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sorry, french has left my head

laissez is....?
(got the rest)

(ah sod it tinsels chummily, Fri 4 Nov 2005, 11:15, archived)

let them eat some cake

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olivier8 (euroloon), Fri 4 Nov 2005, 11:17, archived)

someone give that man 5 pounds

of haggis

(ah sod it tinsels chummily, Fri 4 Nov 2005, 11:18, archived)

thanks

will keep eat for later if you don't mind

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olivier8 (euroloon), Fri 4 Nov 2005, 11:20, archived)

~~some~~

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mrlogic is copying your beard, Fri 4 Nov 2005, 11:20, archived)

du = some

(in that case)

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olivier8 (euroloon), Fri 4 Nov 2005, 11:28, archived)

but he's saying

"let them eat cake" a quote oft misattributed to Marie Antoinette, but actually from Jean-Jaques Rousseau's book, Confessions.

edit: and google agrees with me, so i must be right because google can only tell the truth

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mrlogic is copying your beard, Fri 4 Nov 2005, 11:38, archived)

I feel that you are arguing with a Frenchman :)

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Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Fri 4 Nov 2005, 11:43, archived)

i feel that you might be right

but all I'm saying is what it's saying is let them eat cake, like people thought Marie Antoinette said when the people had no bread, then the people burned down her palace and the people cut her head off. he's arguing about the literal words, I'm arguing about the meaning of the words. I feel that I am superior because of this. I may now go and have a cup of tea to celebrate.

none of it really matters anyway, it's not like we're arguing politics or anything, and besides, he's french, it's up to him to decapitate his leader

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mrlogic is copying your beard, Fri 4 Nov 2005, 11:50, archived)

i didn't know about the Marie antoinette speech

and now i'm a bit lost in translation..

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olivier8 (euroloon), Fri 4 Nov 2005, 14:34, archived)