> Except IMHO between the British and the French. Like an old married > couple, a millenium of warfare between us has earned us the right to
> insult each other as we like. Remember they call us Brits Les > Rosbifs; I > actually don't find that even slightly insulting. No more so than you > ex-colonials calling us limeys, anyway. they also call us les gueules de bois (literally 'wooden gobs'). Gueule is an animal's mouth. GB = Great Britain = Gueule de Bois. J'ai la gueule de bois is an expression one utters after a night spent drinking too much wine. -- Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
