I don't know how it is for others. As for me, this is a French fortnight. Apart from having to take "frites" as substitute meals from time to time, may be I could take some French jokes or is it jokes on the French. Whatever it may be, here are some that I managed to angle from that treasury of fun, aka the 'net" or is it "l'internet" or "le reseau"?
1. Q: How do the French kill themselves?
A: They shoot 15 centimeters above their heads, right in their superiority complex
2. Q: What do you call someone who speaks 3 languages?
A: Trilingual
Q: And what do you call someone who speaks 2 languages?
A: Bilingual
Q: And what do you call someone who speaks 1 language?
A: French
3. After God created France, he thought it was the most beautiful country in the world.
People were going to get jealous, so, to make things fair, he decided to create the French.
4. Seen in a Paris hotel elevator: Please leave your values at the front desk.
Outside a Paris dress shop: Dresses for street walking.
In a Chambres d'Hôtes in Brittany, France: "The genuine antics in your room come from our family castle. Long life to it." And.... "Please avoid coca watering, cream cleaning, wet towels wrapping, and ironing drying."
5. A real headache from the famous French Prime Minister, Charles de Gaulle
"How can anyone govern a nation that has 240 different kinds of cheese?
If you fancy some cheese over the weekend, there's little to beat the French!
China's chairman may say: "How can anyone govern a nation that has 9999 different kinds of toxic food?"
回覆刪除[版主回覆12/01/2012 22:30:50]Or "how can anyone govern a nation which has more than 9.9 million corrupt officials?"
France does have special attraction for its culture and food.
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Have a nice weekend!
[版主回覆12/01/2012 22:31:58]And cinema !
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honour.
回覆刪除[版主回覆12/02/2012 22:51:06]That may well be the case but since then penicillin has been invented!
I had been baffled for ages by the meaning of the term "French cap" until I found out that it was something some people wear when they are engaged in sexual acts.
回覆刪除[版主回覆12/03/2012 13:17:20]It's anybody's guess. For my part, I don't think that the Brits are particularly inventive or adventurous in that direction and even if you're right, being the kind of "phonies" that so many of them are under the euphemistic pretext of being "decent", I have some serious doubts if they'll admit it, especially in public.
[Peter回覆12/03/2012 11:02:57]But I think all the British will be turned on by "French Kiss" despite their disdain for anything French.
[版主回覆12/03/2012 10:27:07]Since the Hundred Years Wars, the English never had anything good to say about the French: to them the French armies are good only for surrender, the horn was called "French horn" (but in France the same instrument is called "Cors Anglais"!) and to go off work without prior permission is called "taking a French leave" !