Thierry Godard Puns

Hey all, So, I normally post more commentary/analysis related stuff on this sub as some of you might have read, but I’ve been thinking about some of the similarities between Mad Men and another show I watched recently and thought some folks might be interested. It’s called “A French Village” (un village français) and some of you might have seen it written up in the the New York Times after it was recently released on US Amazon prime. The show takes place in Jura, France (near where they make Comté cheese) during the Nazi occupation. The show has an ensemble cast with some really enigmatically beautiful actors and actresses (Thierry Godard, Audrey Fleurot, Fabrizio Rongione, and Nade Dieu among them) many who are alums of the Wire-eque Parisian drama “Spiral”. The reason I compare “A French Village” to Mad Men is because of the inherently contradictory nature of the characters at times. It’s a generally rule of creative writing that consistency of characters helps establish who they are and is necessary for audience connection. Both these shows seem to recognize that, even if people cannot change, they often do contain multitudes and are capable of acts of both tremendous cruelty and amazing sacrifice depending on the situation. The show follows characters from resistance fighters to business collaborators, Nazi bureaucrats to communist organizers, French Jews faced with sudden danger and citizens torn between collaborating to save the vulnerable in their town and fighting against a brutal occupation. But all of these characters are treated with an unsentimental yet compassionate humanity.

Obviously, this is also a period drama like Mad Men. I sometimes think these shows are actually better at examining contemporary social dynamics, especially between men and women, because they offer us a degree of distance that keeps the plot from feeling like an accusation of one group or another in contemporary life. Not sure if that makes sense but it struck me watching both these show.

If anyone has seen it or starts watching and wants to comment on the comparison, please do post below—thanks!

Y a 2 ans on avait fait un jeu un peu malsain : prédire la mort de célébrités en 2019. Il y avait eu un thread, malheureusement, les gagnants n'ont jamais reçu leur juste récompense. C'est chose faite !

Voici comment les récompenses ont été distribuées :

1 médaille d'or si la célébrité est morte en 2019

1 médaille d'argent si la célébrité est morte en 2020

1 médaille de platine pour le prix du "joueur" qui aura prédit la mort la plus jeune, attribuée à /u/Plouky pour la prédiction de Vincent Lambert, mort à 42 ans.

1 médaille de platine pour le prix du "ça passe juste" qui prédit la mort la plus tardive en 2020 attribuée à /u/romiglups pour Robert Hossein qui a attendu le 31 décembre 2020 pour flancher.

1 médaille de platine pour la vanne qui m'a faite rire attribuée à /u/chatdecheshire pour "La Gauche"

Nous ont quitté en 2019 :

Nous ont quitté en 2020:

Et voici ceux qui restent parmi nous par ordre d'apparition dans le thread (118)

Renaud

Vincent Lagaff;Elisabeth2;Alain Delon;Line Renaud;Michel Drucker;Donald Trump;Gérard Depardieu;Cyril Hanouna;Le Dalaï lama;Prince philippe;Pierre Soulages;Roland Dumas;Elon Musk;Jean Marie Le Pen;Jean Pierre Bacri;Roi de belgique Albert 2;Reine de belgique Paola;Bouteflica;Michel Sardou;Axl Rose;Pierre Perret;Jean-Jacques Goldman;George R. R. Martin;Julian Assange;Balladur Edouard;Robert Badinter;Bernard Tapie;La Gauche;Michel Polnareff;Jacques Delors;Mireille Mathieu;Keith Richards

The funeral director was asking us what we think Mum should wear in her casket.

Mum always loved to wear sarongs (fabric wraps that go around the torso and drape downward a bit like a long skirt would), so my uncle suggested that she wear a sarong in there.

The funeral director looked a bit confused, as did some of our family members, to which my uncle added:

"What's sarong with that?"

I started laughing like an idiot. He was proud of it too. The funeral director was rather shocked. We assured her, and our more proper relatives, that Mum would've absolutely loved the joke (which is very true).

His delivery was perfect. I'll never forget the risk he took. We sometimes recall the moment as a way help cushion the blows of the grieving process.

--Edit-- I appreciate the condolences. I'm doing well and the worst is behind me and my family. But thanks :)

--Edit-- Massive thanks for all the awards and kind words. And the puns! Love 'em.

I would have a daughter

But Bill kept the Windows

True story; it even happened last night. My 5-year-old son walks up behind me and out of the blue says, "hey."

I turn to him and say, "yeah, kiddo? What's up?"

He responds, "it's dead grass."

I'm really confused and trying to figure out what's wrong and what he wants from me. "What? There's dead grass? What's wrong with that?"

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He says, totally straight-faced, "hay is dead grass," and runs off.

And then you will all be sorry.

No it doesn't.

Now it’s syncing.

You officially hit rock bottom

He replied, "Well, stop going to those places then!"

I will find you. You have my Word.

She said how do you know he was headed to work?

“thank you for your cervix.”

...sails are going through the roof.

Made me smile

Mods said I'm a cereal reposter...

A taxi

But now I stand corrected.

Wait. Sorry, wrong sub.

Wookie mistake.

Theoretical Fizz-ics

Because you can’t ‘C’ in the dark

I said, “That makes two of us.”

so I had to ground him.

He's doing better currently.

And conducting himself properly.

An assassin

Me: Can we change the subject?

My wife: Okay. More chores around the house need to be done by you.

Who buys gummy worms hoping they’d taste as close to real worms as possible?

He's currently assembling his cabinet.