Cyril, Thanks for asking.
The intention of my message was a play with absurdity. Tom R. in his original message referred to the common notion of "French film" as "dirty movies", that is - movies of sexual or pornographic nature. On purpose I pretended not to fully understand this, but rather in my response used the word "dirty" in it's lteral sense of "not-clean" (or rather did a double entendre in commenting how a dirty movie would cause a real mess to clean up.) In my line of reasoning, in my message there simply was no thing like any "un-clean" French movies or negatives to be cleaned whatsoever. It was, at least as far as my intentions go, purely a joke, in which I tried to make a fool of myself. (Maybe I was being too successfull in this.) Therefor, referring to French toilets at the end of my message, had, at least to me, absolutely no rational meaning at all, certainly not in regards to the hygienic practices of the French. However, there actually was a reference to a widely spread notion, or saying, in the Nordic countries, about the type of French public toilets that you at least earlier could run into, and which would be the topic of discussion among any Scandinavian travellers to France. (Now, I haven't visited France since the 70:s, why this saying about "French toilets" already may be old and forgotten today. Sorry, in that case for bringing it up.) (As an aside I can tell you that "the toilets in France" also used to be the topic of jokes a shared with a former French girlfriend of mine, purely on a friendly basis. I realise now, that not speaking (joking) directly to a French person may have obscured the "friendly" intentions of my joke. Sorry about that.) But, as I tried to explain, since I already, as a joke, had pretended to misunderstand the reference to "dirty movies" I thought that it was obvious that no one could take my words about toilets seriously. I was putting on, or playing, a role, of someone that's not me. (At least I think it's not me, but who the hell knows such things for sure...). If I nevertheless caused you, or any other French members offence, I apologize. To all others too, sorry about a (yet another possibly) poor joke. Lasse ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cyril MARION" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 5:56 PM Subject: RE: French film > Lasse, what do you mean ? > > > Anyway, no wonder the French can't keep their films clean. I remember > > their toilets... > > > > Lasse. > > Cheers, > > Cyril > Paris, France - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
