Succes?
"For me it's a great success and not a failure."
I successfully didnt swim the channel too - can I have my medal?
English Channel defeats one-armed Frenchman
A one-armed Frenchman came tantalisingly close to swimming the English Channel on Monday, but was defeated when strong currents "dragged him off his planned route" within sight of the French coast, Reuters reports. Retired carpenter Olivier Desmet, 56, lost his left forearm in a motorbike accident back in 1976. He said he'd …
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Sink the Bismarck
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).
Frenchman ....Swimming?
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
Channel
Once again the channel saves us from this wannabe Canutes!
It's not Olden.. It's Golden
What do you call an man with no legs and no arms swimming the Channel....
Clever DIck!!
My heart goes out...
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.
In sight of the french coast..
So did he get off the beach then?
typical French Success then...
(ah the good old google Im feeling lucky trick)
Round and round...
With only one arm, doesn't he swim in circles?
Yes yes, I'll get my coat...
Title
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.
In other news...
One-eyed milkman arrested for filming himself driving at 150kph on a drugs run...
Some armless fun
At least he brought along a friend to give him a hand.
Beer and chips...
...just as well all that beer didn't leave him legless
Surely...
He would just swim around in circles anyway?
Sorry.
Going in circles?
No wonder he had trouble, he was just going in circles!
I kid, I kid...
@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!
Round of applause
I think he should give himself a big round of applause.
Oh !
strong currents "dragged him off his planned route"
My friend drowned in a bowl of muesli. A strong currant pulled him in.
The IT Angle is...
calculating the circumference of the circles he swam in!.
Mine's the one with the pinned up sleeve.
Yeah, Right!
This guy has more balls than all the tosssers who knock him here Gary
Beat the Reaper
"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?
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! :)
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.)
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.
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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