French. Rose, do you need some damn AFN "commercials" on You Tube? I'll give them to you if I don't have to watch them anymore. (City Quiz is the new fav, used to be State Quiz. My kids can tell you shit about states they've never been anywhere near...Not bad per say but seeing it so daym many times in a day gets real irksome.)

Where the hell did the Izzard clip come from? Short of You Tube...I liked to watch him in the UK but I don't think he's kosher for AFN...for some unknown reason of course.
12.4.2006 8:48am
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