http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39176 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sun, 19 May 2013 17:59:24 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39176#post-111251 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:43:21 +0000 StoopyDeGunt 111251@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>La plume de ma tante! </p> <p>Est sur la table! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39176#post-111250 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:39:44 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 111250@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Bon </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39176#post-111249 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:28:58 +0000 Gourd Almighty 111249@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Exactement le memo comme Sinnick, avec knobs on. Cinque ***** pour vous. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39176#post-111239 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:40:31 +0000 Sinnick 111239@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Excellent FP, Des. The world doesn't have enough Franglais.<br /> Terminez the work &amp; keep writing ici. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39176#post-111230 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:49:26 +0000 dvo4fun 111230@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>fine fp Des - go on back to work! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39176#post-111228 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:46:50 +0000 Stan Laurel 111228@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>A bit too Frenchy, peut-être? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39176#post-111227 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:45:49 +0000 Des Custard 111227@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I love you guys! We must meet up for a pint sometime. Thanks to the Ed team for adding suitable Gallic flourishes to my rushed effort. Work is v heavy at present so am going to disappear up my own spreadsheets again.... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39176#post-111217 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:50:47 +0000 rickwestwell 111217@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>A l'eau, c'est l'heure! </p> <p>Formidable. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39176#post-111212 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:21:53 +0000 Golgo13 111212@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Excellent. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=39176#post-111193 Sun, 26 Feb 2012 20:39:33 +0000 Des Custard 111193@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The French had their first good laugh in ages last night as a low budget film by veteran director Jean-Paul Gauloises-Bout-Filtre swept the board at the 84th Academy Awards, winning all ten categories for which it had been nominated.</p> <p>The film, ‘Hollywood disparaît en haut son propre cul’, was originally devised to inject a slightly less pompous note at last year’s Cannes Festival, but to the amazement of the entire French film industry, American and British observers swallowed the whole conceit hook, line et sinker.</p> <p>‘You would think that a culture which could come up with something as cutting as ‘The Producers’ would find our tatty piece of homage mildly amusing,’ said Bout-Filtre today, ‘but they just loved it for all the wrong reasons. </p> <p>‘First, we did it in black and white, which as everyone knows is shite, or merde as we say in France. Then, because English speakers are so merde at languages, we got round the whole problem of subtitles by making it a silent film, which is even more merde. Why did Hollywood introduce talkies in the 1920s and Technicolor in the 1930s? Parce que the altertnatives were merde, that’s why mon ami.’</p> <p>The director went on to say how only Anglo-Saxon sentimentalists would take a film with a performing dog as its star to their hearts, before describing how a full five-hour documentary version of the making of the film was breaking box office records in France. </p> <p>‘The documentary version is more the excruciating length that French filmgoers like,’ said Bout-Filtre. ‘We really ratchet up the satire with readings of Proust and Voltaire and with the Oscars ceremony acted out in mime by white-faced clowns. No, of course we don’t take all that existential merde seriously. It’s all a big pipi-take. Didn’t it ever occur to you?’ </p>