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Archive for 'Oops'

I'll never make predictions again (or should I?)

Last December I posted 50 Predictions for 2008. Nine months into the year I got most of them wrong (there's still no baby for Bruni, and Cotillard did win an Oscar), but at least I got this one right:
Prediction #10 — Stock market crisis: CAC-40 hits 4,000 low

Yesterday, the French index sank to 3957.86, down […]

Posted: Fri 19-Sep-08 under Oops

Tummy Hunt

The story isn't funny (it's about an illegal midwife responsible for the death of a home-born baby), but it always make me laugh to see how news sites try to find an appropriate visual for their articles. Here are five attempts to find context-related tummy pictures:

Posted: Thu 18-Sep-08 under Oops

Early Halloween

Pamela Anderson was in Paris this week promoting her new reality TV show “Pam: Girl on the Loose”. Her timing was wrong: Halloween is still two six weeks away.
Source (Gabby Babble)

Posted: Thu 18-Sep-08 under People, Events, Oops

Our experts see the worst before they select the best

This is an ad for French satellite TV operator Canalsat. Warning: the video shows lots of naked people on bicycles, so don't click the Play button if bikes are considered NSFW in your office!

Via Ads of the World

Posted: Wed 17-Sep-08 under Created in France, Oops

Pigs Love Louis Vuitton

Belgian conceptual artist Wim Delvoye has been tattooing pigs since the 1990s. This lovely Louis Vuitton piglet must be one of his cutest projects. In case LV lawyers are looking to sue the artist for copyright infringement they'll have to fly to China, where Wim (who is a vegetarian) has a pig art farm.
Via […]

Posted: Tue 16-Sep-08 under Oops

Shit Wine

Restaurant owner Jean-Marc Speziale is so pissed off with the general prejudice that Languedoc-Rousillon wines are lousy plonk that he decided to hit back. He now labels some of his wines (which are actually very drinkable) Vin de Merde, or Shit Wine in proper English. He claims not to do it for the money, but […]

Posted: Mon 15-Sep-08 under Food, Drink & Smoke, Oops

"I could never write a song in French"

Just by singing in English, precocious French duo the Do (pronounced "doe") have sparked a cultural shift in their homeland. Their playful, genre-hopping debut album A Mouthful topped French charts in January, as did their first single On My Shoulders (see video below). But unlike most hit bands in French history, their entire album, bar […]

Posted: Fri 12-Sep-08 under Language, Video & Audio, Oops

Colorful Yelle

French singer Yelle (a feminised acronym of YEL, "You enjoy life" - wiki) is a French singer from Brittany. Here she is in her latest clip, Ce Jeu (this game).

Oh, and did I mention the nip slip at 2:07?

Posted: Sun 07-Sep-08 under Video & Audio, Created in France, Oops

How to become Woman of the World

Step 1: be a politician in Colombia
Step 2: ignore all warnings, and venture into rebel country
Step 3: get captured
Step 4: spend 2,321 days in the jungle
Step 5: get released and kissed by Sarkozy
Ingrid Betancourt gets Women's World Awards 2008

Posted: Sat 06-Sep-08 under People, Events, Oops

Want free cannabis and a free car? Come to France

The French are getting sloppier by the day. As if multiple uranium leaks, and the theft of 28 kg of Semtex (which still hasn't been found) aren't enough, the French customs authorities found out this week that happy smokers got away with 200-300 kilos of cannabis resin. The stuff was stored in an unguarded customs […]

Posted: Wed 03-Sep-08 under Food, Drink & Smoke, Oops

Keep your hands above the sheets — Or else!

This is what happened if you lived in sin in France in 1844:

It's along pictorial story without a happy end:

View the full story on Neatorama

Posted: Wed 03-Sep-08 under History, Created in France, Environment & Health, Oops

Celebrity Apes Do Exist

A couple of weeks ago I showed Nick Sarkozy photoshopped as an ape (via Celebrity Apes):

Turns out it wasn't photoshopped at all:

Photo: Gerard Cerles AFP
Source (20 Minutes)

Posted: Tue 02-Sep-08 under Oops, Sarkozy & Co

New Renault Mégane Revealed

Spanish site km77.com publishes the first pictures of the new version of Renault's highly successful Mégane. The photos have been acquired illegally; Renault wasn't planning on making the car public until next week. Too late now! (Click pic for more detailed images)

Posted: Tue 02-Sep-08 under Created in France, Oops

The Ugliest French Cars. Evar. (Update)

(One reader commented that there were not five but nine French cars on the list, so here's an updated version of this post.)
Readers of the British Daily Telegraph picked the 100 ugliest cars of all time. Five Nine French voitures made it to the list. The ugliest of those is the Citroën Ami (#33):

Considered slightly […]

Posted: Tue 02-Sep-08 under Created in France, Oops

It's Hot Work Being a News Anchor

Claire Chazal is the French veteran news anchor who presents Le Journal during the weekends. Yesterday she appeared in a transparent fuchsia shirt, which showed too clearly that she was wearing a white bra.

One news clip later Chazal was back. Problem solved!

Watch the video | Source (in French)

Posted: Mon 01-Sep-08 under People, Oops

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