French Agents surrender in Brazil

[pchang]

lame lame lame

Their cover story was the worst I have ever heard. They could at least have tried to come up with something reasonable for why they would need a transport plane in the area on short notice. Then, they should have used this "emergency" to make urgent requests to Columbia or Brazil for flight permission and/or cooperation.

[Ecthy]

FUBAR is German???

[Dom Pedro II]

I take it you never saw Saving Private Ryan, Ect?

[Lefty Scaevola]

Dang, thoses froggies did not have to go all the way to the Amazon to surrender, they could have done so much closer to home and in more comfort, say in Andorra.

[Ecthy]

ah, it's their answer, I see

and what does it mean in effect? does it relate to a messed up situation or a dead person?

(fouled up to all recognition that is)

[Dom Pedro II]

Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition..

and it means whatever you like it to mean.. person, place, thing, event...

[Ecthy]

where does it come from?

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by BeBro
They all knew it, Chirac too, but someone has to be sacrificed in public, and that can´t be Chirac

This wouldn't be the first time. Back in the good ol' times (the 1995's), the Justice minister was sacrificed by Chirac: one of Chirac many crookeries was investigated by a new judge, and the Justice minister sent an expedition to take back the old judge taking a vacation at the Himalayas

Chirac's blunders are the last hope of French humour

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Can anyone tell me how de Villepin was able to move military assets around without informing at least Raffarin about it?

IIRC, French intelligence can get orders from the Defense and the Foreign minister (and I guess from the President as well). His decision was stupid, but I don't think it went further than Villepîn's abilities.

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by Dom Pedro II


I take it you never saw Saving Private Ryan, Ect?

The funny thing is that the explanation of FUBAR is the only line said in English in the German (dubbed) version of Saving Private Ryan. AFAIK it was "F***ed up beyond all recognition", although it is quite a long time since I saw the movie

[GePap]

So in the German version, everyone speaks German...how subtle.

[BeBMan]

Well, they dub all movies (and tv stuff too) here - sometimes quite badly. Of course on DVD you can have several languages but in the cinema all movies (wirh some exceptions) are generally in German.

[GePap]

When in Vienna my class went to see an Italian movie based on the Gospel of Luke (from the 1950's, black and white, faithfull to the text), but of course dubbed...

Man, hearing Jesus make his big, rousing speeches in german was hillarious.

[BeBMan]

It is especially funny in some movies - eg. in Gladiator all spoke German - except the Germans in the beginning

[Spiffor]

In the German dub Taxi 1, everybody speaks German... And the German villains (who weren't dubbed) are the worst at it