Funny stuff: Grand Armee Slang

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    hippacrocafish said: March 08, 2011 09:29 PM

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Arm%C3%A9e_slang

    These are slang terms used by the soldiers in Napoleon's Army, some of them are pretty funny so I thought I'd share. My favorites:

    Déjeuner à la fourchette (lunch on a fork, or eating lunch with a fork)
    a bayonet attack
    Heureux comme un poisson sur la paille (as happy as a fish in the hay)
    to be depressed
    peint à l'encaustique (painted with furniture polish)
    an inexperienced hussar (they would draw moustaches on them)
    Avoir de la garnison (having a garrison)
    to have lice
     

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    Dave Strider said: March 08, 2011 10:27 PM

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    Les sans-culottes (the no-pants)
    Scots
    when the union's inspiration through the worker's blood shall run,
    there can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun,
    yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one?
    but the union makes us strong.
     

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    Ulysses said: March 09, 2011 02:27 AM

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    I thought sans-culottes was a term used to denote the French working class revolutionaries.
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    Lowes said: March 09, 2011 02:32 AM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ulysses View Post
    I thought sans-culottes was a term used to denote the French working class revolutionaries.
    Indeed correct sir, but I think thats what gives the irony to men like the Scots whom, for reasons purely gentlemen in nature, opt not to wear trousers of any sort.
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    oberst_ag said: March 09, 2011 02:44 AM

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    Teufels ('Devils') Prussian infantry.
     

  6. worp41 said: March 09, 2011 03:53 AM

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    embrassé par une demoiselle (kissed by a young lady)
    wounded by a cannonball

    poor guy
     

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    Good ole Reb said: March 10, 2011 11:40 PM

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    Les autres chiens (the other dogs, pun for autrichiens, French for Austrians) Austrians

    Les Goddams     (the "god damns")
    British infantry.

    Entertaining fellows!
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    Prince of Darkness said: March 11, 2011 05:04 AM

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    Les Grands Chapeaux (The Big Hats): Napoleon and his Marshals.No wonder why French generals have such big bicorns in this game.
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    ronchas said: March 12, 2011 11:11 AM

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    un gigot (a leg [as in leg of lamb]) an ugly or botched amputation
     

  10. Ernest Worrel said: March 12, 2011 01:49 PM

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    Haha, these are great.

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