savoir faire

July 14, 2024 4:51 PM

our real question is: Are you still up? [McSweeney's]
posted by HearHere (13 comments total)

Happy Bastille Day!
posted by clavdivs at 5:04 PM on July 14 [2 favorites]

Hah! I really enjoyed that.

(And now I'm very curious about Nathaniel Missildine, and whether he's married to a French woman or something, because I bet a lot of us could have come up with about 5 of these things, but to come up with all 41 of them suggests a particular level of frequent encounter from both sides. Or maybe he's just very smart. Hah.)

Thank you for this, HearHere! Vivent the both of us!
posted by kristi at 5:20 PM on July 14 [3 favorites]

That was funny. Thanks for posting that.
posted by ThatCanadianGirl at 5:30 PM on July 14 [2 favorites]

That was funny. Thanks for posting that.
posted by ThatCanadianGirl

I can't entirely justify this being eponysterical, but.
posted by capricorn at 7:20 PM on July 14 [6 favorites]

I feel like this should be made into a slideshow set to Sara Bareilles's "Gravity". And another slideshow set to whatever the French equivalent of that song is.
posted by Johnny Assay at 7:22 PM on July 14 [2 favorites]

Wait. Was that what we know about France or what France knows about us?
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 7:33 PM on July 14 [1 favorite]

Wait. Was that what we know about France or what France knows about us?

And.
posted by Pope Guilty at 7:42 PM on July 14 [9 favorites]

And now I'm very curious about Nathaniel Missildine, and whether he's married to a French woman or something

that appears to be correct
posted by atoxyl at 8:17 PM on July 14 [1 favorite]

French equivalent of that song is.

Souffle Court
machine translation👇

By chance
Crossing paths like this
A look, already forgotten
By chance
Or maybe not
Memory
Do what she wants from me
It's not in your eyes
That I can see us
It's not in your voice
That I can believe it
It's not you anymore, it's not me anymore
This is no longer our story
It's not on your skin
That I feel hope
It's not on your heart
That I repair myself
It's not you anymore
It's not me anymore
I always like it
I had forgotten
I always like it
I could fall again
It's short of breath
That I stand
Oblivion remains deaf
To the memories of us
This moment
I've seen it a hundred times
Every moment
A shadow of you
Now
I know how to live without you
No way
To open the way for you
It's not in your eyes
That I can see us
It's not in your voice
That I can believe it
It's no longer you, it's no longer me
This is no longer our story
It's not on your skin
That I feel hope
It's not on your heart
That I repair myself
It's not you anymore
It's not me anymore
I always like it
I had forgotten
I always like it
I could fall again
It's short of breath
That I stand
Oblivion remains deaf
To the memories of us
Now I know how to live without you
No way
To open the way for you
I always like it
I had forgotten
I always like it
Don't fall back
It's short of breath
That I stand
Oblivion remains deaf
To the memories of us

posted by clavdivs at 8:18 PM on July 14 [2 favorites]

This was delightful
posted by potrzebie at 8:54 PM on July 14 [1 favorite]

no mention of snails, so very grateful
wait now I'm french
or am i
posted by winesong at 9:08 PM on July 14 [1 favorite]

Somehow, that was also surprisingly moving.
posted by AsYouKnow Bob at 10:43 PM on July 14 [2 favorites]

On US -French relations, I 'm going to post this analyzed scene from Au Service de La France a minute of action and twenty to explain the jokes.
posted by rongorongo at 1:01 AM on July 15