Sunday, November 29, 2009

Rowing

Girls rowing in the Grand Canal, Versailles, France

Attempt at rowing in the Grand Canal
Château de Versailles (Palace of Versailles)
France, July 2009

7 comments:

  1. How do you do a smilie that sticks its tongue out in a very un-Versailles and inelegant way? ;-))
    No wonder they aren't rowing, one of them spotted you and thinks you're a paparazzi.

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  2. Why do you say "attempt"? Weren't they rowing so good? Methinks these are some "babes" out sunning themselves and not into serious oarsmanship!

    I love Ciel's comment! Are you a paparazzi?

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  3. @ Jacob - I could support my tentative rowing theory with many more pictures of them.
    Like many other foreign words paparazzi has a life of its own in English, but in Italian it would still be plural so, at most, I was a paparazzo...

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  4. I'd like to see more pictures...when I enlarge this, it appeared to me that you were probably right - these "babes" had no clue what they were doing...

    Thanks for the info on paparazzi vs. paparazzo. And yes, certain language words and phrases do become a wee bit skewed over here...but then most of our young 'un's can't speak proper English anyway so why would anyone expect them to speak another language correctly? :-)

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  5. Oops, I should have known that because it's "les" paparazzi en français.

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  6. It could be the Lady of Shallot with a few friends. Very nice!

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