Coup de Boule, Coup de Boule!

The French do a lot of weird things, but sometimes they are just made out of pure awesome. You just have to admire a country that wholly embraces a soccer player who headbutts someone on an international stage, in a sport where honor, dignity and not fighting people in weird ways are still big things. Your admiration can only increase when a French band then makes up a song about the incident with a kicky, Venga-Boys-esque beat to it, and that the French then love the crap out of that song so much that it ends up number one on the charts. And the lyrics? FanTAStic.

Some folks may know about Flyboy's Headbutt of Love. He's very into expressing affection by smashing his furry little noggin into you. He tends to aim for your head, but he'll settle for your arm, leg, neck, knee, stomach, whatever, if the head is not available. It's pretty cute and actually has gotten a bit dangerous as he's gotten older and bigger...both Rich and I have taken sudden, unexpected hits and nose shots that have been a little painful. My point is that all I really want out of life right now is a picture of Flyboy photoshopped into a Zidane jersey with that headbuttin' look in his beady little eye. The ideal, of course, would be VIDEO of him headbutting various people, set to the dulcet tones of "Coupe de Boule," perhaps interspersed with footage of the Zidane headbutt itself.

So, I had my first workout with Ma's personal trainer, whom we shall call Mr. Goodbody, per Speed's nickname for him. My legs are KILLING me today, but only during the sit-to-stand transition, which is good. My arms kind of feel pissy if I poke them. Speed STILL holds the tomato pizza that Mr. Goodbody brought to last year's Christmas party against him - it's a damn thin crust pizza without eighteen pounds of grease and a whole cow on it! LEARN TO DEAL. I think almost nine months is a BIT long to hold a grudge over pizza. Heh. (Yes, I know you're kidding, DEAR.) It feels muy awesome to be working out again and such. I'll even take the sore stuff for it!

Grandad is back to standard after a brief but exciting disaster when they injected him with the radiation stuff for the brain scan. I think his body probably was just too exhausted by everything to put up with it. They had to bring in an emergency crew and everything to get him stable again, but he seems to be okay now.

I leave you with....un coup de boule. (The translation might be a little off because I'm a little rusty but I think the general effect is there.)

Attention c'est la dance du coup de boule! (Coup de boule, coup de boule!)
Watch out, it's the headbutt dance!
Coup de boule a droite! (Coup de boule, coup de boule!)
Headbutt to the right!
Coup de boule a gauche! (Coup de boule, coup de boule!)
Headbutt to the left!
Allez les bleus allez!
Go Blues, go!
Zidane il a frappe, Zidane il a tape! (coup de boule!)
Zidane hit [him], Zidane slapped [him]!
Zidane il a frappe, Zidane il a tape! (coup de boule!)
Zidane hit [him], Zidane slapped [him]!
Zidane il a frappe, Zidane il a tape! (coup de boule!)
Zidane hit [him], Zidane slapped [him]!
Zidane il a frappe, Zidane il a tape! (coup de boule!)
Zidane hit [him], Zidane slapped [him]!

Le rital il a eu mal, Zidane il l'a frappe;
The guido was hurt, Zidane hit [him];
L'italien ne va pas bien, Zidane il l'a tape;
The Italian's not doing well, Zidane slapped [him];
L'arbitre l'a vu a la tele, Zidane il 'a frappe...
The ref saw it on TV, Zidane hit him;
Mais la coupe on l'a rate, on a quand meme bien rigole!
But we lost the Cup, but we had a good time anyway!
Zidane il a frappe, Zidane il a tape! (coup de boule!)
Zidane hit [him], Zidane slapped [him]!
Zidane il a frappe, Zidane il a tape! (coup de boule!)
Zidane hit [him], Zidane slapped [him]!
Zidane il a frappe, Zidane il a tape! (coup de boule!)
Zidane hit [him], Zidane slapped [him]!
Zidane il a frappe, Zidane il a tape! (coup de boule!)
Zidane hit [him], Zidane slapped [him]!

Trezeguet n'a pas joue quand il a joue, il a rate;
Trezeguet didn't play, and when he played he sucked;
Il a tout fait capoter, la coupe on l'a rate;
He screwed up everything, we lost the World Cup;
Barthez n'a rien arrete, c'est pourtant pas complique;
Barthez didn't stop a thing, it's not complicated;
Les sponsors sont tous faches mais Chirac a bien parle...
The sponsors all were pissed, but Chirac spoke well...
Zidane il a frappe, Zidane il a tape! (coup de boule!)
Zidane hit [him], Zidane slapped [him]!
Zidane il a frappe, Zidane il a tape! (coup de boule!)
Zidane hit [him], Zidane slapped [him]!
Zidane il a frappe, Zidane il a tape! (coup de boule!)
Zidane hit [him], Zidane slapped [him]!
Zidane il a frappe, Zidane il a tape! (coup de boule!)
Zidane hit [him], Zidane slapped [him]!

Attention c'est la danse du coup de boule!
Watch out, it's the headbutt dance!
Coup de boule a droite! (Coup de boule, coup de boule!)
Headbutt to the right!
Coup de boule a gauche! (Coup de boule, coup de boule!)
Headbutt to the left!
Coup de boule a avant! (Coup de boule, coup de boule!)
Headbutt to the front!
Coup de boule a arriere! (Coup de boule, coup de boule!)
Headbutt to the back!

Et maintenant penalty, attention il va tirer...
And now it's the penalty, pay attention, he's going to shoot...
Un, deux, troiiiiiiiis...c'est rateeeeeeee!
One, two, threeeeee....he missed!
Zidane il a frappe, Zidane il a tape! (coup de boule!)
Zidane hit [him], Zidane slapped [him]!
Zidane il a frappe, Zidane il a tape! (coup de boule!)
Zidane hit [him], Zidane slapped [him]!
Zidane il a frappe, Zidane il a tape! (coup de boule!)
Zidane hit [him], Zidane slapped [him]!
Zidane il a frappe, Zidane il a tape! (coup de boule!)
Zidane hit [him], Zidane slapped [him]!

On a quand meme bien rigole, Zidane et Trezeguet!
We had a good time anyway, Zidane and Trezeguet!
La coupe on l'a rate, Zidane et Trezequet!
We lost the World Cup, Zidane et Trezequet!
On a quand meme bien rigole, Zidane et Trezeguet!
We had a good time anyway, Zidane and Trezeguet!
La coupe on l'a rate, Zidane et Trezequet!
We lost the World Cup, Zidane et Trezeguet!
Et Trezequet et Trezequet et Trezequet!
And Trezeguet, and Trezeguet, and Trezeguet!