Oublie-ix that line of thought!

Oh, I never knew about that second reference for Obélix!

I should really read them again, I probably missed 80% of the jokes as a kid.

Thank you for sharing this, a great little TIL to go with my morning coffee!

The Russians call Germans "nemtsy" or "the mute ones" because allegedly the Germans were the first ethnic group the Russians encountered who didn't speak their language and so they assumed they couldn't speak at all. The sausage sounds delicious, though, so maybe they just weren't speaking because they were eating cheese-stuffed bacon-wrapped sausages.

Those parts might be centred around your family kitchen, much like the northern lights

More like companion.

I might translate it that way in some contexts, but if you told me Lewis and Clark were "sputniks" I'd assume you meant they got married in secret, rather than that they were explorers.

Oops, I messed up. That should have been Explorer 5.

Everybody wants to make their own achievement sound better.

• The UK was the third country with a satellite, but didn't fully build their own satellite.
• Canada was the fourth, but third to fully build their own satellite, but they didn't use their own rocket.
• Italy was the fifth and also launched a satellite they built, but used an American rocket.
• France was the sixth country with a satellite, but the first to launch outside the US or USSR using their own rocket.
• Australia was the seventh country with a satellite, but the third to launch a satellite in its own territory; France launched from Algeria in 1965 which had been independent since 1962. But, Australia used an American rocket, not its own design.
• West Germany was the eighth country with a satellite, but it was launched from a US rocket on a US base.
• Japan was the ninth country with a satellite, but it used its own rocket from its own territory. So, 9th with a satellite, 5th to launch outside the US and USSR, 4th to launch from its own territory, and 4th to launch with its own rocket.

Yes, the order of the guys.

Je suis anglais. But also I was trying to keep the catchphrase intact.