Threat from Fiat USA

[So Cal Mark]

and the translation is?

[spiderverde]

In French we use to say: Je les aurais reçu avec une brique pis un fanal.

Yah, what he said......!!!!

Mark, that's good news....

[Exit98]

Well, I failed French 101, but according to Google Translate the phrase

Je les aurais reçu avec une brique pis un fanal

means:

I would have been worse with a brick a lantern

So that's pretty clear.

[spiderverde]

Well, I failed French 101, but according to Google Translate the phrase

Je les aurais reçu avec une brique pis un fanal

means:

I would have been worse with a brick a lantern

So that's pretty clear.

Absolutely... that's so much clearer now..???? .... :)

[ORFORD2004]

Those translation tool lolll!!!!. But you can say that they threat you and now they need you. So the translation can be that my response will not be friendly.

[maytag]

well, I'm a fluent french-speaker, but not native. So take this for what it's worth.,

the first part "je les aurais recu ave un brique" is simply "I would've received (the request or invitation) with a brick". I would say that comes with a general sense of retaliation against previous offense. applicable here.
But the 2nd part is less clear to me: "pis un fanal". un fanal is a lantern, as others have said, but the word "pis" is less easy to translate. it is used in phrases like "tant pis" (too bad) or "pis aller" (go left, for lack of better directions). it's generally a negative connotation, and implies ambivelance. So I would wonder "if that would suggest that it doesn't matter if it's a brick or a lantern... as long as it's thrown through the correct window.

[Spiddy]

Now, that's the sort of happy ending I like Well done Mark.