Re: Joyon and pompiers

[tonyran]

Re: Joyon and pompiers

Faire le pompier also means delivering a blow job...........could be a contributory factor to the shipwreck?

 

[jonjo]

Re: Joyon and pompiers

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Faire le pompier also means

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Are you sure? I thought the French used an "inspecting the broom handle" analogy.

 

[Sybarite]

Re: Joyon and pompiers

"Pipe"


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[cindersailor]

Re: Joyon and pompiers

"Ceci n'est pas une pipe"

 

[jhr]

Re: Joyon and pompiers

I once asked a French friend what he meant by "faire le pipe" - I wasn't familiar with the phrase, honest, guv.

His response was that a literal translation was "make the pipe" but that, in this particular case, the pipe was made of a revolutionary organic compound that was normally soft and malleable but which hardened when it came into contact with human saliva. I was just about to say that it sounded like a load of old rubbish, when the penny dropped..............