Dear Dave

Chou-fleur

   dear dave,

i´m really relieved to heart that i´ll be strong and not fat! but i´m
already crying for my tillers, but on the weekend i´ll buy some new
ones! good that you warned me! keep on giving wise advices!

fiona

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Spot192 Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 28 Nov 04 Location: Germany Online Status: Offline Posts: 833	Post Options Post Reply Quote Spot192 Report Post Quote Reply Topic: Dear Dave Posted: 02 Jun 05 at 6:33pm
	dear dave, i´m really relieved to heart that i´ll be strong and not fat! but i´m already crying for my tillers, but on the weekend i´ll buy some new ones! good that you warned me! keep on giving wise advices! fiona

bigwavedave Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Really should get out more Joined: 04 Jun 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 944	Post Options Post Reply Quote bigwavedave Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 02 Jun 05 at 5:43pm
	Dear Fiona, You will not be fat. You will be strong but you will not be a heavy weight. The only thing that will break is a young mans heart when you tell him no. (oh and two tiller extensions and a mug).


Spot192 Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 28 Nov 04 Location: Germany Online Status: Offline Posts: 833	Post Options Post Reply Quote Spot192 Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 02 Jun 05 at 5:33pm
	dear dave, you said you are able to predict the future, so i´m asking you if i will be a strong heavy weight (hope not too fat) femal sailor until the 14 worlds will be held in germany in 2008? and please tell me that nothing will break until then! thanks in advance, fiona

bigwavedave Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Really should get out more Joined: 04 Jun 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 944	Post Options Post Reply Quote bigwavedave Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 02 Jun 05 at 5:09pm
	Blobby, Thank you for your kind comments. just to let you know I can also predict the future, and am a font of all knowledge, so if there is any thing you would like to know please ask.


Black no sugar Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 04 Dec 04 Location: Somewhere between Brighton and Lancing Online Status: Offline Posts: 3941	Post Options Post Reply Quote Black no sugar Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 02 Jun 05 at 12:36pm
	Cauliflower! Chou-fleur means cauliflower... I've never been called like that, and I strongly advise everyone NOT to try!!
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john.d.knight Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Groupie Joined: 09 Jul 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 42	Post Options Post Reply Quote john.d.knight Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 02 Jun 05 at 12:22pm
	As I only have school boy French, I worked out Petit/Small and Fleur/Flower but I had to use babelfish for chou. Is "my little cabbage flower" a term of endearment in France or did something get lost in translation!
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Black no sugar Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 04 Dec 04 Location: Somewhere between Brighton and Lancing Online Status: Offline Posts: 3941	Post Options Post Reply Quote Black no sugar Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 02 Jun 05 at 10:31am
	He should have dated a French girl. She probably would have laughed and told him she'd call him one of these days... Trust my bilingual experience: words of endearment (and swear words too ) are notoriously difficult to pitch - I am talking of register of language, there, before you start comments!
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Blobby Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Really should get out more Joined: 07 May 04 Location: Australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 779	Post Options Post Reply Quote Blobby Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 02 Jun 05 at 10:17am
	Actually a friend of mine got in a bit of bother at Uni over this one - he was spending a year in Paris and started seeing a girl from Mauritius...one evening, after a pleasant meal and a good bottle of wine he was feeling particularly affectionate called her his "petit choufleur". The reaction he got was excellent and all was well until the following morning when she asked him what time they would call her parents to give them the good news...

Black no sugar Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 04 Dec 04 Location: Somewhere between Brighton and Lancing Online Status: Offline Posts: 3941	Post Options Post Reply Quote Black no sugar Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 02 Jun 05 at 9:56am
	Oh, mon chou ! It's so sweet... Lucky you!!
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Blobby Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Really should get out more Joined: 07 May 04 Location: Australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 779	Post Options Post Reply Quote Blobby Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 02 Jun 05 at 9:54am
	[/QUOTE] Some of it is quite benign, but it sounds so much better in French! [/QUOTE] Too true - calling your other half a cabbage or a cauliflower isn't really taken as a compliment in english...