>>Hope you read French. This is screamingly funny...

>>An international "oooops" that's causing a diplomatic stew...

>>It's because of translation that the situation happened and since translation means so much to the story, I thought French was a suitable language.

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HILARANT : TAJINE – Le chameau de Hollande est mort. Vive le chameau de Hollande !

http://lesbrindherbes.org/2013/04/09/hi ... -hollande/

mtramp 9 avril 2013 Actualité générale, Humour, Insolite

Le 28 mars, le magazine Valeurs actuelles révélait l’impensable : le chameau que François Hollande s’était vu offrir lors de sa visite triomphale à Tombouctou le 2 février a été mangé. Ce mardi, l’agence Reuters annonce une nouvelle qui devrait mettre du baume au cœur au président de la République : un nouveau chameau va lui être envoyé sous peu, et en un seul morceau, par les autorités maliennes.

« Dès que nous avons appris [le sort du premier camélidé], nous l’avons rapidement remplacé par un chameau plus gros et plus beau », a annoncé mardi à Reuters un responsable local malien. « Le nouveau chameau va être envoyé à Paris. Nous avons honte de ce qui est arrivé au chameau. C’était un cadeau qui ne méritait pas un tel sort. »

Comment le premier animal a-t-il pu finir à la casserole ? Selon les images diffusées par les chaînes de télévision, François Hollande semblait embarrassé par la personnalité de l’animal, qui blatérait sourdement et refusait obstinément les tentatives de caresses présidentielles. « Je l’utiliserai autant que je le pourrai comme moyen de transport », avait assuré en souriant le chef de l’Etat à son homologue malien, Dioncounda Traoré.

Voici le récit que fait Valeurs actuelles de la rencontre entre l’Elysée et le camélidé : « Dès que le président s’approchait de lui, l’animal hurlait. Embarrassés par ce cadeau, les services de la présidence ont d’abord fait savoir que le chameau rejoindrait un zoo par un vol militaire, après avoir été vacciné. En fait, les services consulaires ont jugé plus simple d’en faire cadeau à une famille malienne. Chaque semaine, en conseil des ministres, Jean-Yves Le Drian était néanmoins chargé de donner des nouvelles du chameau. »

Le chameau aurait donc été confié à une famille touareg des environs, avant que les autorités françaises ne perdent sa trace, conduisant le ministre de la défense à annoncer la terrible nouvelle au président. La fin tragique du camélidé présidentiel a été relatée par plusieurs titres de la presse internationale, comme le Times, le Huffington Post américain, Le Telegraph ou encore The Independent.

From Google Translate:

TAJINE - The Holland camel died. Long live the camel Holland!http://lesbrindherbes.org/2013/04/09...ollande/mtramp April 9, 2013 General News, Humor, OddOn 28 March, the Current Values ​​magazine revealed the unthinkable: the camel François Hollande was offered during his triumphal visit to Timbuktu on February 2 has been eaten. Tuesday, Reuters announces new should put heart from the President of the Republic: a new camel will be sent to him shortly, and in one piece by the Malian authorities."As soon as we learned [the fate of the first camel], we have rapidly replaced by a camel bigger and more beautiful," said Tuesday a local official told Reuters Mali. "The new camel will be sent to Paris. We are ashamed of what happened to the camel. It was a gift that did not deserve such a fate. 'How the first animal he could finish in the pan? According to images broadcast by television channels, François Hollande seemed embarrassed by the personality of the animal, which blatérait silently and stubbornly refused attempts presidential caresses. "I'll use it as much as I can as a means of transport", had assured the smiling head of state to his Malian counterpart, Dioncounda Traoré.Here is the story that is current values ​​of the encounter between the Elysee and the camel: "When the president approached him, the animal screamed. Embarrassed by this gift, the president's office initially reported that the zoo camel join a military flight after being vaccinated. In fact, the Consular felt easier to make a gift to a family in Mali. Each week, the council of ministers, Jean-Yves Le Drian was nevertheless responsible for providing new camel. 'The camel would have been assigned to a Tuareg family in the area, before the French authorities lose track of him, leading the defense minister to announce the terrible news to the president. The tragic end of presidential camelid has been reported by several international headlines, as the Times, the U.S. Huffington Post, The Telegraph or The Independent.New!

My son and I herd this story last night on the news, I missed the last part I was laughing so hard. That camel knew, knew something was not right which is why he was baying so loud, Camel stew.

Laughing so hard with tiers in my eyes laughing.

Funniest story in weeks.

River

Bon appetit (http://www.omniglot.com/soundfiles/engl ... tit_en.mp3)

I read this a couple times, and I still don't see why it's funny. Guess it's just me?

IT's a diplomatic faux pas with a camel and a tanjine.

That's not two concepts you expect to hear unless there is a diplomatic dinner.

For those who don't read French:

After France helped Mali out of the rather bad situation with terrorists this past winter by putting French troops in Mali anf fighting the terrorists, French President Hollande went to Timbuktu on a victory tour.

So the officials of Mali gave Hollande a gift of a live Camel and Hollande was so please he wanted to bering the camel back to PAris to a zoo.

However, his ambassador and the attache's did not speak the language well enough and in asking a local family to "feed" the camel, they sort of said the "camel is food" ... to be fair they put "food" and "camel" in the same sentence and the family, delighted to receive such a gift -- ate the camel... Hey, if you lived on the edge of the largest desert in the world, you'd eat any animal too.

tanjine de chameau (with lots of spices, too) (just the way Mom used to make it)

So now, everyone has diplomatic omelet on their embarrassingly red faces.

and one family has full tummies...

Oh. I get it now. Yeah, gotta watch those translations.