To lighten the mood - joke du jour

[Trufflehound]

Nice. I think 'souper' means evening meal (like supper).

You could be right. My brain switched off at soup...

 

[The Large One]

Deux mains sous P = Demain souper (soup tomorrow)

Ga is "big G little A" or in French G grand, a petit.

= J'ai grand appetit. (I'm hungry.)

Close enough.

'Souper' is supper.

 

[Kumquat]

Wasn't the famous Del Boy one "Bonnet de douche Rodney, Bonnet de douche".

 

[life on mars 73]

Anyone recognise this ??

Un petit d'un petit
S'étonne aux Halles
Un petit d'un petit
Ah! degrés te fallent
Indolent qui ne sort cesse
Indolent qui ne se mène
Qu'importe un petit d'un petit
Tout Gai de Reguennes.

 

[Kumquat]

Anyone recognise this ??

Un petit d'un petit
S'étonne aux Halles
Un petit d'un petit
Ah! degrés te fallent
Indolent qui ne sort cesse
Indolent qui ne se mène
Qu'importe un petit d'un petit
Tout Gai de Reguennes.

Humpty Dumpty I think.

 

[HovaGirl]

Vous êtes tous fous, mes amis

 

[Jimmy Come Lately]

I made up a sort-of-joke while cooking yesterday and would welcome the considered feedback of NSC's resident experts.

"I'm making a brine, but the pesky salt crystals just won't dissolve. C'mon guys. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem."

Unfortunately it's a sort-of-joke that's been knocking around in chemistry circles for long enough that variants of it are available on t-shirts. Partly because it's what counts as a good science joke.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

C'est tres impressionnant qu'il y a tant de gens ici qui comprennent et ecrivent le francais.

But where do you get to do the accents.

 

[dougdeep]

But where do you get to do the accents.

Héré

 

[Titanic]

C'est tres impressionnant qu'il y a tant de gens ici qui comprennent et ecrivent le francais.

But where do you get to do the accents.

Pas ici.

 

[Titanic]

http://french.about.com/od/writing/ss/typeaccents_7.htm

 

[Acker79]

C'est tres impressionnant qu'il y a tant de gens ici qui comprennent et ecrivent le francais.

But where do you get to do the accents.

If you're using an iPad hold the relevant letter down for a selection of accented alternatives (also works for some of the punctuation buttons).

If you are using a standard key board sometimes alt/shift and alt with the letter will work, I think, if to there are various number codes, if you hold alt and type using the number pad you get the letter. If you open up the character map (start menu, accessories or accessibility or something) you can find the code for every character in a given font. Highlight the character and at the bottom of the character map window is its code.

You can also copy and paste either from the character map, or from someone else's post.

 

[Mr H]

It's very difficult to do a French accent using the written word as opposed to the spoken word. Although you could probably do it if your name was Joey Barton.

 

[Sussex on Leith]

Unfortunately it's a sort-of-joke that's been knocking around in chemistry circles for long enough that variants of it are available on t-shirts. Partly because it's what counts as a good science joke.

Ah, well. Back to the drawing board then

 

[Kumquat]

Good moaning! I was just pissing through the town's queer.

 

[Trufflehound]

C'est tres impressionnant qu'il y a tant de gens ici qui comprennent et ecrivent le francais.

But where do you get to do the accents.

Vous n'avez jamais heard of Alt-keys?

Alt-130, pour example, vous donne: é
Alt-133 = à
Alt-135 = ç

Et so on...

Et le plus useful pour moi aujourd'hui: Alt-0128 = €

 

[Kumquat]

Vous n'avez jamais heard of Alt-keys?

Alt-130, pour example, vous donne: é
Alt-133 = à
Alt-135 = ç

Et so on...

Et le plus useful pour moi aujourd'hui: Alt-0128 = €

Merci. This was noveau to moi.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Humpty Dumpty I think.

To many "petit"s [SMALL] in there, plus no sign of a chaval ... kings HORSES - so can't be Humpty Dumpty .....

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Vous n'avez jamais heard of Alt-keys?

Alt-130, pour example, vous donne: é
Alt-133 = à
Alt-135 = ç

Et so on...

Et le plus useful pour moi aujourd'hui: Alt-0128 = €

Thanks - and to ACKER above as well. This is a genuine revelation

If anybody else is trying to make this work, I discovered (found it on google) you have to use the numeric keypad and it won't work with the numbers across the top of the keypad.

C'est bien, ça!

 

[Stat Brother]

Vous n'avez jamais heard of Alt-keys?

Alt-130, pour example, vous donne: é
Alt-133 = à
Alt-135 = ç

Et so on...

Et le plus useful pour moi aujourd'hui: Alt-0128 = €

Wow - or should that exclamation of excitement in French be - wöw