I was catching up on my favorite webcomics last night and I read this beauty from Wondermark: It’s not his drop-dead funniest work, but it is awesome and its appearance on the site illustrates a classic web comic phenomenon. He offhandedly made up an academic theory and then a bunch of nerds like me responded [...]

You might recall my previous delight at discovering that there is an entire association of French towns with rude or silly names.  And I tried to add to the wonderment of that discovery by sharing my favorite Languedoc-Roussillon town names like Saint Arnac (saint ripoff) and Conas (which sounds just like Connasse since we often [...]

Here’s a nice light hearted laugh in a time when it seems the French government is really set on vilifying red wine. I love this logo and hope Glougeule makes a killing selling shirts with this new emblem for the French Red Cross. A clever pun as Croix becomes Crois, urging the reader to believe [...]

M6 Ran a historical farce short called Kaamelott recently.  Like a French version of Black Adder or Monty Python and the Holy Grail.  I just stumbled across this video on the French winemaker blog from Chateau des Bachelards.  Some of these characters seem very familiar to me, blaming the poor quality of their wine on [...]

Remember that CouchSurfing group that was hitchhiking to all the French towns with dirty names in the southwest? Well it turns out there is a club of French towns with naughty names. And they have an annual parade. Well, this means I get to expand my list of favorite town names. Maybe we should do [...]

Super Smellers.
When we smell pears, it’s like we smell a thousand pears.