Posted on 12/12/2006 5:17:04 AM PST by MadIvan
A Bath woman convinced herself she was French after she developed a rare disorder.
Louise Clarke, 30, a recruitment consultant, babbled away in French for weeks, according to the Sun.
She demanded croissants, rang her pals to tell them she was living in Paris and even invited them over.
Louise said: "It might sound funny to others, but suddenly thinking you are French is terrifying."
She had been in France four years before becoming one of only four people in Britain, and 200 in the world, to be diagnosed with Susac's syndrome.
The brain disorder, which can be brought on by stress, is thought to affect blood vessels leading to the brain, ears and eyes and can scramble memories.
Louise is now controlling it with steroids and other medication and has been told it can last up to five years.
She said: "It was a really tough time for my family. At one point my sister discovered I had phoned all my friends and told them to come and visit me in Paris. She had to ring them all back to explain what had happened."
On the contrary. If you gave up, you are French.
That's a Texabotomy; if you live here for more than a year, They track you down and inject Lone Star and Shiner Bock directly into your brain.
Thank god They haven't caught me yet...
She said: "It was a really tough time for my family. At one point my sister discovered I had phoned all my friends and told them to come and visit me in Paris. She had to ring them all back to explain what had happened."
Should we send, perhaps, a "Get Welsh Soon" card?
The local army depot reported that she showed up and surrendered to them on seventeen separate occasions...
Words and Music by Joe Ely
My Baby Thinks She's French
My Baby Thinks She's French
She plays a spanish guitar
At the coffee bar
She's takin' self-defence
My Baby Thinks She's French
She like the rose perfume
In the afternoon with her chocolate mints
She thinks she's French she likes to kiss and kiss
Her Flame is hard to Quench!
My Baby Thinks She's French
My Baby Thinks She's French
She drive a citroen car
She sings me Ooo wa wa
She's prone to accidents
My Baby Thinks She's French
Well its Paris this
And its Paris that, it makes me cringe
She thinks she's French she likes to kiss and kiss
Her Flame is hard to quench!
My Baby Thinks She's French
My Baby Thinks She's French
She reads Madamoselle
and when the clock strikes twelve
she wants to give me a pinch.....
My Baby Thinks She's French
She's a Texas doll
She likes shopping malls where the mood is French
With a southern drawl
They say come back y'all
and they never even flench!
My Baby Thinks She's French
My Baby Thinks She's French
She wants to start a fire
In the Eifel Tower
She's lost all common sense!!
My Baby Thinks She's French
She likes the Moulin Rouge
when the sun shines thru
she seldom squints....
she breeds magnificence
And how many of these French wanna-be's work at the US State Deparment?
Oh yeah thats terrible!
God, what a dilema. You wake up one morning to find out you've surrendered.....but you've no idea to whom or why.
Rimshot!
No, Susac's doesn't make you French; Susac's just means you have encephalopathy, blocked arteries behind your eyes, and some level of hearing loss occurring all at the same time. It's the encephalopathy (essentially a catchall term for "brain damage") that lead her to be French. :)
Death first!
I could imagine. That's about as bad as leprosy.
~snorrfle!~ You might have pinged me, mais non, ce n'est pas le moment, eh?
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