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Hi,
It's me in the Bordeaux fun-fair in France. I'm a fun-fair enthusiast and it's where I spend my holidays, 3 weeks in March and 3 weeks in October riding amusement rides.
My nickname comes from this:
- Jesus for long hair and beard
- Forain. It's a French word that designates people owning and operating amusement rides in fairgrounds. It's the same pronunciation as “foreign” that comes from the french word “forain” and means stranger to something.
I always have my hair tied for safety because it could get caught by ride mechanisms and cause severe injury and if I leat my hair loose it tends to tangle. I had loose hair just for the photo.
Fun fact:
An episode of the TV series Highlander was shot in a hotel, next to this place. I remember that in the episode the characters says “we go to Bordeaux” and we see them at the hotel window with the theater/opera of Bordeaux opposite the the hotel. It's a 90s TV series where the main character, Duncan McLeod have long hair; tied in a ponytail most of the time. I had watched this series when aired on TV and found his style super cool with his ponytail. Sadly in the lasts episodes of the series he went to short hair, we see him cutting his hair in one of the episodes.
I'll try to find this episode.
Hi Jesus,
These are cool photos, thanks for sharing, and thank you for explaining about your nickname. I had assumed that was your real name, but your explanation clears everything up. I naturally thought that “Forain” was a last name, and your explanation is certainly interesting. I need to brush up on my French, lol. I did take French in high school, but that was 55 years ago, lol.
I always enjoyed the series Highlander, but haven’t watched it in ages. I should check to see whether one of the streaming services carries it.
On a side note, and related to our new site, I was happy to note that I was able to change my avatar by myself. Vincent, in his earlier post, mentioned that he had changed his, and I checked things out and realized that I could change mine easily. Good thing, because my old one was some 15 years old.
David
