"I'm not racist, I just dislike France" - Me After Wales receive another drubbing in the Five Nations.

Mark McFadden
Subject: Hatred of the French
Sent: 20 January 1999 00:29

Cribbing from the Reader's Digest version of Unaussprechlichen La:nden, Davide Mana invoked the "F" word, summoning up what should be smacked down:
> A few other things to put on the bill of the French:
> - colonies in the right places (Indocine, North Africa, Guyane)
> - big shot occultists (St. Germain)
> - masons
> - Paris underground/underground Paris
> - Averoigne
> - Poictesme (check the Dreamland connection)
> - Belphagor, the Ghost of the Louvre
>
> If the Brits have PISCES, the French _must_ have something similar
> (if for nothing else, just not to stay behind).
> Do we know something about Dave's "Men with Gauloises"?

Mark McFadden
Yo, Canada! I'm keeping an eye on you bilingual bastards. :P


Mark McFadden
Sent: 29 March 1999 23:45
Subject: France
In a message dated 99-03-29 16:17:47 EST, you write:

> Just to let you know that the french edition of Delta Green has just been
> released. Now everyone can know, even those who can't read english....
Damn, there goes the neighborhood. ;P

Mark McFadden
"I pay good money to eat at a supposedly fine restaurant, and you can't even keep snails off of the food! This wouldn't even be a problem if you'd let us have those little ham and cheese sandwiches we wanted in the first place."
      Steve Martin
     The Jerk


Mark McFadden
Subject: France
In a message dated 3/17/99 3:09:21 PM Pacific Standard Time, doctor.dee@iol.it writes:

> Fact possibly is , the basic clown makeup is a
> grotesque distortion of a human face; it takes just a little to read it as
> grotesque/scary instead of grotesque/funny


Could this be at the root of the nearly universal hatred of mimes? Not only are they annoying when they follow you around (like a dybbuk) aping your every move, but we're hard-wired to stomp the pasty-faced, rubber-mouthed Marcel Marceau (there's another one on your scoresheet France! I'm making a list and checking it twice) spawn, toss them in an invisible box that gets smaller and smaller until you can smoosh them like the coleopterans they are.
Or not.

Mark McFadden
Uses words, dammit.


Robert Thomas
Sent: 09 April 1999 18:36
Subject: Re: DG: Losing something in the translation (was Re: KW Jeter)

any way just to contribute something to the discussion of losing things in the discussion / translation, a book I'm reading at the moment about Egyptology describes the origin of the term:

cartouche

which was coined by French archeologists under Napoleon. Given that cartouche can mean in French cartridge or carton and both can be said to describe a cartouche in its accepted "english" sense the context with which a person looks at an object / book / person is as has been said vital.

Rob

who's with Mark McFadden here, and doesn't trust the French; the only reason they built the channel tunnel was to have somewhere new to hide the next time they get their arses whipped :-)


Mark McFadden
Sent: 09 April 1999 20:20
Subject: Re: DG: Losing something in the translation (was Re: KW Jeter)

You guys are trying to get me killed, aren't you? I love the link on the Emerald hammer site, "Mark McFadden hates the French!" You're gonna make me the Salman Rushdie of the DGML.
Now I have to sniff for tell-tale body odor before opening doors or starting my car. ;P
(That was a joke! I kid because I love. Truly. Everyone knows our Gallic compadres are the sweetest-smelling and -natured primates in Christiandom. Why check their plumbing, they got a whole separate fixture designed to put off putting your whole body under a shower for as long as possible. Uh, I mean, to keep your nether parts squeaky clean.)
I can't help it! It's...it's...a disease! Yeah! I suffer from Delayed Francophobic Stress Syndrome. I'm the victim here.

Mark McFadden
Found Picayune butts and some runny cheese drippings behind my house, but it's the empty Molson's and donut sprinkles that has me worried


Graeme Price
Sent: 09 April 1999 21:08
Subject: Re: DG: Losing something in the translation (was Re: KW Jeter)

Mark "Intimate Toupe" McFadden wrote:
> Found Picayune butts and some runny cheese drippings behind my house, but
> it's the empty Molson's and donut sprinkles that has me worried
Hey Mark, don't worry about it. I figure you're probably pretty safe as far as DGSE's concerned... unless, of course, you have a Greenpeace bumper sticker.


Robert Thomas
Sent: 09 April 1999 21:49
Subject: Re: DG: Losing something in the translation (was Re: KW Jeter)

Hello All,

Mark writes:
> You guys are trying to get me killed, aren't you? I love the link on the
> Emerald hammer site, "Mark McFadden hates the French!" You're gonna make me
> the Salman Rushdie of the DGML.

Who?

Moi et Phil?
> I can't help it! It's...it's...a disease! Yeah! I suffer from Delayed
> Francophobic Stress Syndrome. I'm the victim here.
Now that would make for an interesting insanity in CoC :-) could vary it with whoever was the nation of the week opposing DG result one weird party who can only travel to certain places on certain airlines because they've never been shot at by their governments or their planes have never crashed, (Quantas in Rain Man, oops spoke to soon), could be appropriate for EH as well given that the notorious French run INTERPOL will be getting involved :-)

Libretto Officer 1: "So what is McFadden up to now"
Libretto Officer 2: "Ee's in ze shower."
Libretto Officer 1: "Turn on all the taps in his house and flush the toilets. Third Degree burns should stop his anti-French rants."
I'm off to the pub.

later

Rob.

who knows that the French are monitoring McFadden but didn't know the Canadians had gotten into the act.


Phil Ward
Sent: 10 April 1999 08:39
Subject: RE: DG: Losing something in the translation

Heh, well it was so funny and it agrees so closely with my own (not _too_ serious) views about French (although I do love _France_, it's just the people tend to wind me up), so I couldn't resist putting it up.

And now of course I'll have to add this thread too :)

Of course, we must remember that although Interpol is HQ'd in France, it apparently run by an English-man at the moment... one Raymon E Kendall, who has apparently been there for 14 years, according to the US NCB Web Site. So, how come the French haven't noticed the bug in his head then? Eh? Eh?


Mark McFadden
Sent: 11 April 1999 12:36
Subject: Re: DG: Losing something in the translation (was Re: KW Jeter)
> So, how come the French haven't noticed the bug in his head then? Eh? Eh?
Probably waiting for it to get big enough to eat. With butter and garlic.
And another thing, what have they got against ice? Try to get a decent anydamnthing on-the-rocks and they give you some gray sliver of something chipped off a refrigerator coil and dare you to ask for more. They just haven't realized that civilization is defined by ice and the ease of access to it.

Although the UK doesn't offer ice up front (they prefer to reserve their refrigeration for character building showers in public school) they will produce it when asked politely and without a discernible 'tude.
Spaniards know a good thing when they see it, and some of my favorite memories of Europe begin with a lazy lunch of chilled gazpacho and sangria and aaaalllll the good looking girls in Europe with one week of vacation and a gratifying determination to have some fun. Now.
Hehe. I claimed I was Canadian and avoided all the John Wayne/McDonald's/"you Americans think the whole world is" horseshit. Just be polite and don't talk about guns.
Damn. That would explain the Molson's.

Mark McFadden
Still steamed from the shower.


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