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Fil Ouvert

by Tim F|  September 8, 200912:36 am| 72 Comments

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Ca serait le dernier en Francais. Amusez-vous bien.

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  1. 1.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 8, 2009 at 12:39 am

    You just do it to piss off DougJ, don’t you, Tim F.?

    Je suis tres fatigue, dans je n’ai pas ….able to sleep.

  2. 2.

    JK

    September 8, 2009 at 12:46 am

    In honor of your trip to France

    In France They Kiss On Main Street – Joni Mitchell
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgjdm5qXTX4

  3. 3.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 8, 2009 at 12:54 am

    @JK: Commie.

  4. 4.

    JK

    September 8, 2009 at 1:14 am

    Asiangirl,
    “Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out, come and keep your comrade warm” – Paul McCartney

    The Internationale
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXZVhKvvMVU

    Back In The USSR – the Beatles
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-2LQGigK-0

  5. 5.

    The Dangerman

    September 8, 2009 at 1:19 am

    Only French I know is”Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir” thanks to Lady Marmalade.

  6. 6.

    kwAwk

    September 8, 2009 at 1:25 am

    Ca would be the French last. Have fun.

    Sometimes babelfish isn’t so helpful.

  7. 7.

    Polish the Guillotines

    September 8, 2009 at 1:30 am

    @The Dangerman: Is this inspiration for your handle?

  8. 8.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 8, 2009 at 1:31 am

    @JK: Double commie.

    Merde!

  9. 9.

    ellaesther

    September 8, 2009 at 1:33 am

    אז רגע, אפשר לדבר בשפה כלשהיא? אחלה! – אלה אסתר

    Now here’s my question: Will the Hebrew sentence I just typed appear once I hit “submit”? Oh how I wish there were a preview button!

    (No worries, by the way. All I wrote was “So hold on, we can talk in any language? Awesome! – ella esther” )

    (Or WAS that all I wrote…. mwAH-HAHAHAHA ha *cough* HA!)

  10. 10.

    burnspbesq

    September 8, 2009 at 1:35 am

    Nous pouvons avoir un fil ouvert en Francais chaque fois que nous voulons.

  11. 11.

    ellaesther

    September 8, 2009 at 1:37 am

    @ellaesther: SUCCESS!!

    I am unreasonably happy about this.

    כל הכבוד לי! כל הכבוד

  12. 12.

    JK

    September 8, 2009 at 1:39 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Your comments possess a certain je ne sais quoi. Keep it up, you’re on a whatever the French word is for roll.

  13. 13.

    burnspbesq

    September 8, 2009 at 1:41 am

    Renard-de-fer a ete le suck aujourd’hui. De nombreux crashes.

  14. 14.

    JK

    September 8, 2009 at 1:43 am

    @ellaesther:

    That’s very cool. Can you type anything in other languages using non-Roman alphabets such as Hindi, Arabic, Korean, Japanese, Greek, or Russian?

  15. 15.

    kipkrao

    September 8, 2009 at 1:45 am

    日本語でもいけるかな?
    If the message above appears, it means we can also type in Japanese. It’s not gonna help communication though.

  16. 16.

    MikeJ

    September 8, 2009 at 1:45 am

    you’re on a whatever the French word is for roll.

    Baguette?

  17. 17.

    JK

    September 8, 2009 at 1:46 am

    @kipkrao:

    Congrats

  18. 18.

    IndyLib

    September 8, 2009 at 1:47 am

    J’ai une attaque d’allergie, donc apres une Benedryl , je vais dormir. Bonne nuit.

  19. 19.

    ellaesther

    September 8, 2009 at 1:48 am

    @MikeJ: Ok, it’s really late where I am and I am a bit giddy with tiredness, but I’m sure that has nothing to do with the guttural LOL that emerged from the back of my throat when reading this comment! Oh, I do love an LOL!

  20. 20.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 8, 2009 at 1:49 am

    @JK: Triple commie, mon petit chou-chou.

  21. 21.

    JK

    September 8, 2009 at 1:49 am

    @MikeJ:

    Thanks. My knowledge of French is criminally limited.

  22. 22.

    slag

    September 8, 2009 at 1:52 am

    @asiangrrlMN: “Je ne peux pas dormir”?

  23. 23.

    slag

    September 8, 2009 at 1:53 am

    @MikeJ: petit pain

  24. 24.

    JK

    September 8, 2009 at 1:53 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Monty Python Communist Quiz Sketch
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ9myHhpS9s&feature=PlayList&p=7A44A8C1B630286A&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=14

  25. 25.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 8, 2009 at 1:53 am

    @slag: Merci! Ce la! Or something like that.

  26. 26.

    CaseyL

    September 8, 2009 at 1:55 am

    And now, in keeping with this thread’s theme, a lovely little song en faux Francais:

    Friar jerker,
    Friar jerker,
    Dormer view?
    Dormer view?

    Sonny lay martini
    Sonny lay martini
    Drink, drank, drunk.
    Drink, drank, drunk.

    Bonne nuit, y’all.

  27. 27.

    ellaesther

    September 8, 2009 at 1:56 am

    @JK: Apparently (given kipkrao’s success) one can type these things, but not I — for I only have Hebrew and English on my keyboard.

    I know, that’s not what you meant. Did I mention how tired I am?

    I believe I really must go to sleep, for the short people will be up and demanding to go to school (or – worse yet, I will have to get them up and demand that they go to school) in six hours. So:

    ! לילה טוב לכל הבלון-ג’וסניקים

    “Lila tov l’kol ha’balloon juice-nikim!”

    Good night to all the balloon juicers!

  28. 28.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 8, 2009 at 1:57 am

    @slag: Little bread?

    @JK: Je deteste toi, le petit Commie!

  29. 29.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 8, 2009 at 1:58 am

    @CaseyL: Ok, that got me laughing out loud.

    Wait, so can people actually see the Japanese? I can’t. What browsers are y’all using?

  30. 30.

    slag

    September 8, 2009 at 1:59 am

    @asiangrrlMN: Or roll.

  31. 31.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 8, 2009 at 2:03 am

    @slag: Yes, but not in the sense of what JK was saying, right? Or is my French really that rusty?

  32. 32.

    robertdsc

    September 8, 2009 at 2:04 am

    ُعرذا، ُعرذا، ُعرذا!
    Tunch, Tunch, Tunch!

  33. 33.

    JK

    September 8, 2009 at 2:06 am

    Opening scene from Day For Night (Lа Νuіt Аmérісаnе) by Francois Truffaut
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLzn75AWpjI&feature=related

  34. 34.

    JK

    September 8, 2009 at 2:08 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Did you take french classes in high school or college?

  35. 35.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 8, 2009 at 2:10 am

    @JK: Jacqueline Bisset est tres sexie, ainsi je vous pardonne pour being a commie!

  36. 36.

    burnspbesq

    September 8, 2009 at 2:10 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Renaud-de-fer. C’est normalement le bombe. Aujourd’hui, c’est le suck. Pourquoi? Je ne sais pas. Les sites ne finiront pas de charger.

  37. 37.

    OriGuy

    September 8, 2009 at 2:10 am

    It is possible to type in Russian. However, I don’t have the patience to figure out where the letters are on the keyboard. Why Windows doesn’t have a nice little app that shows that, I don’t know.
    I’m using Firefox. I saw the Hebrew, Japanese, and Arabic.

  38. 38.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 8, 2009 at 2:11 am

    @JK: Both. Four years in high school and one semester in college. Needless to say, it didn’t stick very well. My comprehension is better than my speaking/typing.

  39. 39.

    JK

    September 8, 2009 at 2:12 am

    @robertdsc:

    Forgive me ignorance, but what alphabet (it’s look like Arabic but I’m not sure) did you type above Tunch, Tunch, Tunch?

  40. 40.

    burnspbesq

    September 8, 2009 at 2:14 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Tu es peut-etre Commie, mais tu es notre Commie, et nous t’aimons.

  41. 41.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 8, 2009 at 2:16 am

    @burnspbesq: Ok. I understand everything but your first sentence, and it’s driving me nuts. Firelake? That’s not what you’re saying. Something of fire. Normally, it’s the bomb, but today it sucks. You don’t know why. The sites never change.

    @OriGuy: I can see the Arabic and the Hebrew, but not the Japanese. Damn.

  42. 42.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 8, 2009 at 2:17 am

    @burnspbesq: Merci beaucoup, mais je ne suis pas Commie. Je suis un Dirty Fucking Hippie!

  43. 43.

    burnspbesq

    September 8, 2009 at 2:20 am

    Quand je parle Francais en France, les locales rient.

  44. 44.

    burnspbesq

    September 8, 2009 at 2:20 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Firefox.

  45. 45.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 8, 2009 at 2:21 am

    Zoot alors, je suis tres tres tres fatigue. Bon soir, mes amis et amies. J’adore tout le monde, excepte l’idiot W. et son posse!

  46. 46.

    JK

    September 8, 2009 at 2:21 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    I assume you get the gist of the following

    Rien de dormier cette nuit
    Je veux de toi
    Jusque’a` ce que je sois sec
    Mais nos corps sont tout mouille’s
    Comple’tement couvert de sueur
    Nous nous noyons dans la mare’e
    Je n’ai aucun de’sir
    Tu as ravage’ mon coeur
    Et mois j’ai bu ton sang

    Mais non pouvons faire ce que nous voulons
    J’aurais toujours faim de toi
    Mais non pouvons faire ce que nous voulons
    J’aurais toujours faim de toi

    Tout le monde est a` moi
    Je l’ai gagne’ dans un jeu de cartes
    Et maintenant je m’en fous
    C’e’tait gagne’ trop facilement
    Ca y est alors ma belle trai^tresse
    Il faut que je bru^le de jalousie
    Tu as ravage’ mon coeur
    Et moi j’ai bu ton sang

    Mais non pouvons faire ce que nous voulons
    J’aurais toujours faim de toi
    Mais non pouvons faire ce que nous voulons
    J’aurais toujours faim de toi

    Mais non pouvons faire ce que nous voulons
    J’aurais toujours faim de toi
    Mais non pouvons faire ce que nous voulons
    J’aurais toujours faim de toi

    h/t http://lyrics.rockmagic.net/lyrics/police/ghost_in_the_machine_1981.html

  47. 47.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 8, 2009 at 2:22 am

    @burnspbesq: Damn it. I should have known. I knew Renaud was fox. Merde!

  48. 48.

    robertdsc

    September 8, 2009 at 2:22 am

    @JK:

    Yes, it’s Arabic.

    ّف؛س تعسف فاث ذاشقشذفثقس، رخف فاث شذفعشم مشرلعشلث، وهري غخع.
    It’s just the characters, mind you. Not the language.

    TunchTunchTunch!

  49. 49.

    burnspbesq

    September 8, 2009 at 2:23 am

    Il faut dormir. Le travail recommence demain. Bonne nuit a tous.

  50. 50.

    JK

    September 8, 2009 at 2:25 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Agreed on Bisset’s physical attributes. Plus, she knows how to act.

  51. 51.

    scarshapedstar

    September 8, 2009 at 2:27 am

    Go back to Mexico, you goddamned terrist!

  52. 52.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 8, 2009 at 2:31 am

    @JK: Mon tete! Ah, mon bon ami!

    That was very fucking hard for me to translate, even with the aid of Babelfish.

    Alack, Monsieur Parnell would be very disappointed in me.

  53. 53.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 8, 2009 at 2:33 am

    @burnspbesq: Night! Sleep tight.

    @JK: Yes. She is, indeed, the complete package (and thank you for typing in English). I really must stagger off to bed now. Night! See ya on the flip side.

  54. 54.

    robertdsc

    September 8, 2009 at 2:37 am

    خمم. آرابيص ين ڤّغزثظ. ىنتعرعستينغ.
    Hmm. Arabic in QWERTY. Interesting.

    Пчонетиц Руссиан. Phonetic Russian.

    Γρεεκ ψηαραψτερσ. Greek characters.

    C鳥木魚一 Chinese Dayri.

    Behold the power of MacOS X Tiger!

  55. 55.

    eco2geek

    September 8, 2009 at 3:23 am

    Voyons si ça marche…

    Alicante

    Une orange sur la table
    Ta robe sur le tapis
    Et toi dans mon lit
    Doux présent du présent
    Fraîcheur de la nuit
    Chaleur de ma vie.

    – Jacques Prévert, Paroles

  56. 56.

    Sebastien

    September 8, 2009 at 3:48 am

    ARG ! je me connecte à Balloon Juice (“Extrait de Ballon” ou Carburant à Ballon” ?) et je lis en français. Le moins que l’on puisse dire est que çà surprend.

    Anyway, glad you enjoyed your stay in France, and that the local wildlife (we who are called the French) didn’t spoil it. As we happen to say when we have a smidgen of humility (rare, I know), “God did such a wonderful job creating France that he was afraid other countries would not measure up. So, to compensate, he created the French.”

  57. 57.

    MikeJ

    September 8, 2009 at 4:16 am

    De foot et de coun! O Seigneur Dieu! ce sont mots
    de son mauvais, corruptible, gros, et impudique, et
    non pour les dames d’honneur d’user: je ne voudrais
    prononcer ces mots devant les seigneurs de France
    pour tout le monde. Foh! le foot et le coun!
    Neanmoins, je reciterai une autre fois ma lecon
    ensemble: de hand, de fingres, de nails, de arm, de
    elbow, de nick, de sin, de foot, de coun.

  58. 58.

    Ecks

    September 8, 2009 at 4:38 am

    Les chansons complet en francais est trop de devoir pour moi. L’heure est petit ici, et je suis fatigue

    Gawds is my french every horrible. Though funnily enough my wife’s is technically better, but I usually get further, because I’m more willing to hack together atrotiously ungrammatic sentences that usually convey enough meaning (when combined with violent gesturing and an interlocutor who speaks a bit of English).

  59. 59.

    cosanostradamus

    September 8, 2009 at 5:17 am

    .
    La femme du temps-voyageur, nue.
    .

  60. 60.

    Demo Woman

    September 8, 2009 at 7:40 am

    Good Morning, This is a test.. chaussures chaussures chaussures

  61. 61.

    Fulcanelli

    September 8, 2009 at 7:42 am

    Il était meilleur dans l’Allemand original, M. Buchanan.

    When I try to speak a foreign language I don’t know or understand to a visitor from another country, it always helps when I speak really loud. No, really.

  62. 62.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 8, 2009 at 7:47 am

    @MikeJ: Ha! My favourite scene from Hank Cinq. I was reading that just a couple of days ago. Always makes me smile. Merci.

  63. 63.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 8, 2009 at 7:48 am

    @Fulcanelli: And twice as slowly. Morning!

  64. 64.

    gnomedad

    September 8, 2009 at 7:51 am

    我的气垫船充满了鳝鱼

  65. 65.

    Fulcanelli

    September 8, 2009 at 8:00 am

    @asiangrrlMN: My, you’re up and chatting early… Central time zone, no?

  66. 66.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 8, 2009 at 8:06 am

    @Fulcanelli: Yes. I got three hours of sleep. Not by choice. My body just decided it was time for me to get the fuck up.

  67. 67.

    SGEW

    September 8, 2009 at 8:16 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    My body just decided it was time for me to get the fuck up.

    I seem to have delegated decisions for my wake-up time to my cat.

    Cuter than an alarm clock, but has no snooze function.

  68. 68.

    JK

    September 8, 2009 at 8:41 am

    @gnomedad:

    Omniglot is a very impressive website.

  69. 69.

    Caravelle

    September 8, 2009 at 9:51 am

    Alors, c’était comment la France ? Des détails ! Des détails !

  70. 70.

    slag

    September 8, 2009 at 10:56 am

    @MikeJ: Henry V?

  71. 71.

    Gus

    September 8, 2009 at 12:13 pm

    Speak American, dammit!

  72. 72.

    Snarla

    September 8, 2009 at 6:55 pm

    و هنا جملة حقيقية باللغة العربية
    و سلام

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