Photo request - FPW 12 - French Sailors

[mollinary]

This thread must be a contenter for "most academic thread direction change" of the year? 

We've gone from FPW figure photos to obscure french sayings to proper english allieraition and even had a bit of greek thrown in - very educational     

It is not really a French phrase at all, obscure or not. It is simply an example of the lengths the English will go to to produce a pathetic joke! 

Mollinary

[pierre the shy]

I think my sense of humour has been greatly modified by my "extended absence" from the UK.

Anyway...I'm only in thiis tread for the pictures 

[Leman]

And you appear to have acquired an Irish accent.

[cameronian]

You really shouldn't start a sentence with a conjunction ... just saying 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Because?

[cameronian]

Why ?

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

So?

[cameronian]

Perhaps ... but not necessarily.

[Leman]

........and you appear to have acquired an Irish accent.

Happy now?

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Maybe...

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Perhaps not ?

[cameronian]

... then again ...

[mollinary]

For Heaven's sake, guys, is this horse not dead enough for you yet?

Mollinary

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Is it? 🐴

[Ithoriel]

C'etait une pâté de cheval et d'alouette, n'est pas?*


*Apologies to those whose native language is French if I am misremembering the phrase regularly used by a French Assistant at school and garbling the language!!