Our French teacher taught us that French kids only get one egg at Easter
The reason? Because in France one egg is un oeuf.

Sadly, I'm still sniggering at this nearly 20 years later.
( GarbageFan didn't know what to have as a board sig on, Wed 4 Feb 2009, 21:17, 3 replies)

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Die.
(powervator and NONE SHALL PASS, Wed 4 Feb 2009, 23:15, closed)

True story... no really.
When I was very young, we occasionally had a French student staying in our spare room over the summer - there was some sort of summer school for French kids nearby or something, and they were put up around the village.

One year a girl name Isabelle came to stay with us. After dinner on the evening she arrived, my mum asked her "Have you had enough?".

She looked a bit puzzled, and said no, but was quite adamant that she didn't want any more.

This happened every mealtime, and every time she looked a bit more bewildered - eventually she cracked after about two weeks, and asked my mum why she was so obsessed with eggs.
(Photon wasting your time since, Thu 5 Feb 2009, 0:18, closed)

That's a Dad Joke if I ever heard one
...and my dad still gets a stupid grin whenever he repeats it upon making an omelette, etc.
(AlfishKK, Thu 5 Feb 2009, 1:27, closed)