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Originally Posted by padrino
"Oui bien sûr, mais la vérité est drôle comme l'enfer" yes of course, but the truth is funny as hell 
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I’m sorry but that word-for-word translation doesn’t exist in French.
You might say “rigolo comme tout” or “ C’est une drôle d’histoire” or “ça me fait rigoler” but sadly, our rendition doesn’t work.
I am on a Peach Parts-like website in France for Citroëns and I understand what the Merkins say when they try the word-for-word translation in their posts . The French send back a giant “HUH?”. Or at least the more polite ones do. There’s one self-styled big important guy in the Cit community in the US who fancies himself the be-all-and-know-all, they shut him down repeatedly on the French website just like I would expect the members of this group to do, with a snotty foreigner.
The real be-all—and-know-all was an American named Don aka “ Red “ Dellinger who operated a Citroën dealership, spoke fluent French and was as nice as this guy is snobbish. I knew Red for years before he died and helped find the history and service records of his uncle who was killed during the Battle of the Bulge.
And so it goes.
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1950 170SD
1951 Citroen 11BN
1953 Citroen 11BNF limo
1953 220a project
1959 180D
1960 190D
1960 Borgward Isabella TS 2dr
1983 240D daily driver
1983 380SL
1990 350SDL daily driver alt
3 x Citroen DS21M, down from 5
3 x Citroen 2CV, down from 6
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