Photo request - FPW 12 - French Sailors

[FierceKitty]

I noted recently that all over Italy vendors hailed me with the related "Hello Selfie" while trying to sell me metal rods with brackets to hold mobile 'phones.

[cameronian]

The apostrophe before 'phone', splendid.

[FierceKitty]

We're a fast-dying breed.

[cameronian]

You're right.

[pierre the shy]

This thread must be a contenter for "most academic thread direction change" of the year? 

We've gone from FPW figure photos to obscure french sayings to proper english allieraition and even had a bit of greek thrown in - very educational     

[FierceKitty]

...AND a new word to be explained....

[Techno]

Isn't it the hingey bit on a plane's wing, that helps the plane go up and down ?

Cheers - Phil

[FierceKitty]

Must be it.

[Ithoriel]

I thought it was derived from ailurophile and therefore some allusion to you FK

[FierceKitty]

Captains haven't been here long enough to join the Kitty-baiting game. Usually, anyway.

[mollinary]

This thread must be a contenter for "most academic thread direction change" of the year? 

We've gone from FPW figure photos to obscure french sayings to proper english allieraition and even had a bit of greek thrown in - very educational     

It is not really a French phrase at all, obscure or not. It is simply an example of the lengths the English will go to to produce a pathetic joke! 

Mollinary

[pierre the shy]

I think my sense of humour has been greatly modified by my "extended absence" from the UK.

Anyway...I'm only in thiis tread for the pictures 

[Leman]

And you appear to have acquired an Irish accent.

[cameronian]

You really shouldn't start a sentence with a conjunction ... just saying 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Because?

[cameronian]

Why ?

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

So?

[cameronian]

Perhaps ... but not necessarily.

[Leman]

........and you appear to have acquired an Irish accent.

Happy now?

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Maybe...