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[Nemo]

The Anglo-French navy consortium announces it's rousing motto in English.

'To the water.  This is the hour.'

Or, in French [said loudly for full effect], 'A l'eau, c'est l'heure.'

 

[derekwarner]

 'The water, it's time'................according to the English to French translation ..so is this then bath time on Friday evenings?.............. ........Derek

[GAZOU]

'The water, it's time'................du RICARD

[Nemo]

EH?  Just take it as written - the joke is the point! 

[BarryM]

I think it's gone right over some heads and you have to spell it out to them.

'A l'eau, c'est l'heure.'  phonetically = 'Allo Sailor.   

Now do you get it?

BM

[Colin Bishop]

That's a bit hard going....

[meechingman]

You have to practise by reading the book 'Mots d'heures, gousses, rames. - The d'Antin Manuscripts' to get these.


The book is nonsensical French, but 'translates' into English nursery rhymes when read aloud at a normal speed. The title is 'Mother Goose Rhymes'.


'Et qui rit des curies d'Oc?' - Hickory Dickory Dock
'Un petit d'un petit s'etonne aux Halles' - Humpty Dumpty Sat on a Wall


And so on.... this was a favourite of our French teacher at school. We'd have to translate the French properly and we'd all giggle when a visiting 'real' French teacher was asked to read the rhymes. They wouldn't get it, saying things like "C'est ridicule! It makes no sense."

[Nemo]

Oui - exactement!

[Nemo]

A new Middle East crisis erupted last night as Dubai Television was refused permission to broadcast 'The Flintstones'.

A spokesman for the channel said 'A claim was made that people in Dubai would not understand the humour, but we know for a fact that people in Abu Dhabi Do.'

[Nemo]

An elderly man is stopped by the police around 1 a.m. and is asked where he is going at that time of night.

The man replies, "I am going to a lecture about alcohol abuse and the effects it has on the human body."


The officer then asks, "Really? Who is giving that sort of lecture at this time of night?"



" My wife."

[warspite]

So - I geet it non - a case of allo allo policemen - looking for a bum, or the Madonna wit the big boobies 

[Klunk]

'The water, it's time'................according to the English to French translation ..so is this then bath time on Friday evenings?.............. ........Derek

Do the french actually take baths then?

[GAZOU]

A shower = 25 liters of water a bath 200 liters of water

We protect the resource

[Klunk]

That's one big bath then. I bathe in 1" Of water.equivalent of   10 liters of water. I'm still in 1976 mode!

[Nemo]

 And here's me thinking it was just a great one-liner!  
'A l'eau, c'est l'heures.'

[GAZOU]

 

Klunk
Fill the bathtub without putting of water   

[Bob K]

The primary purpose of a bath tub is for ballast testing model boats.
I thought everyone knew that ?