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"Christmas on a stick"?

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David, I need a favor: invent a French-Canadian name for me, please! Male. You'll get credit in my next book (as if that means anything).

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Francois Levesque.

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Thank you, sir!

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You can't study the history of Canada and ignore the Quebecois.

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I don't. M. Levesque is a key element and already had a speaking part. He just didn't have a name.

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In fact I once had a friend in Montreal who knew a few Quebecois and fed me that exact line I used that "sounded French but wasn't."

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I heard a harsh, guttural voice in the Androidal background: “Esti de câlice de tabarnak, c'est pas possible comment que t'es cave!”

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Jun 14·edited Jun 14Author

...and quite honestly...I believe I've totally forgotten what it translates to!!! But it is something nasty.

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