Caddy82rats is now Armaguidon 13

[Armaguidon13]

Hello to all

After many years with the name Caddy82rats, I'm now Armaguidon 13
Armaguidon is a play on word in french (this could be translate by handlabar weapon)
I've find here nice people and great knowlege. Thanks again to all of you.

So I think I've never present myself years back
I'm living in France (south)

Riding a 90S Smoke and a R80 G/S
A 77 is on project, but this had to wait due to unemployment

the G/S after a major rebuild 2 year before (due to a broken valve)



The R90S when I've bought it



A friend had made me a great paint job

Pic is near Le Castelet race track



As you see life is sometimes great !

[ME 109]

Hello, Armaguidon13.
You are not forgotten.
Nice bikes too!

[gspd]

Arme-à-guidon makes perfect sense in french, quite creative name actually.
But in english it looks like a spelling mistake.

PS - I wonder if anybody else here knows the difference between 'guidon' and guidoune'.

[Armaguidon13]

Thanks ME109
Arch WW2 Meserchmit ! Airplanes are one of my other point of interest.

GSPD : To be honest I have no idea what difference between 'guidon' and guidoune'.

[The Veg]

Arme-à-guidon makes perfect sense in french, quite creative name actually.
But in english it looks like a spelling mistake.

PS - I wonder if anybody else here knows the difference between 'guidon' and guidoune'.

According to http://www.ontrmuseum.ca/customs.htm, "The word Guidon is derived from the french term "Gayd-homme " or guide man."

I have no idea. All I know is that when I was in the army, 'guidon' was the term for the small flag every unit carried when marching. It was about 15' x 18' and had the unit's name on it. It was affixed to the top of a lacquered wooden pole about six feet in length, which had a screw-joint in the middle (like a billiard-cue), and a polished metal point on the bottom end for sticking the thing in the ground to stand free. Any battle-awards won by the unit were represented by small ribbons which were affixed to the top of the pole. There was also an OD-green fabric zip-case that it would fit into once the pole was broken down. It was an honour be designated as the guidon-bearer (I never was), and it meant that you had to be a strong runner too because the bearer would have to run with the thing ahead of the unit during exercise too. In basic training a unit's guidon would remain furled on the pole if the unit was performing poorly or having a lot of bad behaviour. My training unit suffered this indignity for a week or two.

This is the pole I remember:


Here's one in WWII:


Modern:


This one was from a Signal Corps unit (I was Signal, at least by occupational specialty, but wound up in Ordnance Corps units):


The guidon is symbolically passed from an outgoing unit commander to the incoming commander during a change of command ceremony:


British:


Australian:


Geez, nowadays I can hardly believe that I, of all people, was once in the military!

[gspd]

GSPD : To be honest I have no idea what difference between 'guidon' and guidoune'.

Guidon is a handlebar, guidoune is a slut.
Are you sure you're in the south of France?
I've heard they are both plentiful there.

[Armaguidon13]

Thats totally true for the army : same story here

For the slut, you've learn me something

[The Veg]

guidoune is a slut.

Could that be a regional and/or chronological euphemism? I remember my dad telling me that when he visited Germany in 1971 he learned that after a few beers he had to visit a place called the 'pissort.' I've found corroborating references on the web so I know thathe wasn't making it up, but when I was stationed near Stuttgart in the late '80s and asked people where the pissort was, nobody had a clue what I was talking about.

I've heard that Cajun French and Continental French are largely incompatible, and I would imagine that Canadian French would be somewhere between those extremes.

[sterob]

The last pic looks like Aussies.......

[Armaguidon13]

French Canadian had some English word and some old french word, so it's easy to understand for me.
Cajun is more difficult because its more lonely language like a slang language, words are different from literal french or french slang. It's a lonely language like the one used in Martinique island, la Reunion island. Ther's many diferentt French like for Spanish

PS : Yes we have some slut in south... Maybe like in California