Following complaints that it doesn’t contain enough unnecessary letters, Luxembourg City officials have decided to give the Pfaffenthal neighborhood three new Fs. “When I talk to expats, they say that at first the name ‘Pfaffenthal’ looked impossible to say correctly, but after hearing it once or twice, the pronunciation was easy,” said VDL Placename Meeschter […]
Middle-aged business traveller at Gare cash machine obviously wants to be approached by drug dealer
THE GARE — Insisting he doesn’t like to use such sales tactics, a dealer who hangs out near the Luxembourg City train station says he’s got a very strong feeling that a middle-aged business traveller secretly wants to be approached while standing at a cash machine. The 27-year-old dealer admits that it’s not polite to […]
Wild cows return to Luxembourg City
With butchers, restaurateurs, and other natural predators now confined to their homes, hundreds of wild cattle that once freely roamed Luxembourg City have begun to return. For centuries, cows outnumbered people in this region and, thanks to their larger size, they would simply push over anyone who got in their way, say experts. “It wasn’t […]
Obsessive-compulsive roadworks crew must dig, fill every hole 9 times
Answering a question that has been plaguing residents of a street in Rollingergrund for more than a year, the foreman of a roadworks crew has admitted that they all suffer from a similar obsessive-compulsive disorder and that each hole must be dug and filled exactly nine times. “Why nine?” said Michael Hobrack, whose team began […]
Social distancing is easy, confirm Luxembourg City residents
Pointing to the long-established tradition in Luxembourg City of avoiding unnecessary contact with people and maintaining physical distance, residents have confirmed that social distancing is actually the easiest thing in the world to do. “I’ve been doing the whole social distancing thing for as long as I can remember,” says Rollingergrund resident Giselle Quinn, 61. […]
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