Sacré bleu!
A dated, stereotypical French expression of astonishment, shock, or amazement.
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Sacré bleu!
A dated, stereotypical French expression of astonishment, shock, or amazement.
Wait don’t most people have massive loaves of bread that require such devices for slicing them? No? Just me?
You make a good point there. I too have carried massive loaves of bread through the streets of Paris, and not the fictional underground Paris either! There were no bread-slicing guillotines available, though.
As I recall, french bread has quite a crust, and requires a very sharp insrument to cut proprly, and Ginsu knives haven’t been invented yet.
OK. You’ve convinced me that the guillotine is actually a bread-slicer. Now we just have to convince fictional characters in the story.
Bread? I thought they all ate cake.
Lee M, are you trying to incite a revolution?
Or a historical inacurracy?
Boring!
Boring boring!
BORRRING!
But the right thing to do.
He is a scientist, after all. Though I’m with Charlie in spirit.
Feh! Everyone with half a brain can see it’s a trap for winged serpents …
Well… Hell Yeah! Erik for the WIN!
That’s the coolest idea The Author (me) never had!
I’m going to have to come up with a Dragon-Guillotine sub-plot!
What would you bait it with?
Click Bait?
A female virgin is customary …
I see where you’re going with that, Erik, but I couldn’t do that to Charlie. Alice, on the other hand, would probably scare the dragon off.
Clearly that’s the
dragonwinged serpent’s name. It’s hard to tell in this light, but its scales are a dark blue color. And the “sacred” part comes from the fact that it perches atop a cathedral.Sacré bleu! is good name. Do you think the guy with the blunderbuss is calling Sacré bleu like you might call a pet? Like: “Sacré bleu, don’t get any flames on the furniture!”
I’ve just realized that the top banner image shows the very same winged reptile. Does this mean we can soon expect to see Alice sporting the latest in stone-age fashion?
“Soon” to The Author obviously has a different meaning than it does for most folks.
What really convinces me that it’s a bread-slicer is the lack of a yoke. If you tried to put a person in that thing, they’d be squirming around so much, it would be hard to get a clean cut. Now with bread, you don’t have any of that nonsense. At least with Civilized Bread, anyway.
Some people have to make do with barbarian bread.
The yoke is out for servicing. It will be reinstalled when duty calls 😉
Hey, mvandinter!
“Morbleu” would be a good implementation in a speech bubble for someone feeling hatred, frustration or anything more-or-less alike towards an event, place, thing or a character (it’s a swear word).
Thanks Dinjonneau. I was going for Surprise rather than hatred or frustration… as the man saying “Sacré bleu” is looking back over his shoulder at the new arrivals, and not the dragon. The trouble is that he is so tiny in the picture it’s hard to see what he’s looking at. My apologies. I’ll definitely have someone say Marbleu in an upcoming page, though.
Ooh! The dragon has pterodactyloid wings! If I’m not mistaken, anyway.