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Post by Pea on Dec 8, 2011 10:39:02 GMT -8
SHUT THE FUCK UP about Lennon's death if you weren't alive when it happened. I swear to god my Facebook is flooded with 20 something year olds crying about something they didn't even experience and will never understand. Then again, people are still caught up about that Jesus guy dying so what do I know... Wait, what happened? Did John Lennon come back to life, then die again? One would think.
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Post by StormyPinkness on Dec 8, 2011 10:43:24 GMT -8
Every other Canada is a bullshit Canada!
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Post by alex on Dec 8, 2011 11:08:58 GMT -8
SHUT THE FUCK UP about Lennon's death if you weren't alive when it happened. I swear to god my Facebook is flooded with 20 something year olds crying about something they didn't even experience and will never understand. Then again, people are still caught up about that Jesus guy dying so what do I know... This reminds me of something funny and since we are in the Every Thread Thread here we go... I was in French Immersion school for a stint back in junior high (does that mean anything to Americans? All french speaking classes, junior high is grades 6-9) and man oh man did we aver read some crazy books in that class. Just as you did in English class we would also have novel studies. Only the novels had to be in french, at a grade appropriate level and had to be written by a french Canadian. There aren't a whole lot of these in Canada so I take it the book selection is rather slim. For instance we once read this book called "Le Sect des Assasin", which is "The Cult of the Assasins". These books typically involved 10 different plot lines and read like someone transcribing a 5 year old's dream, "and then the dinosaurs came to help me, but Superman helped me instead, and then the birds were talking to Superman but Superman wasn't being very nice to the birds so I flew away on my jet pack instead". This "Sect des Assasin" was about the assassination of this John Lennon type rock star (he was called John Goodman in the book. No shit.) by a cult of androgynous assassins. Yes they were androgynous, as you would expect. The story's first hundred pages revolve around the main character wanting to make it as a rock star just like his idol, John Goodman. The are so many unnecessary details about him playing shows, signing contracts, band members quitting, and then out of nowhere John Goodman is assassinated and we find out that that is what the story is about. So our main dude becomes a journalist (why not?) and begins to investigate Goodman's death. Of course we end up in secret back rooms full of androgynous assassins who not only are responsible for Goodman's death, but ALL of the political and cultural assassination that have shaped our world. Another plot line develops about his uncle being the head of the cult or something and that they have been waiting for him this whole time as he is the chosen one. French, what are you gonna do? Was this the book they based Zoolander on?
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Dec 8, 2011 11:25:58 GMT -8
^^^^
No, Zoolander has a much too concise and focused narrative to be taken from a junior high french novel.
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Post by emptyfox on Dec 8, 2011 13:07:55 GMT -8
I was French immersion from kindergarten to grade 12. I suck at speaking French.
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Dec 8, 2011 13:09:21 GMT -8
Did you ever have to read La Cavernale? The only thing good about French immersion was Tin Tin comics!
EDIT: That's pronounced "Tay-n Tay-n" for you english speakin' fools.
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Post by alex on Dec 8, 2011 13:09:40 GMT -8
Asterix!
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Dec 8, 2011 13:10:15 GMT -8
Yeah, they were le dope too.
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Post by weenie on Dec 8, 2011 13:13:51 GMT -8
I'm a le frenchie too! Well, I have a certificate that says I can speak french but it's not entirely accurate. Or at all accurate.
Also, I just downloaded ebook versions of all the Asterixes. There is so much humour in there that went way over my head as a kid. Very funny stuff.
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Post by emptyfox on Dec 8, 2011 13:14:15 GMT -8
I remember having to read Candide and L'Etranger mostly because they bored me to death. Other than that I couldn't tell you pretty much anything else I read. The answer is probably.
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Dec 8, 2011 13:16:04 GMT -8
You mean "Peut etre"
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Dec 8, 2011 13:17:47 GMT -8
I'm a le frenchie too! Well, I have a certificate that says I can speak french but it's not entirely accurate. Or at all accurate. Also, I just downloaded ebook versions of all the Asterixes. There is so much humour in there that went way over my head as a kid. Very funny stuff. There's an Asterix movie out there with Roberto Begnini and Monica Bellucci. Actually they have a couple. The comics are better, very good ebook pick up!
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Post by davers on Dec 8, 2011 13:52:59 GMT -8
Damn I had no idea so many people on this board went to French emersion. You guys mid as well make a french thread and insult us anglo assholes.
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Post by alex on Dec 8, 2011 14:02:06 GMT -8
I had a french class virtually every school day from the 4th to 10th grade, and I likely couldn't even put together a single coherent sentence at this point.
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Post by Pea on Dec 8, 2011 14:04:42 GMT -8
Well congratulations. You all somehow found a way to go off topic in this thread.
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Post by StormyPinkness on Dec 8, 2011 14:17:22 GMT -8
They turned it into the Canada thread.
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Post by alex on Dec 8, 2011 14:18:15 GMT -8
...but I even made sure to say "10th grade" instead of "grade 10"!
There's just no pleasing you Americanos
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Post by StormyPinkness on Dec 8, 2011 14:18:18 GMT -8
Once I called a French Canadian guy Canadian and he got really mad at me. I am not Canadian, I am French Canadian!
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Post by alex on Dec 8, 2011 14:18:46 GMT -8
he probably deserved it
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Post by Pea on Dec 8, 2011 14:20:25 GMT -8
From here on out you will all refer to me as a Scottish American.
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