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Byron, did you mean ouevre or something similarly French Canadian looking? Potatoes and apples may be in your soup pot, yet!

Well I certainly didn't mean ordure, but I did mean that stuff wot we eat before the main course, or in some restaurants, main coarse.






"Coming Matron....I'm just chatting to my imagery friend..."

Main coarse is ordure. Finesse (in these tricky matters) is odeur.

Wait just one minute here. I just saw something that requires clarification. I may be your friend, however, I am NOT imaginery.

Damn! You did it agian. I'm your imagery friend? Like I'm in a camera? Did someone paint a picture of me? You did? Oh, how seat. I mean sweat. I mean eat, teat, tea, ate. Oh, that reminds me. 4:45 Tea-time!

hors d'ouevre - methinks. Or something close. In Canada, all product labelling has to be in both official languages. So, most of us anglophiles/phones learn to read French by reading cereal boxes and the like. For eg. mais = corn and the best mais is Gratis. Cereal with a lot of sucre in it has more Gratis stuff than Bran Buds.

linda_lakeside wrote:hors d'ouevre - methinks.

Ta! I could say that my dictionary is a common variety of its ilk and as such, pronounciation is common as well, followed by similar printing, therefore, I couldn't find horses doovers, cos the 'H' 'as been dropped from the dictionary. As in 'enery 'iggins. Now that's what I call a convoluted wrigglie to get out of bloody awful spelling of my words.

Actually, many of us 'Anglos' call them 'horse doovers' because the accent sounds so stupid from a non-French person. Most of the waiters out this way are English anyway. Horse doovers, they understand. Hors d'ouerve, I'm not so sure.

How pleasing to read that our doovers, horses for the use of, have crossed oceans and relatively humpy mountains, to become an integral part of ex-colonial, non-domestic, face stuffing.
English waiters are a rare breed over here.
You can sit and wait for ages and never see one. That's why fish and chip shops are so popular. Most of those are Chinese fish and chip shops anyway. Unless you like to go to an Indian Curry House for pan splattering, enamel offerings
Albert prefers kittens. That's his new mantra. Even says it in his sleep. "ZZzzzzzzz....Albert...zzzzzzz --->.<---......prefers kitte...zzzzz...ns..zz."
The eagle eyed amongst you may have spotted THAT sneaky full stop I got in with Albert's mantra. It's the eighth one along from the left.


Own up!!!




Who counted?

I have spent nearly 40 minutes typing replies to corespondents on this thread, and when I clicked"submit", the message disappeared.
There's much to reply to, but I'm too pissed of by my computer.
I'll try later.
Andrew (in an angry mood).

Byron, you had arrow-type-things pointing at the PERIOD, how could anyone miss it?

Andrew,

Things like that happen to me all the time and I get "'pissed OF my computer as well". C'est la vie say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell.

linda_lakeside wrote:Byron, you had arrow-type-things pointing at the PERIOD, how could anyone miss it?

You wouldn't believe it!

I missed it myself until Albert woke up and told me himself. Who put the arrows in? spookie...........
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Andrew, slip into something less angry-red and downtown-blues. A pale green with Guiness overtones will do the trick.

Byron, would you mind (for the purpose of clarification) repeating your last post to me backwards and in the Basque language please. Perhaps that is the key to understanding what the hell you're talking about.