How to change my user name ?

[Straf]

I was hoping you'd turn out to be Gerard Deppy-wotsit or Antoine de Caunes.

[ThomasR]

You mean that guy ?
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[Diamond]

It the Great A'tuin (sex unknown) did drown it would be a turtle disaster.

Wow... jut wow.

I don't even...

[Redrobes]

You mean that guy ?

LOL - You gotta love Antoine...

[Straf]

Gérard Languedepute?

[ThomasR]

The one and only I hesitated with "Pine d'huître" and "Didier l'embrouille".

[Straf]

I looked up some of his characters. I wish I could understand French better because only knowing how to tell someone that Jean-Paul and Claudette are in the garden with the dog seems somehow insufficient to fully appreciate the comedy in the video clips I found.

[Mouse]

Ah! the very famous 'Longman's Audio-visual French for Beginners' that all us Brits get fed at school, eh? How well I know that particular phrase!

Trouble is that the course itself was soooo incredibly boring the class used to play up all the time, so anyone who actually wanted to learn French didn't stand a chance!

The British teaching system has a lot to answer for. If only we had been given something that was a bit more interesting to read about in French we'd have all been bilingual by the age of 10! I mean, who really wants to know that the teacher left his glasses on the bus, or that the family is going on a picnic? Where were all the pirate stories... or the adventures?

EDIT: I also remember the very long and piercing 'bleeeeeeeep' noise that told the teacher to press the button on the projector to show us the next slide. Its a miracle that we don't speak French with periodic bleeeeeeep sounds thrown in between sentences as punctuation! LOL!

[Azélor]

They teach the languages by using mundane bits of life so we can be functional in that language in ordinary life. I supposed they just didn't know that some would also be interested in piracy. It's a shame that careers like pirate and vampire hunter receive so little attention. My great aunt had a book about exorcism. Sadly I think I got rid of it.

[ThomasR]

In France, we learn how to tell that Brian is in the kitchen therefore the "where is Brian ?" joke.