New Adventures of Queen Victoria by Pab Sungenis for January 07, 2009

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    debra4life50  almost 16 years ago

    “Mai, oiu. Please pass dee cake.”

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    pschearer Premium Member almost 16 years ago

    Could someone please translate for me? Yahoo’s Babel Fish translation as “The topic is search” does not satisfy.

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    Motivemagus  almost 16 years ago

    This is a joke, apparently based on The Straight Dope answer column. http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/550/did-marie-antoinette-really-say-let-them-eat-cake “Le theme est quete” (The theme is quest) would be roughly pronounced as “let them eat cake.” Someone asked if it was merely phonetic rather than actual quotation.

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    pschearer Premium Member almost 16 years ago

    Ah. Fonetiks. Now I get it.

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    Digital Frog  almost 16 years ago

    …it rolled off the table, and onto the floor. And then my poor head, it rolled out of the door…

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    Jml58  almost 16 years ago

    Oops, wrong head.

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    Pab Sungenis creator almost 16 years ago

    pschearer, motivemagus: You are both right. I remembered Cecil writing about “Le theme est quete” years ago in the Straight Dope, and is or is not the theme of today’s (and the next couple days’) strips searching?

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    pibfan868  almost 16 years ago

    I’m fixing the crack where my head rolled out, and set my mind to wandering, where it will go, where it will go…………. And it really doesn’t matter if they eat cake, it isn’t steak, and so it’s wrong…. (late rising, early bedlam!) teehee

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    Dutchboy1  almost 16 years ago

    How could they get her head into the guillotine with all that BIG HAIR?

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    ChiehHsia  almost 16 years ago

    They didn’t. Check out the sketch (by David) of the “Widow Capet” on her way to the guillotine. The big hair was all a wig.

    Try http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacques-LouisDavid-MarieAntoinetteontheWaytotheGuillotine.jpg

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    cwreenactor  almost 16 years ago

    LMHO!!

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    stpatme  almost 16 years ago

    DigitalFrog says:

    …it rolled off the table, and onto the floor. And then my poor head, it rolled out of the door…

    It rolled in the garden, and under a bush, and then my poor head, was nothing but moosh.

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    debra4life50  almost 16 years ago

    Dutchboy1 - If I remember my “Tale of Two Cities” right, they probably cut her hair short in the jail because of lice, and it made it easier to cut off her head, of course.

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