Showing posts with label femme. Show all posts
Showing posts with label femme. Show all posts

Monday, 8 March 2021

La plus belle courbe

La plus belle courbe sur le corps d'une femme est son sourire // The most beautiful curve on a woman’s body is her smile

Yesterday, local and national TV stations were showing a "virtual" carnival show in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Its equivalent in Las Palmas this year had the carnival spirit diluted to the point of being insipid, not to say homeopathic. So I was pleasantly surprised to see that Santa Cruz managed to keep at least some of the normal exuberance. It was just one show instead of many, and there were no public in attendance, but at least the costumes were beautiful. Maybe not as huge and expensive as normal, but still, quite impressive, very feathery.

Yesterday's quote by Bob Marley from Citation Célèbre got connected in my head with the show. The costume of the croquis is loosely based on number seven in yesterday's list.

Tuesday, 24 October 2017

La femme boit avant le cheval

pour la femme, pour le cheval // for the woman, for the horse
This time, an illustration for another delightfully silly (and horsey) phrase from Duolingo : "La femme boit avant le cheval" - "The woman drinks before the horse".

I don't know who is thinking up these phrases, but I suspect they occasionally get bored and introduce something nonsensical just to amuse themselves. 

Kind of reminds me of an old student joke : "А электрод я взял деревянный, потому что этот диплом все равно никто читать не будет." - "I used a wooden electrode since no-one gonna read this thesis anyway". I don't know how international it is, maybe it is a part of the students' lore everywhere.