Bonjour Olivier, I am enjoying your animal sounds in different languages
page.  Thank you for sharing it.  But the reason I'm writing is to ask you
how you would say in French: "Oh my, I feel I'm gonna make my mussel all day
long".  I'm guessing that it is a wonderful idiom that I would like to
learn.  Je vous remercie encore.  Bert Bartleson

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http://www.idscaro.net/sci/06_disc/200712/index.htm

To keep this message shell related, let's learn something about how human
beings of western France use their language modules.
Here in Brittany, when people decide to stay couched a whole Sunday instead
of thinking, eating or even watching TV, they say : oh my, I feel I'm gonna
make my mussel all day long, yah... and they kill the phone, by decapitation
or with a pillow.

To make the mussel means to stay exactly like a mussel:
1 - in bed (mussel bed?)
2 - the mouth open
3 - the brain disconnected.

Not so easy!

In other countries, people name this activity Meditation.

Olivier Caro
The Lord of meditation

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