Le Chat au bacon

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1. Celsius1414 says:
   February 16, 2009 at 3:25 pm

   First line: “Nom : bacon, le bacon, the bacon.” Ha! Nom, indeed.
2. The Pathetic Earthling says:
   February 16, 2009 at 3:26 pm

   “enrouler le chat de bacon” — it makes it sound so sophisticated!
3. JReynolds says:
   February 16, 2009 at 3:28 pm

   This weekend, The Toronto Star> had an article called Why the zeitgeist suddenly smells so wonderful. About bacon, needless to say.

   I was saddened that it didn’t mention the Bacon Cat.
4. Romeo Vitelli says:
   February 16, 2009 at 3:32 pm

   And the sad part is that the French will end up claiming to have invented it.
5. Irene Delse says:
   February 16, 2009 at 3:34 pm

   Ouch! John, John, if you absolutely need a bit of French silliness, here, at least use real French, please…

   Like that: “Le Chat au bacon”.

   ‘Cause if you say “Le Chat de Bacon”, it looks like you mean “the cat of Bacon”. Imagine a Bacon painting of a bacon-covered cat… The horror!

   Paintings that look like an explosion in a butcher shop are painful. So is pseudo Frenchery.
6. John Scalzi says:
   February 16, 2009 at 3:37 pm

   Oh, you and your demands for grammatically correct French! Fine. Fixing now.
7. hugh says:
   February 16, 2009 at 3:40 pm

   Does that mean you may have to rename your cat to “Freedom Cat”?
8. John H says:
   February 16, 2009 at 3:48 pm

   They of course had the obligatory bacon bra as well, but I don’t know why they thought to bring Monty Python into the discussion — it isn’t spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans and spam…
9. Warren Terra says:
   February 16, 2009 at 3:59 pm

   Here is a Google Translator Link for any other people who never learned French.
10. nathan says:
    February 16, 2009 at 4:09 pm

    Oh no, you di’int!

    -The International Internet Bacon-Abatement Coalition.
11. Kate Baker says:
    February 16, 2009 at 4:09 pm

    Zomg at the erotic bacon bikini!

    Be better and a lot more fun if it was cooked, but I think that would kinda hurt.
12. Chris says:
    February 16, 2009 at 4:14 pm

    I thought the bacon bikini was kinda hot, in a gross raw bacon way…
13. Will says:
    February 16, 2009 at 4:41 pm

    But it really would have to be a French blog that dissects the history of the bacon meme – what next Baudrillard on Bacon?
14. Katie says:
    February 16, 2009 at 4:59 pm

    The bacon is even launched. At least it is the opinion of Scalzi, who claimed paternity of the thing.

    Mhahahahaa!!! I love loosely translated text!
15. ioresult says:
    February 16, 2009 at 5:10 pm

    Katie’s loose translation:
    “The bacon is even launched.”
    Yes, in French, “meme” is the same as the English “meme”, but the translator took the word for “même” which tranlsates to “even”.
    So the exact translation should be: “The bacon meme is launched.”
    And Scalzi claimed paternity of the meme.
16. John Scalzi says:
    February 16, 2009 at 5:18 pm

    I did no such thing. Others have claimed I have. But the Internet loved bacon long before I taped it to my cat.
17. ioresult says:
    February 16, 2009 at 5:22 pm

    Hey I’m just translating here! Don’t shoot the messenger!
18. nathan says:
    February 16, 2009 at 5:59 pm

    You people are clearly disregarding my pleas to cease and desist any further mockery of bacon.

    There will be consequences!

    -The International Internet Bacon-Abatement Coalition.
19. DG Lewis says:
    February 16, 2009 at 8:29 pm

    Bacon? Isn’t he the guy who wrote Shakespeare’s plays?
20. George William Herbert says:
    February 16, 2009 at 9:07 pm

    DG Lewis @19

    No, that was Sir Francis Scrapple.
21. JReynolds says:
    February 16, 2009 at 9:07 pm

    @19: I think that you’ll find that John Scalzi actually wrote Shakespeare’s plays.
22. hugh57 says:
    February 16, 2009 at 10:04 pm

    JReynolds: I think that you’ll find that John Scalzi actually wrote Shakespeare’s plays.

    In the original Klingon, no less.
23. Dane says:
    February 16, 2009 at 10:46 pm

    Somehow this seems to have slipped past you (at least, a search for “toxel” on your site doesn’t turn up anything)…

    http://www.toxel.com/tech/2008/12/20/gadgets-and-designs-inspired-by-bacon/
24. Tully says:
    February 17, 2009 at 12:48 am

    At least they got the obligatory Homer Simpon reference in….
25. ioresult says:
    February 17, 2009 at 9:45 am

    Mr Scalzi, you’ll be happy to note that the Figaro blog post has been edited to take your comment #16 into account!
26. John Scalzi says:
    February 17, 2009 at 9:56 am

    That’s awesome.
27. iain says:
    February 17, 2009 at 10:00 am

    Can bacon help repair 8 years of strained Franco-American relations? Should bacon cat be loaned out to Hillary for her diplomatic mission?
28. Johnny Carruthers says:
    February 17, 2009 at 10:04 am

    Can you get a translation of the blog?
29. Nathalie says:
    February 17, 2009 at 12:46 pm

    “Tout est meilleur avec des bardes de lard fumé.”
    it doesn’t quite roll out of the mouth as easily as “Everything is better with bacon”, does it?
30. John Scalzi says:
    February 17, 2009 at 12:51 pm

    English FTW! As regards bacon, anyway.
31. Karen Funk Blocher says:
    February 18, 2009 at 5:23 pm

    I entered “Figaro Bacon” into Google as a way to get to a “translate this page” option. The first result is “Figaro v. Bacon-Green – Florida Personal Injury Lawyers.” Clearly Figaro is playing with fire here.
32. Matt says:
    February 19, 2009 at 4:31 pm

    Je ne suis pas parlez vous francais!!!

    (Lord, I have NO idea if I spelled any of that correctly, but it’s been nearly 30 years since Junior High French class).

    Wish I could unnerstand what them commie pinko frenchie types wuz saying (snark now off).

    It’s probably something like “Ohhhhh, look at what ze silly English types are doing now” “We must protect ze French culture from zees abomination”
33. Géraud says:
    February 20, 2009 at 5:33 am

    Matt @32

    Maybe it wasn’t a request, but here is how to say it : “Je ne parle pas français.”
    What you wrote can be accurately tranlslated in: “No, I’m not do you speak french”
34. Jessie says:
    June 15, 2009 at 9:11 am

    Oh my God!
    Where’d you FIND this stuff?
    It’s awesome, I love it!
    The bacon bikini is officially sick!
    Sorry to all you boys, but it’s the truth!
    Great example, Géraud.

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