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English Channel defeats one-armed Frenchman

Ashley Pomeroy

Sink the Bismarck 

Paris Hilton

I have a vision of him going around in a big circle, what with having one arm - but it could be that he has a centrally-mounted arm, perhaps e.g. coming out of his back, like a shark's fin (the article doesn't say).

Anonymous Coward

And the IT angle.... 

Dead Vulture

....is?

Mike Somers

Frenchman ....Swimming? 

Paris Hilton

Surely said Frenchman must have been using the backstroke going to wrong way. Were the chips covered in garlic and cheese like most other food in France, also beer - they only know how to drink wine I thought

Paris because she likes going the wrong way with a back-stroke

Matthew

Channel 

Thumb Up

Once again the channel saves us from this wannabe Canutes!

Anonymous Coward

It's not Olden.. It's Golden 

Joke

What do you call an man with no legs and no arms swimming the Channel....

Clever DIck!!

XML slave

My heart goes out... 

Linux

I'd love to make a comment about silly french accents and all, but I'm a little too impressed by the thought of a one armed man coming that close to crossing. I have two arms and can't swim more than 1/2 a kilo. Someone buy that man an ale.

Anonymous Coward

In sight of the french coast.. 

Alert

So did he get off the beach then?

typical French Success then...

(ah the good old google Im feeling lucky trick)

John

Round and round... 

Coat

With only one arm, doesn't he swim in circles?

Yes yes, I'll get my coat...

Andy Kay

Succes? 

"For me it's a great success and not a failure."

I successfully didnt swim the channel too - can I have my medal?

Anonymous Coward

Title 

Coat

Would the French immigration authorities allow him back in? Presumably he is not much of a threat. He seems mostly armless anyway.

Already on my way out.

TeeCee

His entry in HHGTTG? 

Coat

"Mostly armless."

Anonymous Coward

In other news... 

Coat

One-eyed milkman arrested for filming himself driving at 150kph on a drugs run...

Michael O'Malley

Some armless fun 

Joke

At least he brought along a friend to give him a hand.

Andrew

Beer and chips... 

IT Angle

...just as well all that beer didn't leave him legless

Simon

Surely... 

Stop

He would just swim around in circles anyway?

Sorry.

Ron

Going in circles? 

Coat

No wonder he had trouble, he was just going in circles!

I kid, I kid...

Anonymous Coward

@Mike Somers 

Yup, he was standing on the beach, and we told him the Germans were coming... Next thing we knew he was in the water and swimming round in circles!

Anonymous Coward

Round of applause 

Coat

I think he should give himself a big round of applause.

Oh !

Damn Yank

Now that... 

..... is a cheeky little f**ker.

Anonymous John

strong currents "dragged him off his planned route" 

Joke

My friend drowned in a bowl of muesli. A strong currant pulled him in.

mutt1170

The IT Angle is... 

Coat

calculating the circumference of the circles he swam in!.

Mine's the one with the pinned up sleeve.

Glenn Amspaugh

"And the IT angle is..." 

Thumb Up

Chips and beer?

Treacle

Bootnote^2 

Bootnote to a bootnote... nice one.

Gary

Yeah, Right! 

This guy has more balls than all the tosssers who knock him here Gary

Daniel Wilkie

@Gary 

Heart

Less arms though...

Ashley Pomeroy

Beat the Reaper 

Paris Hilton

"And the IT angle is?"

It's a story about a one-armed Frenchman who has narrowly failed to swim the English channel. I can't think of a more IT-relevant story. What more IT angle do you need?

Big_Boomer

Surely he swam the Sleeve? 

Since he is French, he will have swum "La Manche", or more precisely not swum "La Manche". That man has "les grandes couilles!"

Can any of you pisstakers swim for 14½ hours in cold water with one arm tied behind your back? Nah, didn't think so. Yer a bunch of overweight mouse pushers. And yes, I'm an overweight mouse pusher too! :)

M Neligan

wannabe Canutes 

This page doesn't seem to lack "wannabe Canutes", if you drop a couple of letters. (And he was actually also called Cnut and even Knut.)

Andy Turner

Sheesh, give it a rest 

Geeks wouldn't know a joke if it slapped them in the face. I've never read such a stream of utter drivel. There's a reason you're not all comedians you know.

Gavin

How close did he get? 

Just how close was he to making it across? Was he an arms length away from success?

*i'll get my coat*

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