Uncle Agony strikes again:
In a previous episode, one of our friends told us how puzzlzd he was when he couldn't open a bottle of wine. He was flabbergasted at corkscrews straightening out. I know, sounds a bit scary, but there's an X-File on that encounter, even if the truth -- the unbelievable truth!-- is elsewhere.
Here is a video that was probably taken in Paris.
Unfortunately, the creatures in it speak an alien language, but the horrible pictures speak for themselves.
A few words of vocabulary though to help the scholars-to-be in their quest of knowledge:
First 6 seconds :
- "Hé bé, si tu fais ça, t'es le meilleur..."
-"Well, if you can do that, you're the best..."
Around 38 seconds:
-"Fais-nous rêver"
-"Make us dream"
Other useful idioms:
- alcoolique : speaks for itself...
- père breton : Breton father (people from Brittany are reputed for being heavy drinkers. They are related to other Celtic people, the Scots, the Welsh, and the Irish)
- grolle : colloquial for shoe (std French: chaussure)
- "La vache!" ("The cow") : Blimey! / Holy cow! / (any common local expression of both admiration and disbelief)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa5fSBfPd0M
WARNING!
This is not an example to take. This is just to be taken as an ethnologHips-all contribution to
treebeard55's post.
Berry Chrispsmas to y'all...