(Note: in English, "mignon" is stressed on the second syllable, but "minion" on the first syllable -- otherwise, they sound the same.)

ЗЫ: I dare not show the picture to my nephew (now 8) until he's old enough to have read about the "Ameglian Major Cow" in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. ("Okay, I'll just nip off to the kitchen and shoot myself -- but don't worry, I'll be very humane.")