# DOONESBURY Sunday Strip translation **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 5, 2003, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-sunday-strip-translation/173232 "2003-05-05T18:15:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2003, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-sunday-strip-translation/173232/1 "2003-05-05T18:15:03Z")
Could someone who speaks French provide a translation of yesterday’s comic strip, for those of us who aren’t bi? ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-sunday-strip-translation/173232/2 "2003-05-05T18:35:04Z")
I don’t know French, but you can translate stuff here: [http://babel.altavista.com/translate.dyn](http://babel.altavista.com/translate.dyn) ---
**Author:** ![KinSaba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7bcc69/32.png) [@KinSaba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinSaba)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2003, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-sunday-strip-translation/173232/3 "2003-05-05T18:44:28Z")
[Here it is](http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/030504_french.html) ---
**Author:** ![El\_Smasho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f9ae1b/32.png) [@El\_Smasho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Smasho)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2003, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-sunday-strip-translation/173232/4 "2003-05-05T19:05:30Z")
I think the rap for French Canadian is about the same as being French. Nobody really hates them for being against the war, but it’s an excuse because they have a rep for being snooty, and Americans don’t like snooty - not PC egalitarian. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-sunday-strip-translation/173232/5 "2003-05-05T19:32:59Z")
Amazing- you’d think the strip would be funny in ONE language, at least! But then, this IS Garry (Sound Asleep since the Nixon Administration) Trudeau. ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-sunday-strip-translation/173232/6 "2003-05-06T05:25:34Z")
Hey now, even with its faults, Doonesbury is still light years ahead of Mallard Fillmore. I like how there was a strip this week expecting Janeane Garofalo to apologize to GWB since we beat Saddam and found WMD. Ooops. I wonder how long ago that strip was written. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-sunday-strip-translation/173232/7 "2003-05-06T09:29:28Z")
We found WMD? When? I’m not being snotty, I’d love it if my friend lost his hand in a good cause instead of a semi-fruitless one. I’m really asking. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-sunday-strip-translation/173232/8 "2003-05-06T11:47:22Z")
We haven’t found any WMD. Whoever writes Mallard Filmore apparently writes the strips well in advance, and he just fell flat on his face with a bad prediction. IMHO, it’s starting to look like maybe they really did dismantle the WMD years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Tomcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Tomcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tomcat)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-sunday-strip-translation/173232/9 "2003-05-06T11:54:18Z")
Maybe. Then again, maybe [not.](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,86068,00.html) -Tcat ps- I do like the reverse CESM comment at the end of the strip. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-sunday-strip-translation/173232/10 "2003-05-06T14:45:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Diceman \* > \*\*We haven’t found any WMD. Whoever writes Mallard Filmore apparently writes the strips well in advance, and he just fell flat on his face with a bad prediction. > > . \*\* Not just bad timing on the WMD. He slammed Janeane Garofalo on two counts: for saying that she would apologize when WMD were found and that Iraqis would be cheering US troops. His strip ran on the day that Iraqis tossed grenades at US soldiers. He went out on a limb, and it broke off. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-sunday-strip-translation/173232/11 "2003-05-06T18:45:48Z")
I thought that Doonesbury strip was great. “Parce que vous etes des jingoistic, self-regarding **conquer-monkeys**!” “Oops, pardon our French!” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-sunday-strip-translation/173232/12 "2003-05-06T20:43:04Z")
Why, despite being a liberal pinko anti-war Doonsebury reading guy, do I resent the snot out of that particular strip? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-sunday-strip-translation/173232/13 "2003-05-06T21:02:48Z")
Because you feel immense shame from being a life-long conquer monkey? I somewhat agree with the strip, however I just don’t see the logic that equates “not speaking french” with “jingoistic xenophobe”. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-sunday-strip-translation/173232/14 "2003-05-06T21:05:35Z")
Snails. Bad beer. Riding American tanks into Paris. There, I feel better. Got any bananas? ---
**Author:** ![Zazie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Zazie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zazie)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-sunday-strip-translation/173232/15 "2003-05-06T21:28:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by carnivorousplant \* > \*\*Snails. Bad beer. > \*\* ohhhhhhhhhhhh stop right here… BAD BEER?! You haven’t had all the beers made in France. Go to Alsace, try a few, and post again! Concerning the comic strip… awwww, it brings tears to my eyes…! Stop the hate 😃 ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-sunday-strip-translation/173232/16 "2003-05-06T23:03:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Munch \* > I somewhat agree with the strip, however I just don’t see the logic that equates “not speaking french” with “jingoistic xenophobe”. It’s the same “logic” that gave us “you’re either with us or you’re with the terrorists” and “coallition of the willing.” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-sunday-strip-translation/173232/17 "2003-05-06T23:05:26Z")
I had heard in a chemistry class that Pateur was trying to make a decent French beer with the Pasteurization thing. But if you’ve actually had good French beer, I take it back. The snails and tanks stay, though. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-sunday-strip-translation/173232/18 "2003-05-06T23:38:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zazie \* > \*\*ohhhhhhhhhhhh stop right here… BAD BEER?! You haven’t had all the beers made in France. Go to Alsace, try a few, and post again! > \*\* Strousburg es Duetch!! runs and hides ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-sunday-strip-translation/173232/19 "2003-05-06T23:47:02Z")
Troudeau has been neither relevant nor funny since the mid 70s. ---
**Author:** ![Zazie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Zazie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zazie)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-sunday-strip-translation/173232/20 "2003-05-06T23:59:04Z")
I’ll agree on the snails! And Mr. Miskatonic, you’re a bad bad man!!! 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doonesbury-sunday-strip-translation/173232.md?page=2)