--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote:
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> I'll never forget the night that the most popular TV
> anchorman in France (I forget his name...sorry) signed
> off for the night by reading a short AP wire saying
> that George W. Bush's name had just been submitted into
> contention for nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.
> He stopped reading, set the wire clipping he'd been
> reading from down on the table in front of him, gazed
> soulfully into the camera lens in that soulful way
> that only the French can look soulful, and said,
> "Le monde est fou, fou, fou." ("The world is crazy,
> crazy, crazy.") Those were his parting words for
> the evening.
For the record, there's a very large number of people
who can submit names for Nobel Prize consideration.
So the anchor really should have said, "Quelqu'un est
fou, fou, fou" ("Somebody is crazy, crazy, crazy").
