# Jacques Chirac, enter Le Pitte, sil vous plais **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 22, 2003, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-chirac-enter-le-pitte-sil-vous-plais/163323 "2003-03-22T07:31:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-chirac-enter-le-pitte-sil-vous-plais/163323/41 "2003-03-26T04:21:09Z")
I actually knew that, just not at 2:30 am on no food, 3 drinks (which I _never_ do), and 3 hours of sleep the previous night. If I’d bothered to try coding it, it would have looked funny to me and I would have realized. Besides, cut me some slack; I had 2 years of French in high school and 1 semester in college, the last of which I completed 14 years ago this May. (Lord, is it really that long ago?) ---
**Author:** ![Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satisfying_Andy_Licious)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-chirac-enter-le-pitte-sil-vous-plais/163323/42 "2003-03-26T05:56:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eva Luna \* > \*\*I actually knew that, just not at 2:30 am on no food, 3 drinks (which I _never_ do), and 3 hours of sleep the previous night. \*\* Sacrete blur! **Eva Luna,** if you encounter someone who is attempting to insult someone in that someone’s native language, and you then wish to insult the person who was insulting that person in the person’s native language because of the grammar/spelling in the native language that person was insulting the person in … What was the question? > [@](#): > > If I’d bothered to try coding it, it would have looked funny to me and I would have realized. We must protest zis rush to judgment. We should allow zee spell checkers to work. The spell checkers are doing their job. We must give zem more time. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-chirac-enter-le-pitte-sil-vous-plais/163323/43 "2003-03-26T12:43:27Z")
I have no French spell checker. I suppose there’s humor in that somewhere, but I’m too tired to find it. Oh, and I believe the three drinks were French wine, now that I think about it. Go ahead, craft a conspiracy theory! (I’m Jewish, too, if that helps. Maybe it’s a French/Zionist combination consiracy. Oh, and I speak Russian, so I guess you can throw that in there to.) But the three drinks were in pursuit of a location for May’s ChiDope. So what does this say about the rest of the Dopers? Are they in cahoots? ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-chirac-enter-le-pitte-sil-vous-plais/163323/44 "2003-03-26T12:44:56Z")
Oh, and I think you meant to say “Sacré Bleu!” ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-chirac-enter-le-pitte-sil-vous-plais/163323/45 "2003-03-26T14:13:46Z")
I would like to share this little tidbit in today’s paper: [http://nypost.com/news/worldnews/71867.htm](http://nypost.com/news/worldnews/71867.htm) > [@](#): > > Secretary of State Colin Powell, meanwhile, yesterday brushed aside France’s offer to help U.S. troops against Saddam if the Iraqi leader uses the chemical weapons that France has said there is no proof he has. > > Powell told French TV, “If the French wanted to help us, our troops are in just as much danger from high-explosive rounds as they are from chemical rounds. So I’m not sure what the particular distinction is.” ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-chirac-enter-le-pitte-sil-vous-plais/163323/46 "2003-03-26T14:21:20Z")
> [@](#): > > Powell told French TV, “If the French wanted to help us, our troops are in just as much danger from high-explosive rounds as they are from chemical rounds. So I’m not sure what the particular distinction is.” Er… so why the war…? ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-chirac-enter-le-pitte-sil-vous-plais/163323/47 "2003-03-26T14:34:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by E-Sabbath \* > \*\*Speaking of which, anyone got a good link to a respectable french newspaper in english? \*\* I don’t know about any respectable french newspaper in english. Actually, I don’t know about any french newspaper in english at all. What would be the point and who would buy it? ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-chirac-enter-le-pitte-sil-vous-plais/163323/48 "2003-03-26T14:50:12Z")
I think _Le Monde_ publishes an English version. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-chirac-enter-le-pitte-sil-vous-plais/163323/49 "2003-03-26T16:22:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eva Luna \* > \*\*If you’re going to insult a Frenchman in his own language, you would make less of a fool of youself if you at least used correct grammar/spelling. It’s \*s’il vous plait, \* with an accent on the “i” in “s’il” that I have no patience to code at 2:30 am. \*\* It’s been way too long since HS French for me to be sure, but wouldn’t it also be “entrez-vous le Pitte”? I really have no idea so I ask for informational purposes only. ---
**Author:** ![Zazie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Zazie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zazie)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-chirac-enter-le-pitte-sil-vous-plais/163323/50 "2003-03-26T17:34:10Z")
Entrez dans le Pit 😉 ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2003, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-chirac-enter-le-pitte-sil-vous-plais/163323/51 "2003-03-26T17:35:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Otto \* > \*\*It’s been way too long since HS French for me to be sure, but wouldn’t it also be “entrez-vous le Pitte”? I really have no idea so I ask for informational purposes only. \*\* It would be “entrez dans le/la…, s’il vous plait.”, since it’s an invitation. It’s the imperative tense. “Entrez-vous dans le/la…?” would be an actual question, meaning “are you coming into the…?” ---
**Author:** ![Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satisfying_Andy_Licious)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-chirac-enter-le-pitte-sil-vous-plais/163323/52 "2003-03-27T07:42:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eva Luna \* > \*\*Go ahead, craft a conspiracy theory! (I’m Jewish, too, if that helps. Maybe it’s a French/Zionist combination consiracy. \*\* J’ACCUSE! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-chirac-enter-le-pitte-sil-vous-plais/163323.md?page=2)