Archive for the 'France' Category

Evian Water Babies

Published on November 25, 2009 in 2000s, Commercials, Drinks, Evian, France, Funny and Water.

“Rapper’s Delight” is a 1979 single by American hip hop trio The Sugarhill Gang. While it was not the first song to feature rapping, it is the first song made by a hip hop or rap group, and is generally considered to be the first true hip hop release, followed closely by Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five’s “Superrappin”. In July 2009, Evian Water used the song in their roller-skating baby commercial, “Evian’s Roller Babies (Live Young)” which is especially popular on YouTube with over 3.7 million hits in a week.

Roller skates are devices worn on the feet to enable the wearer to roll along on wheels, consisting of a boot with four wheels with ball bearings, arranged in the same way as those of a typical car. The first patented roller skate was introduced in the year 1760.

Evian is a French brand of mineral water coming from several sources near Évian-les-Bains, on the south shore of Lake Geneva. In popular culture, Evian is portrayed as a high-end and pricey bottled water, making it popular among Hollywood celebrities.

Berlitz Toupée

Published on June 30, 2008 in 2000s, Berlitz, Commercials, ESL, France, Funny and Israel.

French is today spoken around the world by 72 to 130 million people as a native language, and by about 190 to 600 million people as a second or third language, with significant speakers in 54 countries. Most native speakers of the language live in France, where the language originated, Canada, Belgium and Switzerland.

The Berlitz school teaches languages using what it claims to be its own “Berlitz Method of language instruction.” This “method” is, in fact, a variation on the direct method and what later became popularised as the audio lingual method

A toupée is a hairpiece or partial wig of natural or synthetic hair worn to cover partial baldness.

My Mother Said I Could

Published on December 29, 2007 in 2000s, Commercials, Condoms, Dirty, France and Funny.

The rubber vulcanization process was patented by Charles Goodyear in 1844, and the first rubber condom was produced in 1855. These early rubber condoms were 1-2mm thick and had seams down the sides. Although they were reusable, these early rubber condoms were also expensive.

Beiersdorf AG is a multinational corporation based in Hamburg, Germany, manufacturing personal care products. Its brands include Hansaplast.

Salvador Dalí is crazy over Lavin Chocolate

Published on September 8, 2007 in 1960s, Chocolate, Commercials, Food, France, Music and Odd.

Je suis fou de Chocolate Lanvin!
I’m crazy over Lavin Chocolate!

Much of the chocolate consumed today is made into bars that combine cocoa solids, fats like cocoa butter, and sugar. Chocolate has become one of the most popular flavours in the world. Chocolate lovers are known as “chocoholics.”

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domènech, Marquis of Pubol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), was a Spanish (Catalan) surrealist painter. Some critics alleged Dalí was motiviated not by art but greediness, which led [leader of the surrealist movement, André] Breton to nickname him “Avida Dollars” (an anagram).

The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 “Choral” is the last complete symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. By the time the composer began work on the symphony, he was completely deaf.

SFR Scrotum Disquamation

Published on May 3, 2007 in 2000s, Cell Phones, Commercials, Disgusting, France and Sexy.

SFR (originally Société Française de Radiotéléphonie, no longer expanded) is a French mobile phone company. It has 17 million clients, including (as of January 2007) over 2 million using 3G (specifically UMTS) technology. It is currently 56% owned by the French group Vivendi and 44% by mobile phone giant, Vodafone.

Desquamation is the shedding of the outer layers of the skin. For example, once the rash of measles fades, there is desquamation. The word comes from the Latin ‘desquamare’ , meaning “to scrape the scales off a fish”.

The [term] mycosis (plural: mycoses) refers to conditions in which fungi pass the resistance barriers of the human or animal body and establish infections.

Super Hero fights for Super Tide

Published on April 29, 2007 in 1960s, Commercials, France, Laundry, Soap and Superheroes.

Tide is the name of a popular laundry detergent on the market in the United States, Canada and other countries like Morocco. It is manufactured by Procter & Gamble. First introduced in test markets in 1946 with national distribution reached in 1949, Tide was touted as “America’s Washday Favorite.” It quickly gained dominance in the detergent market, dwarfing the sales of other P&G products, such as Ivory Snow, as well as the competition from Rinso. The latter two were soap products. Originally, Tide was a white powdered solid, but the brand line was later expanded to include a liquid form, an orange-tinted clear fluid; today, liquid Tide is generally a darkish blue color.