My favorite protest sign, ever. (Requires French to get it.)

[Recursion]

From protests in France a few years ago:

"Carla, on est comme toi. On se fait nique par le chef d'etat".

This is the spirit our signs need.

[Spider Jerusalem]

1. I dunno, why bring his wife into it in the first place?

Not like she's the president of France after all.

[msanthrope]

2. Not just French, but a working knowledge of certain sex acts, and their idomatic peculiarities. nt

[Brickbat]

3. Meh.

[Hoppy]

4. Requires French to read it, eh?

Who cares what those cheese eating, surrender monkeys have to say?

[TlalocW]

5. Great, we now know you know French

How about translating it for the rest of us?

TlalocW

[Sheldon Cooper]

6. From babylon:

"Carla, it is like unto thee. There is picnic by the head of state".

Hi-fucking-larious, I guess.

[TlalocW]

8. I guess I just don't get the French

Obviously, escargot has poisoned their minds, and they're just speaking nonsense.

TlalocW

[Sheldon Cooper]

12. I'm guessing it has something to do with Carla Bruni, wife of former French president

Nicolas Sarkozy. And the picnic part: who knows? Someone has intimated that the sign might reference a sex act, which I will leave to your imagination.

I still don't get the joke, but whatever.

[liberalhistorian]

9. Huh?

WTF? That makes no fucking sense. Just because something's in French, that doesn't automatically make it erudite and witty.

[Spider Jerusalem]

11. Actual sign and translation:

Carla ne te la racontes pas, On se fait tous baiser par le chef de l'Etat! ("Carla, it's not just you, we're all being fucked by the president."

[Sheldon Cooper]

13. Ahhh. Thanks for the info.

[TlalocW]

14. Maybe it sounds wittier in French

I understand there's a certain je ne sais quoi (see what I did there?) that's lost when translating from one language to another, but the sign doesn't sound that clever to me.

TlalocW

[raccoon]

7. How do you say, "Where are the bathrooms of yesterday?" nt

[Spider Jerusalem]

10. Ou sont les pissoirs d'antan?