"a small southwest French village where the old folks sounded remarkably Cajun and hardly ever had any contacts with Paris"....

Ton Merlot te monte à la caboche, mon pauv' vieux !

Babarotte de mes deux!
chu pas ton "pauv' vieux" eh! du con.

Thank you, Jean-Pierre, for your most dignified words :

You wrote back:

++++Babarotte de mes deux!++++

+++++ chu pas ton "pauv' vieux" eh! du con.++++

which I'll roughly translate for my dear friends on this forum. Your words are:

"Fancy, my balls !
I'm not your 'poor ole chum', hey you c.u.n.t !"

Thanks again.

My reply to your most elegant words is simply this:

Asinus asinum fricat !

But I suppose you don't understand latin, do you ?

Gerard Dole