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2006-07-13 Europe

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Posted by Angemp Angeatle4864 2006-07-13 00:55|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Bravo ! Bravo ! Auteur ! Auteur !

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2006-07-13 01:09|| 2006-07-13 01:09|| Front Page Top

#2 The Raven?...

Gotta be Dominique. Probably wears a friggin' cape, too.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-07-13 01:17|| 2006-07-13 01:17|| Front Page Top

#3 In that context a corbeau (Raven) is not a code word but slang for someone who writes anonymous letters, for instance telling someone that his wife cheats him or to the wife menacing her to tell the truth to the husband but without asking for money (corbeau not equal blckmailer) just for causing fear and anguish.

Also during the German occupation, sending anonymous letters to the police about neighbours, bosses, relatives was a very popular sport. So popular that the Germans ended throwing them directly in the dustbin since the volume (hundreds of thousands perhaps millions) exceeded by far their capacities of investigation. There were wives reporting to Germabns that hubbie was in the Resistance, husbands reporting lovers, lovers reporting husbands, collabos reporting rival collabos and resistants reporting resistants.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-07-13 04:54|| 2006-07-13 04:54|| Front Page Top

#4 "Le corbeau", GREAT, very dark and pessimistic movie.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-07-13 05:54|| 2006-07-13 05:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Also during the German occupation, sending anonymous letters to the police about neighbours, bosses, relatives was a very popular sport. So popular that the Germans ended throwing them directly in the dustbin since the volume (hundreds of thousands perhaps millions) exceeded by far their capacities of investigation.

No offense JFM, but that's fucked up.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-07-13 07:44|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-07-13 07:44|| Front Page Top

#6 sending anonymous letters

OT : this reminds of a excerpt of a "worst of" of the anonymous letters sent to the french IRS in the 90's, and one sentence was so funny, in a sick, perverted way, it stuck in my mind; it was something like "my neighbor has a big shiny new car, and on top of that, I think he's a jew", YJCMTSU.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-07-13 07:47|| 2006-07-13 07:47|| Front Page Top

#7 No offense JFM, but that's fucked up.

Not an excuse, but perhaps it might be some kind of explanation (?) : IIUC, France has been in slow-motion civil war since the early 19th century, still going on. Ours is a very fractured and divisive society.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-07-13 07:49|| 2006-07-13 07:49|| Front Page Top

#8 So that giant sucking sound you hear isn't your toilet, but the French political elite ....

How does the French sucking sound differ from that of our elites?

Posted by Chomoper Glineling2155 2006-07-13 09:48|| 2006-07-13 09:48|| Front Page Top

#9 How does the French sucking sound differ from that of our elites?

It is bigger.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-07-13 10:55|| 2006-07-13 10:55|| Front Page Top

#10 And it has Panache! Oui môssieur!

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-07-13 10:58|| 2006-07-13 10:58|| Front Page Top

#11 Also, they've been doing it longer (which is why oral sex is called "French").

Al

Posted by Frozen Al">Frozen Al 2006-07-13 13:29|| 2006-07-13 13:29|| Front Page Top

#12 Sack air blue, I thought it was mustard.

Posted by wxjames 2006-07-13 16:32|| 2006-07-13 16:32|| Front Page Top

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