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Re: Announcement: Derby Teams 28th and 29th September 2013
Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 8:54 pm
by petedalby
Hmmm...
Olivier, Guillaume & Monsieur Dufour ....all on the same team....I wouldn't bet against them.
I'm sorry that I can't be there but will be interested to see the final results.
Re: Announcement: Derby Teams 28th and 29th September 2013
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 9:37 am
by LEmpereur
petedalby wrote:Hmmm...
Olivier, Guillaume & Monsieur Dufour ....all on the same team....I wouldn't bet against them.
I'm sorry that I can't be there but will be interested to see the final results.
Play native... makes you lucid!
Re: Announcement: Derby Teams 28th and 29th September 2013
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 10:35 am
by olivier
The problem is that the French don't compete in enough UK competitions to get a full ranking - therefore the French teams have an artificially low ranking. However, since this meant that Guillame's team would end up in last place I considered that it was more than adequate
In reality what the French players need to do is turn up to more UK tournaments (four) and then they'd have a full ranking.
Certainly not!!
The last time some french guys came to play seriously and won sometimes like 1066, you have held against us for eight centuries
Re: Announcement: Derby Teams 28th and 29th September 2013
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 11:34 am
by grahambriggs
olivier wrote:The problem is that the French don't compete in enough UK competitions to get a full ranking - therefore the French teams have an artificially low ranking. However, since this meant that Guillame's team would end up in last place I considered that it was more than adequate
In reality what the French players need to do is turn up to more UK tournaments (four) and then they'd have a full ranking.
Certainly not!!
The last time some french guys came to play seriously and won sometimes like 1066, you have held against us for eight centuries
They were Nor(se)man, not French
Re: Announcement: Derby Teams 28th and 29th September 2013
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 12:19 pm
by olivier
They were Nor(se)man, not French
As I said, old grudge never die
BTW Harald was a Saxon not an Angles...
And your Queen is a Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha (Windsor since 1917)
Re: Announcement: Derby Teams 28th and 29th September 2013
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 12:27 pm
by LEmpereur
olivier wrote:As I said, old grudge never die
BTW Harald was a Saxon not an Angles...
And your Queen is a Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha (Windsor since 1917)
Olivier,
can we continue to cut corners (same word for angles in french...)?
Ok we
Re: Announcement: Derby Teams 28th and 29th September 2013
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 6:29 pm
by philqw78
LEmpereur wrote:Olivier,
can we continue to cut corners (same word for angles in french...)?
Ok we
I thought it was the Germans that were humourless
Re: Announcement: Derby Teams 28th and 29th September 2013
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 7:21 pm
by franck
I thought it was the Germans that were humourless[/quote]
not at all !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zkZ3f8DnKs
Re: Announcement: Derby Teams 28th and 29th September 2013
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 7:52 pm
by TamsinP
I'm sure Gordon and Dave S will join me in horror at the suggestion that we might finish in 8th place. If there were 8 teams, maybe, but with 12 teams I think we are being placed above 4 teams too many.
Re: Announcement: Derby Teams 28th and 29th September 2013
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 6:12 am
by LEmpereur
franck wrote:philqw78 wrote:LEmpereur wrote:Olivier,
can we continue to cut corners (same word for angles in french...)?
Ok we
I thought it was the Germans that were humourless
not at all !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zkZ3f8DnKs
Franck,
Can we cut german too ? (german means german in french...)
Re: Announcement: Derby Teams 28th and 29th September 2013
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 6:17 am
by philqw78
These jokes must lose meaning in translation. That or its more French philosophising
Re: Announcement: Derby Teams 28th and 29th September 2013
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 6:12 pm
by dave_r
philqw78 wrote:These jokes must lose meaning in translation. That or its more French philosophising
After we taught the French how to make Wine it looks like we'll have to concentrate on the humour next.
Re: Announcement: Derby Teams 28th and 29th September 2013
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 7:45 pm
by timmy1
Mr R.
As someone who has had the misfortune to drink English wine I really doubt we taught the French anything about making wine, certainly not if the Muscadet's and Chinon's I tasted in the the Loire this month are anything to go by...
Re: Announcement: Derby Teams 28th and 29th September 2013
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 8:34 pm
by dave_r
timmy1 wrote:Mr R.
As someone who has had the misfortune to drink English wine I really doubt we taught the French anything about making wine, certainly not if the Muscadet's and Chinon's I tasted in the the Loire this month are anything to go by...
Timmy,
You must remind me - who did Bordeaux belong to in the 100 years war?
Re: Announcement: Derby Teams 28th and 29th September 2013
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 8:40 pm
by timmy1
The Gascons?
Re: Announcement: Derby Teams 28th and 29th September 2013
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 9:14 pm
by dave_r
timmy1 wrote:The Gascons?
And who did they support?
Re: Announcement: Derby Teams 28th and 29th September 2013
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 9:23 pm
by timmy1
whichever King was furthest away...
Re: Announcement: Derby Teams 28th and 29th September 2013
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 10:50 pm
by dave_r
timmy1 wrote:whichever King was furthest away...
i.e. The English.
I rest my case.
Re: Announcement: Derby Teams 28th and 29th September 2013
Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 5:20 pm
by olivier
I think cesar said something like "veni, vedi, vici"
Nice comp and good fellows.
Re: Announcement: Derby Teams 28th and 29th September 2013
Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 5:28 pm
by Robert241167
Another French victory Olivier?
Napoleon will never let me hear the last of it !!
Rob