Ma Poubelle/Ma Belle

pearl182 · Post by **pearl182** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:20 am

just read on ultimate guitar that smashing pumpkins are re-releasing some album(not sure which one) but that they have a song called Ma Belle. i thought it was pretty unusual. it wasnt released the first time the album was released so its a new song. any thoughts on it? its obviously a coincidence cos sums didnt know pumpkins had a song called that even though it was written before sums were even together!

Post by **Ken** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:13 am

Poubelle = Garbage can
Belle = beautiful

Not really a connection. Just sounds the same.

I'm A Cunt [*banned*] · Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:20 am

Ken of Contradiction wrote:Poubelle = Garbage can
Belle = beautiful

Not really a connection. Just sounds the same.

i thought it ment "my pussy" or somthin.

pearl182 · Post by **pearl182** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:31 am

Ken of Contradiction wrote:Poubelle = Garbage can
Belle = beautiful

Not really a connection. Just sounds the same.

ya i know that. but its pretty weird how that happened. do you not think so? im pretty sure smashing pumpkins arent canadian or speak french. just thought id post it anyway

Phili · Post by **Phili** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:05 am

Wow, sumfan, you do not know French.

Anyway, yeah. There's no real significance of this, they're not connected at all except they're both French titles.

I'm A Cunt [*banned*] · Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:20 am

Phili wrote:Wow, sumfan, you do not know French.

nope. LOL. wow i was WAY off. XDDDD

jsd2 · Post by **jsd2** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:24 am

I'd expect sumfan not to know french since i'm guessing he's in japan. heck, i was born in toronto and it didn't help sitting in french class 1 hour every day i still don't know french and I sure as hell didn't know what poubelle meant before sum 41 made it known.

i regret now not knowing french but i suck at learning languages.

Hentaiman · Post by **Hentaiman** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:19 am

lol, i think the only connection is that maybe sum's Ma Poubelle is a parody on Smashing pumpkins' Ma Belle, like in the title.
dunno what's the pumpkins' song about, but i guess maybe the sums just parodied the title.

pearl182 · Post by **pearl182** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:27 pm

i remember poubelle as one of the first words i learned in french. objects in the classroom! im decent at french. not exactly fluent or anything!!

Rick · Post by **Rick** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:43 pm

i'm guesing poubelle (poo-bell) is supposed to be a throwoff of plus belle (plew-bell) which means very beautiful.
but yeah this smashing pumpkins thing is weird

Post by V » Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:48 pm

Ma Belle means "song-titles-shouldn't-be-more-subject-of-discussion-than-Deryck's-hair-on-this-forum" or something..

Phili · Post by **Phili** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:06 pm

Hentaiman wrote:lol, i think the only connection is that maybe sum's Ma Poubelle is a parody on Smashing pumpkins' Ma Belle, like in the title.
dunno what's the pumpkins' song about, but i guess maybe the sums just parodied the title.

I highly doubt even that. I think the idea for the title and the lyrics just came from Steve's crazy little mind.

Hentaiman · Post by **Hentaiman** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:22 pm

Phili wrote:
Hentaiman wrote:lol, i think the only connection is that maybe sum's Ma Poubelle is a parody on Smashing pumpkins' Ma Belle, like in the title.
dunno what's the pumpkins' song about, but i guess maybe the sums just parodied the title.
I highly doubt even that. I think the idea for the title and the lyrics just came from Steve's crazy little mind.

I guess you're right, but who knows.

Post by **Jeremy Kill** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:58 pm

All I remember from French class is

"Can you say 'failing' in french, Gunner?"

Post by **Dylan** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:11 pm

lol^

when i heard the title i knew i heard poubelle before, i wasn't sure what it ment. when i translated it on google, it all came back to me.

basically what i can say fluently is "je ne parler pas francais" which means " i cannot speak french" - ihope. please correct me if im wrong just in case i go to france and say something complety totally wrong...

Hentaiman · Post by **Hentaiman** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:02 am

Say, all you guys from Canada, do you like have to study French as a must-study language in school or what?
cuz like half of Canada is frecnh speaking.

Post by **Jeremy Kill** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:08 am

I pretty sure I had no choice but to do it from grades 4 to 6. Then from grades 7 to 9 it was just an option class you could take (which I never did).

It was still and option in high school and I took it in grade 10 only so then I could get into colleges easier.

Hentaiman · Post by **Hentaiman** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:40 am

And yet, you dont know French? XD
How's that helped you getting into colleges if you haven't learned anything

Post by **Dylan** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:48 am

in my school we were taught french all the way from kindergarten to and including grade 9. 10-12 its optional.

i didn't take it because
1. i would have a less chance getting a good mark than in any other class

2. i wasn't decieved by the teacher saying we do fun stuff

3. i plan on taking algebra at the end of grade 12. and i figured, if it comes down to me having algebra and no french, and another guy with no algebra and french, who do you think is gonna get into the collage/ university ??

Post by **Jeremy Kill** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:49 am

Hentaiman wrote:And yet, you dont know French? XD
How's that helped you getting into colleges if you haven't learned anything

Haha, yeah I had a really easy French 10 class (there was no final exam). I mean, I did pretty well in French 10 and all the assignments we did. I averaged out at about a 75%. But it's been three years of me not speaking or doing anything with french so I forgot a lot of the stuff I learned. Some words I can recognize, but I don't think I can form proper sentences.

Colleges just look at you marks anyways. They see that you have a good final mark so they assume you know the stuff pretty well still (even if you don't).

I used to be able to say that Michael Jackson likes the petite garcons, but not anymore.