French knock-knock joke
Nice things this week: Linda from Graphic Design Basics asked me for an interview (probably because of my very basic graphic design skills) which nicely mixes the personal and professional. The interview is published today.
And Zeldman reviewed the accessibility book:
Vast and practically all-encompassing, this newly updated classic belongs on every web designer’s shelf. (Better still, open it and read.)
So buy it. Unless you hate the Web.
Enough work stuff. Here’s the joke:
Joke
Frappe frappe!Armand:
Qui est là?Jean-Pierre:
Loste.Armand:
Loste qui?Jean-Pierre:
Oui, malhereusement.
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18 Responses to “ French knock-knock joke ”
Pas mal, mon ami, pas mal. Mais pas bon, aussi (comme ma Francais!)
Très drôle. Et maintenant je dois acheter votre livre de Web. Il est en français aussi? Non? Pourquoi pas? 😉
And I’ve just finished reading the transcript of your double act with Patrick at the geek in the park do. Some very good points, ones we have to weigh up every day!
How about a translation? Babelfish didn’t help! 🙁
I know – I translated it in my head three times and was thinking “EH?” until I read it out loud…
I can’t figure out how to pronounce it either, particularly that last word, so reading it out loud didn’t help. I also don’t understand why it can’t be translated, but oh well, I look forward to next weeks joke.
Lachlan, it goes like this:
qui is pronounced “kee” (as in keen)
Thanks Bruce, now it makes sense! 😀
Omg…
…Que?
😉
Only if I knew french!
I speak french.
Had to try many times before pronouncing it correctly. See, my “english trying to speak french” accent isn’t that good yet. Got to practice. But in anticipation I laughed all the way through though because I know British are hilarious!
Its snail.
S-cargot, is Escargot which is snail.
I laughed!
And the Qui one is old…
still funny!
Toc! Toc! Toc!
Qui est la?
Guy.
Guy qui?
Gui-tare!
Ho! Ho! Ho!
Toc! Toc! Toc!
Qui est la?
Claire!
Claire qui?
Clair-inette!!!!
Ho! Ho! Ho!
-Toc Toc?
-Qui est là?
-Rien.
-Rien de qui?
-Rien à faire sauf pour dire une blague tok tok!
-Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho!
-Knock Knock.
-Who’s There?
-Nothing.
-Nothing who?
-Nothing to do except to say a knock knock joke!
-Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!
– frappe frappe
– c’est qui?
– c’est mon
– mon qui?
– ooh ooh ah ah [tickle armpit at this point]
For some time I’ve been making the kids that I teach groan with this bilingual version:
Toc, toc
Qui est là?
Alosmo
Alosmo qui?
Well, you’d better climb in through the window, then.
Enfin. Un site Web anglophone qui reflète le humour essentiel de la nation Français. Bravo. Evidement fait par un vrai froggy. Comme j’ai dit a Helmut:
Toc-toc!
Qui est là?
“S”
“S” qui?
“S”cargot!
Hahahaha! Amusant, n’est-ce pas? Vous riez, non? Que je suis drôle!