Sunday, July 15, 2012

sun., 15 july, 2012: (back by popular demand): bastille day blasphomets, iii.: give us This Day our Daily Curse

FRENCH: “T. F. P. / Travail, Famille, Patrie” §
FRENCH: “Après moi le déluge...” §§
FRENCH: “T. F. P. / Travaux forcés à perpetuité” §§§
FRENCH: Trempe le drapeau dans de l'héroïne et je m'en accomoderai… §§§
 
       § )   “Work, Family, Fatherland” — Nat’l motto of the Vichy Regime, the fuck-puppet govt. of the Nazi occupation ;
     §§ )  “After me, the deluge...” — King Louis XV ;
   §§§ )  “Forced labor in perpetuity” — i.e. & e.g., “life sentence without parole,” fr. the French penal code ;
 §§§§ )  “Soak the flag in heroin & I’ll suck on it…” — attributed to a famous former commissioner of sewers. (Fr. transl. courtesy of J.H.)
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