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[Damini]

Bonjour peons! Ca va?

I have just returned from gh3y Paris, where I have eaten Ostrich, smelt tramp and been to the Erotic art museum.

Aren't you just glad I shared?

What did I miss?

 

[caLLous]

The ability to make intelligble thread names?

 

[Damini]

Bah, that all added to the mystery and suspense. Besides, my brain hurts from trying to make up the french words for everything all weekend. My active imagination and me end up talking in tongues.

 

[Disco PhoolCat]

Originally posted by Damini
What did I miss?

A nice relaxing outdoor barbie/nature/pissup/watersports thang...

 

[Summo]

Hazzah! Welcome home, the pair of yer. Nice to see you're back safe an' everythin'.

Am00sing stories, please!

(Have a rest first, though. 5 mins)

 

[caLLous]

That is one sexeh sig, Summo! How very "warez" of you.

 

[Summo]

I nicked it off someone in the DAoC forums. Purdeh... waveh...

 

[caLLous]

Feef!

Anyway, c'mon Damini, tell all...

 

[Damini]

Actually, it was all rather tame and wholesome, compared to my usual jaunts. No death threats, and whilst we did dine from the endangered species menu, that was about as racey as we got. Serves me right for thinking Ostriche was just a fancy way of writing beef... The erotic art museum was certainly, well, phalic is probably the best word. We went to Moulin Rouge, and got as far as asking how much it costs before hitting the reception lady over the head with a french stick and running into the distance. £60 to see jiggling titties? I'll just poke my head down my top and jump about, thank you very much. The black eyes are fading, and we used the sixty quid each we saved to go eat food and be generally tourist like.

Our hotel room was wonderfully tacky, and watching Stargate the Series dubbed into French is an experience not to be missed. We went and watched Jim Carreys new film, The Majestic, with french subtitles. For those that haven't heard of it, that's probably because its an international joke played on the french, and it was actually meant to be sold in a package deal to UK Living, along with a film about a mother who adopts two algerian children who were raised by wolves, and then struggles to protect them from her alcoholic ex husband who wants to sell them to buy hookers. But it was feel good, despite being laughable, and a fun time was had by all.

Anyway, can't think of anything else really... I'm starving and onion soup is rank.

 

[Moving Target]

Originally posted by Damini
I'll just poke my head down my top and jump about, thank you very much.

Please don't

 

[Stazbumpa]

Everyone has the right to pronounce foreign names as they see fit. I believe Winston Churchill said that.


I hope you followed suit

 

[xane]

Originally posted by Damini
Besides, my brain hurts from trying to make up the french words for everything all weekend.

You mean all le weekend

 

[Furr]

I dont hate all the french, only the ones i have met

 

[mr.Blacky]

no "tout le weekend"
and please not all the frence sentences people learned in school caus I only remember a few

 

[Testin da Cable]

Originally posted by Damini
Bonjour peons! Ca va?

I have just returned from gh3y Paris, where I have eaten Ostrich, smelt tramp and been to the Erotic art museum.

Aren't you just glad I shared?

What did I miss?

welcome back

imo ostrich tastes like mouldy steak. how was yours?

 

[Disco PhoolCat]

Originally posted by Mr.Blackshirt
no "tout le weekend"
and please not all the frence sentences people learned in school caus I only remember a few

Le bicyclette et dans la table, Ou est la sange?

 

[mr.Blacky]

Je ne parlez pas francais, je parle anglais, neerlandais (sp?) et un petit allemagne.

 

[Moving Target]

Bah, I hate french. It makes my brain cell go into meltdown.

 

[mr.Blacky]

well you are safe then, no cells so no meltdown

 

[Summo]

Originally posted by Disco PhoolCat
Le bicyclette et dans la table, Ou est la sange?

Le Sange et sur la branche!

 

[FatBusinessman]

Il conduit l'autobus!
Et Sandra Bullock est dans l'autobus!

 

[Summo]

l y a une bombe dans l'autobus. Il faut conduire l'autobus plus de cinquante kilomètres par l'heure...

 

[FatBusinessman]

Ok, that's all the French for this evening.




However, I also did German at school...

 

[Summo]

Yeah, right. The only examples of German you have are from Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus...

 

[mr.Blacky]

Ach nein keine deutsch gerne, die deutsche sind geschikte (?) leute aber deutsch is shreklich (?)

 

[Summo]

Ich habe es nicht verstanden. :/

Oh no none German gladly, the German are geschikte (?) people however German is shreklich

And neither did Google.

 

[Skyler]

Sounds like ya had fun Damini!

but what about the fishies!?

 

[Xavier]

floating on top i reckon

 

[Damini]

That was what we expected, but they lived. In a grumpy and unenthuasiastic fashion.

 

[WPKenny]

Heh. The fish survived. Although it didn't look like they ate much of the floaty (well, not so floaty) food block that was meant to last them the weekend.

Paris was a good experience overall.
The thing was that I was sent over their "on company business" so if they asked me to do something while I was over there, I didn't really have much cause to complain. We wrote off friday just getting our bearings and getting all my work stuff out of the way. We managed to get to see the Louvre at night, which was nice.

Saturday we (I) took time getting out of bed. We were only out of the Hotel five mins, just about to get on the Metro (Paris version of the Tube) when I got a call from work.
Bang goes two hours of what was supposed to be a day completely to ourselves.
We get to the Eiffel Tower around 3pm just AFTER the restaurant we'd had recommended to us had closed!

But we put a brave face on and did all the touristy stuff, as Damini said.

We had a good time overall and the best part is it hardly cost much at all cos it was a "working weekend". Nice.