C'est la Vie by Jennifer Babcock for September 23, 2010

LOL! Sometimes being an airhead can be a good thing.

Donna’s heart is too big just as her brain is too small….

You know, they might work out okay. She refuses to take offense and he doesn’t give a hoot.

If you take a taxi across Paris and the driver thinks you do not know French (but you secretly do), you will feel like killing him before you get to your destination.

How do you translate “ditz”?

if you put your ear to Donna’s head….you can hear the ocean

LoL! I was wondering if she was speaking French because yesterday, Donna asked if she called her a “whore”, that must’ve been in english.

I lived in the Mid-East and loved hearing my blond hair, blue eyes cursed to hell. I would listen with a smile and a dumb American look on my face. When I departed them, I would address them in Arabic.

There’s an old joke I remember: What do you call someone who speaks two languages? Bilingual. What do you call someone who speaks only one language? American.

One hates to think what the Grandparents on both sides were like… The French are not so different? How do you say ‘redneck’ in French?

^But I’ve met many Americans who expect the Parisians to speak English to them.

French is a lovely language to listen to, even though you do not know French. It just Sounds so elegant!

Ya know, not all French are obnoxious. I loved LeBou on “Hogan’s Heros”

I hope this won’t be the start of a bunch of mother-in-law jokes (assuming Pierre & Donna actually go through with this).

Whore = “une putain” (this has been known to create muffled sniggers when the Russian president visited France, as “Putin” is not a million miles away from “putain”, pronunciation-wise.)

“How do you say ‘redneck’ in French?”

A possibly dated way of calling somebody a redneck is to use the phrase “pied-noir”, or blackfoot: this alleges both an intimate association with the fine soil of France (“red-neck” is also an insult thrown at dim yokels whose necks grow sunburnt due to toil in the fields) and a disposition to avoid washing said feet so there’s only one way they can go. “Pied-noir” was an insult often thrown at French colonists in Algeria, who saaw themselves and their country as being French, whilst French people from the mainland saw them as peculiar white African colonists - much as the British view white South Africans, in fact.

Ie, a thick inbred yokel hillbilly with an aversion to soap…