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WCDT strips 4231-4235 (30th of March to 3rd April, 2020)
Theta9:
--- Quote from: Stoutfellow on 31 Mar 2020, 11:56 ---
--- Quote from: Theta9 on 31 Mar 2020, 11:44 ---I always say "...if you'll pardon my French" whenever I use a phrase such as coup d'etat or raison d'etre.
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In my experience, the phrase is more often associated with the use of four-letter Anglo-Saxon.
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I'm aware of that; that's the joke - that I associate it with actual French rather than Anglo-Saxon.
sitnspin:
--- Quote from: Theta9 on 31 Mar 2020, 12:53 ---
--- Quote from: Stoutfellow on 31 Mar 2020, 11:56 ---
--- Quote from: Theta9 on 31 Mar 2020, 11:44 ---I always say "...if you'll pardon my French" whenever I use a phrase such as coup d'etat or raison d'etre.
--- End quote ---
In my experience, the phrase is more often associated with the use of four-letter Anglo-Saxon.
--- End quote ---
I'm aware of that; that's the joke - that I associate it with actual French rather than Anglo-Saxon.
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Explaining the joke makes it funnier. This is just a hard fact of the universe.
Theta9:
Also I stole it ("...if you'll pardon my French") from Neil Gaiman, who used it in the story "Keepsakes and Treasures" (in the collection Fragile Things).
Tova:
I'm appreciating just how well written the Faye/Bubbles storyline was.
Mr_Rose:
--- Quote from: Tova on 31 Mar 2020, 15:12 ---I'm appreciating just how well written the Faye/Bubbles storyline was.
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Yeah, people were still denying the inevitable right until the strip where they kissed for the first time even as other people had metaphorically already ordered gift baskets, set up the champagne glass pyramid, and hung the Arbor Day banner.
This time it’s more a question of who’s going to be more surprised by the first kiss, Elliot, Clinton, or Brun…
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