"Faire l' amour" would most likely sound like "Faire l' amoor" when
pronounced by Americans so I wonder what a mussel would do there... even if
the French perfectly know what  the word "moule" stands for in French slang
;-)!

F.F.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Olivier Caro" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] animal sounds : major upgrade and a mussel noises


> Oh my, I feel I'm gonna make my mussel all day long
>
> "Ouh je sens que je vais faire la moule toute la journée"
> "Hoo I feel I'll play the mussel all day"
>
> Faire la moule : to play the mussel, to make one's mussel (to wear the
> mussel's character? like in: "this evening I play King Arthur etc")
> In French, we say : "here we are, he's making his little fool again" to
> say
> "he plays the fool" as an actor plays a character.
> Je vais faire la moule... Je fais la moule. Yesterday I made my mussel,
> j'ai
> fait la moule.
>
> A short story:
> When GI's landed in France to push Nazis back in their dens, the first
> thing
> they did (after sharing chewing gums with natives), was to say, when they
> encountered nice girls and other beautiful ladies: "Bonjour Mademoiselle,
> voulez-vous faire l'amour avec moi ?" (that's what women say, OK? let's
> guess we can trust them)
> But when a pure yankee articulates such a sentence with a chewing-gum in
> the
> mouth, it sounds very, very different; and a young (and, certainly,
> beautiful) girl from Brittany was more than surprised by what requested a
> large and glorious sergeant: "Bonjour Mademoiselle, voulez-vous faire la
> moule avec moi ?"
> "Ah, baa, ehmmm... why not ?" she answered, believing the guy had in mind
> just a little nap, and only that (hmmm... Frenchies say people of far west
> Brittany are not the most powerful brains of kingdom Animalia... "just
> upon
> medusas", they add... "maybe" they re-add). Of course, the afternoon
> became
> something more agitated that expected.
> This story took place somewhere between Saint-Malo and Rennes, on the
> westernmost part of Patton's Liberty Road (august 44).
>
> After what, when the young lady's boyfriend learned what happened, he
> said,
> quite angry : "Mussel napping, eh ? All the afternoon ? Do you think I'm a
> Whelk?"
> "A whelk" refers to Buccinum undatum, the animal supposed to be more than
> stupid. Vernacular name: the "Bulot".
> "Ah, quel bulot! " "Ah, what a %$£##!"
> "You idiot! This was not a nap he asked for!" ---> "Eh bulot ! C'était pas
> une sieste qu'il demandait !"
>
> Olivier Caro
>
> ...I don't remember if I answered your question!
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bert Bartleson" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 7:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] animal sounds : major upgrade and a mussel noises
>
>
>> 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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