Hey Quince

[Hildegard]

And other interested parties, this is the interview of Zidane, in which he explains what happened. The hitch is, it's in French. Not a problem for Quince, (or my infantile grasp of the language - let's just say I think I could converse pretty evenly with a Parisian toddler - OK, a deaf-mute Parisian toddler with Asberger's syndrome), but even if you can't understand him, he still looks and sounds pretty damn cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67czGgeiIrI&feature=Views&page=1&t=t&f=b

[Quince]

Merci, la belle.

Vous voulez bien que je fasse une traduction?

[Raincrow]

Je crois que oui. C'est le jour de Bastille!

[gypsy]

boy he's pretty. isn't he? those eyes.

so i didn't catch all of that, but basically guy insulted his maman and his sister. right?

so if nothing else, zidane proved his frenchness. d'artagnan would've done the same thing. sans doute. take that, mssr. le pen!

[foo]

all i know is that in hockey, it's not the captain that dirties his...er..umm head i guess in this case. you always have a stu grimson or (red wings fans) a bobby probert to take care of the trick ass shit-talkers for you. in the same way the blab has fluffy.

so don't blame Zidane, although i haven't met anyone who's upset the french lost, blame his enforcer, who failed miserably and should be cast off of Eifel.

[Quince]

C'est le jour de Bastille!

Vive la republique!

Sommaire a suivre vers la fin du jour....

[Hildegard]

boy he's pretty. isn't he? those eyes.

Yeah, but I think he's got a purdy mouth.

[Quince]

Okay, I know you don't have to understand French to use scissors. But for what it's worth, here are a few links to some perhaps juicier Zidanerie than you might otherwise have come across, especially if you have to steek to Hinglish.

This captures the highlights of the CanalPlus interview (I haven't seen the Chazal interview), and sprinkles upon them a little Eurodust you won't find in the wire stories here.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,27-2267777,00.html

This is an article that addicted me to the story of Zidane.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,1182707,00.html

This is Bernard Henri-Levy (or Bay-Ash-ELL, as they call that rockstar intello) speed-translated to make a Wall Street Journal deadline in the wake of the butt.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008636

This is the next movie I will be watching even though Betsy Pickle didn't much care for it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387898/

And this is Rachid Taha!
http://rachidtaha.artistes.universalmusic.fr/

Vive la France et nique ta mere!

[gypsy]

all of my exposure to henri-levy, including this, makes me think he is full of merde. he's almost a caricature of the gassy french intelligentsia.

[metulj]

stu grimson

Didn't he knock Bob Probert out with one punch back in the early 90s? Or was that Tie Domi?

I was raised on The 1975 Flyers. Hockey: the way it was meant to be played.

[Quince]

he's almost a caricature of the gassy french intelligentsia.

I think of him as sort of cockslinging William Shatner.

[metulj]

I think of him as sort of cockslinging William Shatner.

A metaShatner?

[Quince]

A metaShatner?

Annalist!

[gypsy]

that sounds about right. his would-be neo-tocqueville stuff for "the atlantic" was lousy.

[Quince]

his would-be neo-tocqueville stuff for "the atlantic" was lousy.

I wonder what the French think of Adam Gopnik.

[gypsy]

i'm not even sure what i think of adam gopnik.

[Quince]

i'm not even sure what i think of adam gopnik.

How French of you.

Prenez quelquechose de chaud.

[Hildegard]

so if nothing else, zidane proved his frenchness. d'artagnan would've done the same thing. sans doute. take that, mssr. le pen!

I went out with a good friend and her Italian-born husband tonight. I was civil about the WC and congratulated husband for Italy's win. I didn't mention the Z until after I'd had a glass of wine. Husband is very cool guy, laid back, mild-mannered, tough to rattle in all cases. He got a little pinched when I defended Zidane, and gave me a very gentle, soft-spoken lecture about how out of line Zidane was. I shut up and sipped my drink. Then he laughed about how while his French boss was out of town, he draped boss's office door with the Italian flag.

OK OK!! I'll drop it now.

[Raincrow]

You and tu prissy hand-wringing intellectuals give make me ze sick. Il faut que vous puke up zee guts pendant le wind sprints and be exhorteed to "suck eet up." Et alors tu veux souffrez the coups de jambe dan le solar plexus and be told to "faites le bal un extension de votre pied."

Et alors let's discuss Zidane.

Pardon Mon Canadien.