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ça ne fait rien?
Tranlated literally, I get "That makes nothing". Is that the French equivalent to "get stuffed"? Seems terribly mild if it is.
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zmjezhd's avatar looks uncommonly like a damp squid to me
O R'lyeh, it does.
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ça ne fait rien?
Tranlated literally, I get "That makes nothing". Is that the French equivalent to "get stuffed"? Seems terribly mild if it is.
No, what it means is "It doesn't matter". You might use it, say, if you are out of cash, but "San Fairy Anne, I have my Visa."
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Thanks Elizabeth. Time for you to be getting back to large mammoths, isn't it? 
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Are these things in the same vein with "manneurism" (possibly a burst artery in one's personality)? Or is that only a "mute point" (unspoken idea that does not matter anyway)? Not making this up, really! 
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Then can we reasonably conclude that "damp squid" is simply a misspelling of "damp squib" or that it is intended as a witty synonym for the latter
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Actually, I think, it was a correct spelling of a mishearing.
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