The French Transport Ministry is determined to enforce stiffer laws regarding drinking and driving because the French people are demanding that they can get pissed middays, afternoons and evenings!
The French regard wine as medicine not alcohol an...
Four passengers arriving from Saudi Arabia at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris have been refused entry into France after they all declined to take off their face veils for French Immigration officials.
Despite claiming that they were members of...
For the first time during the European Soccer Championships rival supporters have come together in a friendly manner, united by a common thread and not hurled insults and abuse at each other.
In a refreshing change, English and French fans came to...
A team of scientists at France's Lyons University has found that houseflies, just like humans, fall in love and live in twosomes.
Unlike humans though who often remarry after the death of a spouse, houseflies find the loss of a partner so immense...
Currently, the UN comprises of nearly two hundred countries, sharing some six thousand languages. In order to save the sanity of the member states, currently there are six working languages: Chinese, Spanish, English, Arabic, Russian and French.
P...
Yerevan, Armenia - French big nose and Cyrano de Bergerac actor Gérard Depardieu has had a TV advertising contract pulled following an incident aboard an Irish incontinental - er...intercontinental! - airline.
The 62 year-old was enroute to Dublin...
To be a woofer is to work on a French farm. The woofer is a person who volunteers on the farm in exchange for food and shelter. To woof is to be like a dog and, what is more, to work like one. The first day on the farm, my farmer Jaques looked me up and down with Gallic insoucience and asked, 'hey Irish, where do potatoes come from?' 'A shop' I replied. 'Stupid potato head, they come from the grou...
The French have spent two years attempting to rescue Air France. They have failed.
It started when one of their pilots greeted his co-pilot with a shout of 'Hi Jacques' and the ensuing riot meant that the flight never even got off the ground. From...
New York, NY-- Mr. Dominique Strauss-Kahn has told his lawyer that he is going on a hunger strike because the jail food in America is 'barbaric and inedible for a Frenchman'. The head of the IMF has been accused of raping a hotel maid, and could rec...
The bizarre skirmish in Libya took a turn for the worse today and fighting broke out between English and French Troops after Khaddaffy said he'd cut a special deal over oil rights to which ever Country backed him in his fight to retain power.
Twen...
The Professors Office, Aston Villa: At a recent Press Conference, Gerard Houllier, 'came out', with the revealing revelation that the waiting and watching press and sport media had not anticipated.
Gerard Houllier:
"I'm French by the way. Wit...
Port-Au-Prince - Sarah Palin has a list of weaknesses a mile long, but this past week she checked off 5 items:
* Foreign Policy, lookin' concerned with poor children of an ethnic minority
* Speaking to reporters in front of a bunch of lumber...
Good evening Sir. Are you ready to order?
Why yes, I think I am.
Very good Sir, go ahead.
Who do I give my orders to?
To me, Sir. That's my job, to receive your order.
Right. I want you to recite Charge of The Light Brigade for me. Then I would like you to fetch the Chef and I would like you to dance a polka together. Then I want you to go and stand over there, by the castor oil p...
In La République Francais many things tend to be slightly different than the rest of the world, c'est la vie, but the latest craze sweeping the country is the craziest ever!
It's called "Kiddy Kiting" in French, "aeronautique enfants, terriblé"...
With the Joint Armed Forces Treaty between France and the UK being signed today it has been revealed that all British tanks will be refurbished to accommodate the French when on operations in War zones.
Manufacturers have already said th...
A study of why the French now live longer than any other nation, shows that food and sex play a major role in longevity.
For the past eight months researchers have questioned France's 15,000 centenarians to learn their secret.
All confessed to...
Many years ago there was an illness called the English illness, the longbow disease, la bouef malaise and other variations. This English disease the french and other continentals believed was contagious and safe so long as the English channel remaine...
Thousands of French took to the streets in protest of the lack of vacation days provided to the rioters while protesting against the change in the retirement policies in the country.
One rioter stated "I work hard rioting. I need vacation days to...