Cornichon
Which I believe is Frenchist for gherkin. Partly because calling someone 'mon petit cornichon' doesn't immediately sound like an insult.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 17 Feb 2011, 10:00, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

I like this
See also "poubelle" and "cochon d'Inde".
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 17 Feb 2011, 10:02, Reply)

Turns out the French are useful for something after all

(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 17 Feb 2011, 10:03, Reply)

The Merovingian:
"Fantastic language. Especially to curse with. Nom de dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperie de connard d'enculé de ta mère. It's like wiping your arse with silk. I love it."
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 17 Feb 2011, 10:06, Reply)

GQOTD
Although I suspect you've purloined it from somewhere rather than remembered it, due to the presence of accents an' that
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 17 Feb 2011, 10:12, Reply)

IMDB innit
I remembered a chunk of it, but couldn't remember all the French. Plus it's quicker to copypasta.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 17 Feb 2011, 10:13, Reply)

Fair play
Now translate it, bitch
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 17 Feb 2011, 10:26, Reply)

...
something about God, a whore in a brothel, shit, I'm not sure what that one is, possibly a ski slope?, something about a duck's mother.

I could be wrong.
(berk, Thu 17 Feb 2011, 10:37, Reply)

Google translate gets everything
but loses the sense a little.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 17 Feb 2011, 10:39, Reply)

A saloperie I imagine is also a whorehouse
I think "une salope" is a bitch. But I'm often wrong.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 17 Feb 2011, 10:39, Reply)

Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
/geek-quote (Alan Perlis if anyone cares)
(BrianHequator was stretching owls, on, or around, Thu 17 Feb 2011, 10:32, Reply)

I am reliably informed
that a pea-greenish colour is called 'goose shit' in french.
(berk, Thu 17 Feb 2011, 10:05, Reply)

The tiny chillies that a lot of Thai food is cooked with
Are known as "mouse shit chillies" in Thailand.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 17 Feb 2011, 10:06, Reply)

there's a type of sea urchin in Japan
that is served in sushi places called 'horseshit urchin'. Apparently that's the really good stuff.
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Thu 17 Feb 2011, 10:10, Reply)