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France Discharges Rotten Egg Smell onto England
Ever since William the Conqueror became king of England in 1066, France and England have had a rather pungent loathing of each other. However, while often diluted, such malodour has exploded into putrid abhorrence after a major French gas leak projected a rotten egg smell onto the chip-loving nation, tainting thousands and causing a major…
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French Riot Police Outraged at ‘No Alcohol During Lunch’ Rule
Long has been the tradition in France to consume alcohol during lunch hour, provided it is in moderation. However the privilege of tradition can be broken, especially when those charged with curbing ‘untoward’ behaviour mix work with play, and flaunt it in an already inflamed public eye. Such is the case with the CRS, or…
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Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa Still Baffles After 500 Years
Crafted by renown renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci over roughly 16 years, the Mona Lisa remains arguably the most revered piece of artwork to date. The enigmatic expression of the subject (which most believe is Lisa del Giocondo), along with the technique and composition, has both awed and confounded admirers from various gardens and crevices…
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Subterranean Bodies Heat Parisian Homes
From the guillotine to the submarine, English ingenuity has struck again, this time harnessing human body heat to bring warmth into the Parisian hearth. Engineers from Buro-Happold have designed a sterling subterranean eco-experiment, which sucks the body heat off Paris metro commuters and spits it into the homes of social housing tenants. Each train traveller…
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Violent Storm Conceives ‘Mysterious Island’
One dark and violent morning in the early days of 2009, the most powerful force to hit France in years came storming down upon the edge of the Atlantic. Winds of up to 200 km/ph tore through the nebulous dawn, leaving 26 people dead, forests and power lines crushed, buildings and roads annihilated, and the…
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World’s Tallest Cake Crumbles Under Parisian Heatwave
In a cavalier attempt to shatter the Guinness Book of World Records, obsessed Parisian pastry chefs have tried their hand at the world’s tallest cake. For its construction, Chef Gilles Stassart and architect Jean Bocabeille gathered a crack team of pastry chefs, engineers, architects and artistic specialists in an attempt to thicken the icing of…
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Scientists Uncover Pig Sex Fruit Traits
Truffle lovers are well aware, the Black Truffle of Perigord is of extreme interest to pigs, particularly sows, as some variants secrete a hormone produced by boars prior to mating. It is true that wild, sex crazed boars have been known to bite people’s fingers off in a fit of desperation, just to get a…
