[SOC] And now we have bulldogs...

[Gwen Patton]

Monsieur and Madame Thibault were the central figures in the French classes
I got in grade school, back in the 60's. It was the "Voix et images de
France" series, and it had filmstrips with records that went along with the
book.

https://youtu.be/IcqKYQF1Fws?si=VpQlzQWuWp4pQAg4

After a while, you get the characters and situations mixed together, and
you start talking where the cat is, and you say it's at the beach -- it's
tall! (Ou est le chat? Au bord de la mer. C'est haut!) It was the CAT that
was supposed to be on the roof, not Monsieur Thibault. HE was at the beach,
not on the roof. It was all fun and games until you slipped at the French
restaurant and said "Je voudrais une CRAP," and everyone titters at
you...and Garçon was giving you the stink-eye and suggesting you might look
in "le salle de bain". (A kid did that when my high school French class
went into Chicago to visit a REAL French restaurant. He was the class
clown, and did stuff like asking the teacher how to pronounce the word for
"seal", the animal. The word, for your edification, is *phoque*, and is
pronounced close to what you would expect. Titter, titter.)

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73,
Gwen, NG3P


On Mon, Aug 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM F5PBL <f5pbl at f5pbl.fr> wrote:

>
> > Monsieur Thibault travaille au bar où nous formons les nouveaux
> opérateurs en code Morse pour qu'ils deviennent de bons barmans.
>
> Et pendant ce temps-là, Brian est dans la cuisine...
>
> For the non-Frenchies here (because I think this one can be only
> understood by Frenchies) : "Brian is in the kitchen" is
> part of one of the first English lessons we (Frenchies) had at school back
> in the 80's, using "Speak English", the book
> used for the 1st year of learning English at school:
>
> - Where is Brian?
> - Brian is in the kitchen.
>
> Cf.
> https://www.mybrian.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/mybrian-article-traduction-anglais-4-1024x429.gif
>
> 72 & less,
> Claude, F5PBL
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