Student sells tinned fresh air from French village
Student sells tinned fresh air from French village
A French entrepreneur has proved it really is possible to sell fresh air. The student has been inundated with orders for €5 tins of "organic" air from his village of Montcuq in southern France. But what is the secret of his not so air-brained scheme?
It all began as a bit of a joke.
In the summer 22-year-old student Antoine Deblay decided to have a crack at selling fresh air from his village of Montcuq in the Lot region of southern France, just for a bit of laugh.
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It is unique simply thanks to a play on words in French, which means the village is often pronounced as “mon cul”, allbeit incorrectly, which means “my ass”. (In local dialect the q is pronounced so Montcuq is said as (mon cuk).
So when Deblay put an advert on the crowdfunding site “KissKissbankbank” asking for investment to help him sell “Air of Montcuq”, which could translate as "wind from my ass", he thought it would just be laughed off.
But clearly the wind was in his favour and to his surprise he quickly raised the €800 he had asked for, meaning he could go ahead with his project.
http://www.thelocal.fr/20131113/student-sells-tinned-fresh-air-from-french-village
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(not some new joke or fad; I used to see it when I lived in France in the early 1970s), I guess there are people who would buy this guy's bottled mountain air.
Here, $18 at Drugstore.com
Mon cul!
and for a time, in the '60s and '70s, they probably were better for you than breathing what passed for "air" here in the Basin.
(barely)
