Tee-hee :-) - New Yorker foreign expression contest winners

[Roxanne Appleby]

Winners of New Yorker Magazine contest in which contestants were to take a well-known foreign expression, change, add or drop a single letter, and then provide a definition for the new expression:


HARLEZ-VOUS FRANCAIS - Can you drive a French motorcycle?

COGITO, ERGO SPUD - I think, therefore I yam

VENI, VIPI, VICI - I came, I'm a very important person, I conquered

COGITO EGGO SUM - I think; therefore I waffle

RIGOR MORRIS - The cat is dead

RESPONDEZ S'IL VOUS PLAID - Honk if you're Scottish

QUE SERA SERF - Life is feudal

LE ROI EST MORT. JIVE LE ROI - The king is dead. No kidding.

PRO BOZO PUBLICO - Support your local clown

FELIX NAVIDAD - Our cat has a boat

HASTE CUISINE - Fast French food

VENI, VIDI, VICE - I came, I saw, I partied

QUIP PRO QUO - Snappy comeback

EX POST FUCTO - Lost in the mail

VISA LA FRANCE - Don't leave your chateau without it

AMICUS PURIAE - Platonic friend

L'ETAT, C'EST MOO - I'm bossy around here

ZITGEIST The Clearasil doesn't quite conceal it.

ICH BIT EIN BERLINER - He deserved it.

( OK, more than one letter : )

VENI, VIDI, VELCRO - I came, I saw, I stuck around

 

[minsue]

Love 'em.

 

[impressive]

 

[scheherazade_79]

Very amusing

 

[lipsofanangel]

I love those!

 

[TE999]

ROFLMAO!

I love word play.

This subject would be a fun thread in the AH.

All these clever minds around here could come up with some beauties, I betcha.

 

[EHawkins]

Hee hee--frickin' brilliant!

I love these

 

[amicus]

Excellent! Thank you!

I really needed a smile engendered by something above potty humor today and that was just the thing.


amicus quasi