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L’amouv

Posted by Helen Killer

74 comments

- Submitted by Candi

Ah, Bon Jovi, the language of love.

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Feb 9, 2010
4:33 pm

#1 ohboycattoy :

hehe!

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Feb 9, 2010
4:35 pm

#2 Wilma Fingerdoo :

This one is livin on a prayer if it gets sold.

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Feb 9, 2010
4:36 pm

#3 greenfuzz :

who the hell doesn’t know it’s bonjour? Didn’t they have a brand of jeans named Bonjour in the 70’s? Then again Etsy illiteracy shouldn’t surprise me at this point.

Rate this comment: +60

Feb 9, 2010
4:36 pm

#4 sudabaki© :

Oh crap, I could love this. Why does it have to say Bonjouv???

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Feb 9, 2010
4:38 pm

#5 pantsmonkey :

You might even say it gives love a bad name.

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Feb 9, 2010
4:39 pm

#6 batontwirler1 :

Sounds like something Inspector Jacques Clouseau would say.

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Feb 9, 2010
4:40 pm

#7 Sculptor69 :

Why do I think she believes these cards commemorate a journey to/through the landmark, rather than the fact that the stamp merely *names* it (en Francais)?

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Feb 9, 2010
4:46 pm

#8 Vile & Evil Debbie Downer :

If you squint real hard, it kinda looks like ‘Borgnine’, who – as everyone in France knows – once climbed the Eiffel Tower.

I’m curious though – did she hand-burn the edges of those postcards?

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Feb 9, 2010
4:49 pm

#9 batontwirler1 :

You could give this to your paramouv at the top of La Touv Eiffel at rush houv.

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Feb 9, 2010
4:50 pm

#10 Lola :

How can one possibly know that “bonjouv” is French and not know that it is “bonjour”? Then again, she probably asks what the soupe du joun of the day is, too…

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Feb 9, 2010
4:50 pm

#11 Patty has been abuducted by an alien :

What the- where are the individual coffee stains?

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Feb 9, 2010
4:51 pm

#12 sudabaki© :

I love this shop. Here’s coffee stain done right.

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_2&listing_id=40063277

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Feb 9, 2010
4:51 pm

#13 sudabaki© :

How eerie Patty, we were posting at the same time!

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Feb 9, 2010
4:54 pm

#14 Patty has been abuducted by an alien :

Great minds, suda, great minds.

In my case, it would be the two and a half Vicodin pills I took about an hour ago… what’s your poison?

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Feb 9, 2010
4:59 pm

#15 Wilma Fingerdoo :

Patty, Suda – I hope you enjoyed your Wayne’s World moment.

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Feb 9, 2010
4:59 pm

#16 HelenaHandbasket :

I guess Bonjouv makes as much sense as the French “hello” for a Valentine’s gifting sentiment.

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Feb 9, 2010
5:00 pm

#17 Thistle :

oooh oooh pretty please patty! ::sits up an begs::

oh, and it looks like “bono jizz” to me, but my mind is just dirty like that

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Feb 9, 2010
5:02 pm

#18 IscreamUscream :

good grief!

this deserves some red correction marks and a nasty comment…I’ll give someone else the challenge.

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Feb 9, 2010
5:03 pm

#19 sudabaki© :

Patty, sugar high is my poison. My pants don’t like it but my mood does.

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Feb 9, 2010
5:04 pm

#20 pantsmonkey :

Oh, l’amouv! What’s a boy in love supposed to do?

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Feb 9, 2010
5:05 pm

#21 BettyMachete :

All that handstampin’ got lost in translation, toots.
But, Happy Ralentine’s Day.

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Feb 9, 2010
5:05 pm

#22 sudabaki© :

#18 IscreamUscream: I wasn’t kidding when I said I love this shop. Someone else has to do it. Hmmmm, but if I were to somehow incorporate Mittens….

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Feb 9, 2010
5:12 pm

#23 Monstrosa :

ooh! It is a great shop. I freakin’ love those bunnies!

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Feb 9, 2010
5:13 pm

#24 Wilma Fingerdoo :

#22 Sudabaki- I actually like most of this shop too.

: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=40063287
This one has me nostalgic. Reminds me of the time my son (then 2) ate a robin’s egg he found on the ground, thinking it was a pastel blue peanut M&M. He cried “bad candy” as the embryo ran out of his mouth.

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Feb 9, 2010
5:14 pm

#25 razberries :

didn’t you guys know that bon jovi was french???
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27900808@N06/4344339251/

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Feb 9, 2010
5:14 pm

#26 clevercat :

All I can say is “Wah Lah!”

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Feb 9, 2010
5:14 pm

#27 Monstrosa :

#24 Wilma Fingerdoo :
That’s the cutest story that ever made me want to throw up.

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Feb 9, 2010
5:15 pm

#28 clevercat :

#24 Wilma Fingerdoo *cat is throwing up a little gin in her mouth*

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Feb 9, 2010
5:16 pm

#29 clevercat :

oh crap! what it is symbiosis night?

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Feb 9, 2010
5:16 pm

#30 IscreamUscream :

Suda, et al–agreed, it’s a nice shop! Who hasn’t heard “Bonjour” before?

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Feb 9, 2010
5:17 pm

#31 steviesegel :

parlay voo francay?

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Feb 9, 2010
5:17 pm

#32 mtopia :

Did someone actually go through the trouble of gluing that picture to some cardstock, handstamping the date, “distressing” the edges, and adding a ribbon just to forget to double check the spelling? Wahlah!

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Feb 9, 2010
5:18 pm

#33 Monstrosa :

#29 clevercat :
Im in ur brain
stealin ur snark

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Feb 9, 2010
5:20 pm

#34 Wilma Fingerdoo :

#27- Monstrosa:
Thanks. After I called the pediatrician (and listened to the snickering in the background, knowing I was put on the scary parent to watch list), I felt much better when the doc said “disgusting- yes, dangerous- probably not”.

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Feb 9, 2010
5:20 pm

#35 clevercat :

aagggggghhh just please don’t take the gin

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Feb 9, 2010
5:21 pm

#36 littykidder :

By jore,I think she’s got something here, nicely done.

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Feb 9, 2010
5:23 pm

#37 thatjennchick :

I’m pretty sure that stamp does say “bonjour” she’s just reading it wrong LOL.

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Feb 9, 2010
5:25 pm

#38 Monstrosa :

#35 clevercat : I’ll stick with vodka and wahlah.

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Feb 9, 2010
5:28 pm

#39 BettyMachete :

Wilma- that is such a great egg stealing story!(and you should have scolded him that ALL candy is bad/evil) Ever get removed from that ’scary parent to watch’ list? If so, provide helpful hints.

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Feb 9, 2010
5:32 pm

#40 detroit :

You all ave veally a bunch of sovvy jevks! Vegvetsy can kiss my avse!!

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Feb 9, 2010
5:33 pm

#41 Sculptor69 :

Ooh, I got some thumbs-down!
Anyway, I’m wondering what she’d do with toile. Toil? Toilet? Twahl? Meh, whatever. Gal’s got great visual arts skills, just not so much on literacy of cursive writing.

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Feb 9, 2010
5:34 pm

#42 detroit :

Wilma! LMAO!! (glad your son lived!). A great story for future telling his dates! Mwahhwahhah!

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Feb 9, 2010
5:41 pm

#43 Thistle :

#20 pantsmonkey: i suggest that you mastuvbate.

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Feb 9, 2010
6:06 pm

#44 Wilma Fingerdoo :

#39- Betty, dear sista:

Candy
Is dandy
But liquor
Is quicker.

Words to live by, dear Ogden Nash.

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Feb 9, 2010
6:11 pm

#45 starrydreams :

Damnit!!! Why is shipping to Canada more expensive???!!!!

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Feb 9, 2010
6:16 pm

#46 BettyMachete :

#41 Sculptor- we all get thumbs down. It makes us wittier with each new entry. (or so the voices in my head tell me)
#44 Wilma- I love words to drink by

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Feb 9, 2010
6:31 pm

#47 sudabaki© :

Oh Wilma, that story is awful/hysterical. And it sounds exactly like something my now 4 year old would have done. Her thing was chewing every piece of used gum she ever came across.

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Feb 9, 2010
7:20 pm

#48 ckinsobe :

OMD

(Oh Mon Dieu)

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Feb 9, 2010
7:49 pm

#49 carecaribou :

Hahaha! At least s/he fixed it.

Heh.

“Bonjouv.”

Cracks me up.

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Feb 9, 2010
7:52 pm

#50 sudabaki© :

Oh thank god, everything is right with the world again.

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Feb 9, 2010
8:00 pm

#51 ThisJustMakesMeSad :

Yeah, she fixed it so I guess I didn’t really need to smack myself in the forehead. Very pretty tags but I’m still shaking my head…

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Feb 9, 2010
8:24 pm

Maybe she’s myopic and didn’t realize she had mistyped it. The V and the R are typed by the same finger. So it happened twice…. fine, whatever. I tried.

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Feb 9, 2010
9:18 pm

#53 Skully :

I agree Suda, this is a common typo, esp. since keyboards can be Slippery When Wet.

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Feb 9, 2010
9:26 pm

#54 Jonathan :

It’s all good.

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Feb 9, 2010
10:02 pm

#55 whaapplewha :

Oh man… I was all set to make a Bon Jori crack but Helen, ya beat me to it.

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Feb 9, 2010
11:24 pm

#56 Feel Free To Customise and Whimsiclise My Vagina :

ROFL Killer, “Bon jovi”

jesus christ woman you’re a crack up

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Feb 10, 2010
12:56 am

#57 PinwheelPeeWee :

Really? Is no one going to comment on the use of “a” rather than “an” preceding “old postcard?”

Well, in that case, I am disappointed in you posters. I will be going to find a other snarky website to develop a addiction to.

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Feb 10, 2010
1:06 am

#58 snarkeygirl :

#37 thatjennchick I agree! I think the seller misread the stamp… it’s not wrong. Also Wilma, “He cried “bad candy” as the embryo ran out of his mouth.” I can visualize/feel that, and it is awful! Hysterical, but awful!

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Feb 10, 2010
1:44 am

#59 Feel Free To Customise and Whimsiclise My Vagina :

HElen is the regretsy book going to be available in borders in australia or other bookshops?

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Feb 10, 2010
1:47 am

#60 Helen Killer :

@ #59 I’m pretty sure they’ll be sitting in piles outside your local recycling center.

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Feb 10, 2010
2:59 am

#61 Feel Free To Customise and Whimsiclise My Vagina :

#60 ROFL

So thats a yes? Do you know for sure or is it just USA

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Feb 10, 2010
6:20 am

#62 firedandfree :

I can’t seem to tell from the description — are these cards stamped?

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Feb 10, 2010
6:25 am

#63 lemon floor wax :

I have that stamp, it’s definitely “Bonjour” but I could see how someone would be confused. After all, we don’t use many French words every day. Now excuse me while I put on my rouge and order some pie a la mode from the a la carte menu before heading to see that Art Nouveau exhibit. That reminds me, I have to have my au pair clean the chaise lounge. My kid spilled cafe au lait on it and it’s faux fur. (Hmm, I have a strange feeling of deja vu here.)

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Feb 10, 2010
8:16 am

#64 Recovering Crack Baby :

LOVEY the peek at the cover- can you peel back a little more- show us your stuff lady.

Seriassly is it April yet? Did you do that on purpose or is the fact that the month your book is released the same as your name just one of those things that happens

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Feb 10, 2010
8:24 am

#65 Moons in Leo :

No wonder the French hate us.

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Feb 10, 2010
8:25 am

#66 Moons in Leo :

Ha ha! Seems Bonjouv has been changed to Bonjour.

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Feb 10, 2010
8:49 am

#67 hoser :

#63 Lemon floor wax : one word TouchÉ !!!

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Feb 10, 2010
8:51 am

#68 hoser :

I also nominate Bon Jovi as the new name of the miss-interepreted/use of the french language !

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Feb 10, 2010
9:41 am

#69 IscreamUscream :

@LFW

It’s safe to say–bad handwriting doesn’t look any better “en français”.

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Feb 10, 2010
10:31 am

#70 MAG :

#10…try the soup de jour…I had it yesterday, it was delicious.

Wow…burnt postcards are worth something…I was just using them as tinder!

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Feb 10, 2010
1:09 pm

#71 twatsupcock :

I think this artist should be shot down in a blaze of glory. . . or else, become a little runaway. Forgive me, my mind gets a little slippery when wet.

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Feb 10, 2010
2:54 pm

#72 crazycatlady :

I don’t get it. That’s how they speak in Pavis, Fvance.

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Feb 10, 2010
8:05 pm

#73 MaryBeth :

EVERYONE is familiar with the word “bonjour” – what it means, how it is pronounced and how it is spelled.

Well everyone except for one person.

au revoiv

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Feb 11, 2010
12:00 am

#74 crapgawker :

Viva la Fvance!

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