quenelle

[Jonathan Lighter]

Hey, it's 2014, when famed Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotamayor teams up
with twirkin' sex queen Miley Cyrus to drop the New Year's Ball at Times
Square as banana-flavored confetti rains on the crowd and pot is legal in
Colorado and physicists think the whole universe is just a
three-dimensional projection of some two-dimensional neo-Platonic weirdness.

Look at it that way.

JL


On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Jan 1, 2014, at 8:49 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> http://news.yahoo.com/spurs-39-parker-apologizes-39-quenelle-39-gesture-193301163--spt.html
> > :
> >
> > The photograph shows Parker and a French comedian making a gesture known
> in
> > France as a "quenelle," which critics describe as inverted [sic] Nazi
> > salute. Parker said in a statement released through the Spurs that the
> > photograph was taken three years ago.
> >
> > Said to be "anti-Semitic."
> >
> I noticed that too and was wondering what the connection is with the…well,
> go-to meaning of "quenelle", invoking restaurants or food processors.  A
> little Google searching reveals the connection:
>
> “It is the trademark of the hugely controversial French comedian Dieudonne
> M'Bala M'Bala, who once said he would like to put a quenelle - a
> rugby-ball-shaped serving of fish or meat paste - up the backside of
> Zionists.”
>
> Aren't I sorry I asked?
>
> LH
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