Have your cake and eat it

simu · 30-07-2003 11:24pm #1

This joke works better in speech form but here goes all the same:

There's this woman who knows no French and so, pronounces the word gâteau like "gat-ocks" instead of like "gat-oh".

So, one day, this woman goes to buy a cake at a fancy cake shop. "Hi, I'd like to buy that "gat-ocks" there please", says she to the shop owner. This shop owner looks at her disdainfully and says, "Actually, madam, I think you'll find that the correct pronunciation is "gat-oh".
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To which the woman replies,"Oh bolloh".

passive · 31-07-2003 12:12am

eeh....i said "oh....ha"....so...kinda like laughing....nice effort anyway...was she in France..or...ah forget it, no need to explain

Carbiens · 31-07-2003 1:19am

ffs:( :rolleyes: :mad:

Pugsley · 31-07-2003 7:07am

:rolleyes:

ColinM · 31-07-2003 8:46am

Unhappy smileys eh lads?
Well I frickin' "lolled".
Good man Simu!

Mac daddy · 31-07-2003 8:52am

prob sound better when spoken.
i will give him a smiley for trying at least

ColinM · 31-07-2003 8:59am

Except I knew there was something wrong here!
The joke only works if you use the plural of cake - gâteaux (or the brand name if you like). N'est pas?

-> move to French forum? Zut alors.

Antisocialiser · 31-07-2003 10:24am

Sorry thats really bad :P keep tryin

AdMMM · 31-07-2003 12:42pm

1 star for copying and pasting it...

simu · 01-08-2003 2:01am

Trust me, you can't judge it until you try *saying* it to someone.

Myself and some friends have taken to saying bollo all the time now after hearing this.

As for gateaux being the plural, je le sais, but the woman is supposed to know no French, i guess I should have put "Could I have 2 gateaux please"

THat was the first time i posted a joke here - it's quite nerve-wracking, actually!

ColinM · 01-08-2003 4:21am

As for gateaux being the plural, je le sais, but the woman is supposed to know no French, i guess I should have put "Could I have 2 gateaux please"

Well - yeah - like that is what I am saying - the joke only works if the woman is asking for gateaux (the implication being that she saw the word for cakes written but no one told her how to pronounce it - ie that the "x" is silent).
If she saw the word gateau written - why would she think it was pronounced with an "x" at the end? Who would?

And sorry, because I know taking jokes apart and over-explaining them never makes them any funnier...

Defense de fumer, Rodney, defense de fumer.