François Guillier's Blog

Le week-end dernier j'ai assisté à un mariage en Angleterre. En attendant le début de la cérémonie, je regardais les prospectus dans l'église et j'ai trouvé ça...

Évidemment, il n'y a rien d'amusant en anglais (puisqu'on appelle cela un "numéro 2" de l'autre côté de la Manche)....

Qui sait... une petite prière en cas de constipation... :-)

I ordered something through Amazon but sold by another company located in Germany. This morning I received an email about it and since I don't speak German (I only know the 3 words used in the title of this entry), I fired Google Translator:

Hum, OK I my German might be non-existent but I am not sure that translating "Amazon Markerplace" by "FNAC" (which would be the equivalent of translating by WHSmith for example) is correct! :-)

I tried with German -> English but it doesn't work (or rather it does give the right result).

Into Spanish is quite funny too actually: "...a través de la Amazonía"! I hope my package won't travel from German via Brazil!

This year again, the website "Ship of Fools" has selected the "best" Christmas present (or as they put it the ones Jesus would buy).

For example, this Military Santa...

Selection visible on the Ship of Fools' 12 days of Kitchmas.

Last year page is still available.

Les bureaux viennent de déménager de Montparnasse... à partir de maintenant ils sont dans le quartier du sentier.

Ah Montparnasse...

... ses théatres...

... ses sex-shops...

... ses restaurants!!!!!

(Sorry folks... probably typical of Humour Gaulois :-) )

see more pictures on failblog.org.

Found a in UK IT magazine called Computer Weekly, a rather unexpected advertisement:

If I do not denied the right of this advert to be published, I have to admit that I fail to see the link between male sterilisation and computing!

;-)

Publicité pour la semaine anglaise sur Canal + trouvée dans le télérama de cette semaine :

Vues à Paris (Juillet 2006 pour la première et Mars 2007 pour la seconde), ces 2 publicités par des banques anglaises bien connues des 2 côtés du Channel.

In the latest Cambridge Cycling Campaign's newsletter, there is a very funny article with some of the best photos from Warrington Cycling Campaign's Facility of the Month archives.

I let you enjoy either the CCC page itself or the original website for full size photos but I think one of the clear winner for both waste of money (by the town) and best caption (by the WCC?) is:

Blackpool and Nottingham are actually not bad too!