Sunday, August 31, 2008
No it's not the MGM lion
It’s St. Louis’ own Randi Nauhgton from Fox 2 News. Not quite sure what she was doing there when the camera turned on her unannounced.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Brussels Airlines says......GAME ON!
Flying has become more expensive in recent months, largely due to the extra fuel taxes and the ballooning inflation.
Consumers are being more careful with their money and are hesitating about booking outside the summer holidays. Bookings are down 3-4 percent for city trips at the moment.
To counter the trend Brussels Airlines is launching a huge advertising campaign with super promotional prices on city trips. "We've noticed that such a media/advertising campaign with great prices can convince many people to take a trip," says a spokesman for Brussels Airlines.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Friday, August 22, 2008
Flanders American Football League is looking for OFFICIALS
There will also be opportunities to work Brussels American School, International School of Brussels and SHAPE games.
Clinics and instruction is provided, and new recruits – no prior experience required – will be introduced to real games gradually.
Officials receive a small stipend. Contact Christophe Geldhof at oige@telenet.be for more information.
I posted a while back, that they are looking for coaches too. I f you have any interest in that, you may want to check this out.
For more information on whats happening with American Football, check out this piece in FLANDERS TODAY
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Belgians are nothing but slow-witted frite eaters
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Why we watch the Olympics
In this case....not so much. THE SHOCKER MOVE!
While you're wrestling in the Olympic quarterfinals, China's Wang Jiao has just jammed her middle finger into your rectum! She calls that her "Bung Pow" maneuver.
Could've been worse, she could have been wrestling Dong Dong.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
The media can't figure out why Alicia Sacramone is so popular
IT TAKES A LOT TO IMPRESS THE CHURCH
Monday, August 18, 2008
Mi Sock Yoo arrested for prostitution
Cheaper Healthcare, because we know the world needs more boobjobs
Why put up with expensive, run-of-the-mill health care at home when you can be treated just as well abroad? By Deloitte ’s reckoning, medical travel will represent $162 billion in lost spending on health care in America by 2012. There are signs that American health-care administrators are starting to feel the heat.
Two good articles about Medical tourism, "Importing Competition" and "Operating Profit" have been printed in the latest Economist magazine.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
A Belgian Politician with a drinking problem...now that's a new one!
A Flower Carpet in Brussels
The bi-annual carpet of flowers on the Market Square in Brussels opened to the public on Thursday evening. The 700,000 begonias that make up the carpet of flowers were all grown by horticulturalists from the area around Lochristi in East Flanders. Around 1,000 volunteers worked on the impressive display of floral art.
Fiesta Latina in Brussels
A Latin festival in Brussels? ¡Pero sÃ! Fiesta Latina gets hips gyrating every year on Place du Châtelain, with parades, live concerts, dancing and the odd mojito or two...
Brussels' trendy Place du Châtelain is an appropriate venue for the event. The usual buzz of the popular bars adapts easily to the burst of sound and colour from the best Latin bands Belgium has to offer on August 29th and 30th.
Visit the comprehensive festival website for the latest news and up-to-the-minute information.
The Belgian rain is good for something!
The wet t-shirt campaign start August 16th, but you can stop dreaming, the t-shirts are already dry........ So is the furniture.
George is enjoying the Olympics
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Stella Light....the wife beater?
The whole branding campaign behind Stella is upscale and focused on quality - you’ve seen the short films in movie theaters. The brand is aimed squarely at urban professionals and beer snobs.
(At least, that’s so in North America. In England and some other places in Europe, the brand is associated with drunken soccer hooligans. The Brits have nicknamed it “wife beater.” )
InBev is testing a low calorie version of Stella Artois in Canada this summer, according to a Toronto newspaper.
The test could lead to a worldwide rollout, The Globe and Mail reported.
The test of Stella Artois Legere, which has been ongoing for about two months, has exceeded expectations, the paper reported.
Death ride from the Atomium in Brussels
Take part in a unique activity, a Death-Ride from the top sphere of the Atomium! A breathtaking descent of more than 100 meters!
from Wednesday 13 August 2008 to Sunday 17 August 2008
DAILY : 14:00-21:30
from Saturday 23 August 2008 to Sunday 31 August 2008
DAILY : 10:00-12:30
DAILY : 14:00-18:30
Learn more about this:
url : http://www.belventura.be
HOLA!
Spain’s Olympic basketball teams have risked upsetting their Chinese hosts by posing for a pre-Games advert making slit-eyed gestures.
Because we're more than a handful!
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Where Have All the Graveyards Gone?
From 2002 through 2007, the remains of about 1,000 people have been disinterred and moved out of the city, according to permits stored in metal filing cabinets in the city's department of health. Looked at in another way, for about every 30 living human beings who leave Detroit, one dead human being follows.
Giant smelly flower puts on sex show in Belgium
The Amorphophallus Titanum -- literally "the giant strangely shaped penis" -- has been attracting big crowds at the National Botanic Garden of Belgium on the outskirts of Brussels.
Auloos called it "a botanical superstar". "It's there for for a short time, it's glamorous, it's big, it produces something special ... it's star quality."
Also known as Corpse Flower, it releases a strong smell to attract pollinators, thought to be sweat bees.
Thousands queued to see -- and smell -- the 1.6 metre tall specimen on Thursday.
"It smells like a mix of rotten fish and rotten meat. It's quite impressive!" said visitor Frederic Lebreux.
"I don't know, maybe like a Camembert," said Rachel Kaiembe.
First discovered in 1878 in western Sumatra, the plant was first cultivated in Europe at the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, in London in 1889. Because of its appearance, Victorian women were kept from viewing it.
Sports Headlines of the week!
Canadian swimmer Victoria Poon has been quarantined with chicken pox, according to CBC Sports swimming analyst Mark Tewksbury.
Poon, from LaSalle, Que., was taken to a local hospital in Beijing and didn't compete Sunday in the women's 4x100 metre freestyle relay team that finished eighth.
Poon, 23, who won the Canadian Trials in Montreal, was also expected to compete in the women's 50 freestyle on Friday, but her current condition may prevent her from participating.
Baggage handlers' dispute sparks travel chaos at Brussels airport
Airport officials said thousands of passengers were affected by the strike, which was called by Aviapartner workers to protest against harsh working conditions.
Belgian media quoted trade union officials as saying that the number of workers asked to attend each carousel shift had been reduced from five to three. Management disputed the claim, saying any reduction in personnel was caused by "unforeseen circumstances", such as flight delays.
The airport's website showed dozens of flights being either delayed or cancelled as a result of the strike. Many had to be rerouted to other airports, such as Liege's Bierset.
More than 25,000 passengers had been expected to depart from Brussels airport on Monday, with almost as many expected to arrive.
Monday, August 11, 2008
The Black Moses, Isaac Hayes, dead at 65
While the details are sketchy at the moment the news is out that Issac Hayes the man who produced the legendary ‘Shaft’ theme has passed away, just one day after comedian Bernie Mac.(perhaps better known to South Park fans as the voice of Chef) was found dead by his wife at his Memphis, Tennessee estate very early this morning next to a treadmill machine.
To paraphrase the Theme From Shaft, that man Isaac was a bad mother...Shut your mouth
Sunday, August 10, 2008
It's good to be George!
If the first thing you noticed was the president....I have some bad news for you. To hell with Pelosi....I say drill here, and drill now!
W made a surprise visit to the beach volleyball venue at the Olympics, where he watched the women's teams practice. GOOD CHOICE!
Saturday, August 09, 2008
Jenna Jameson is pregnant...I don't expect the delivery to be hard
Bia and Branca Feres will "not" be in the Olympics
Thursday, August 07, 2008
Is Paris Hilton, like, ready to lead?
Paris for president? “See you at the debates, Bitches,”
After getting indirectly dissed by John McCain in one of his campaign commercials, Paris has hit back with a pitch of her own.
Fine, Paris is a total airhead, but it’s quite scary how much political influence she wields. This whole thing isn’t doing McCain any favours - and the Hiltons are Republicans! So if we end up with a very tight election, don’t discount Paris’ contribution.
It's time for Belgium to call it quits..
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
If you want to collect unemployment...Wallonia is the place to be.
Think Greyhound is rethinking their ad campaign?
The Walk of Shame
This morning's news that Morgan Freeman has been seriously injured in a car accident reminds me of perhaps his finest work, The Walk of Shame.
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Psssst - Have I got a cheap red wine for you!
Robin Goldstein, who worked his way through Harvard and Yale as a freelance travel writer and critic for the "Let's Go" and Fodor's guide books, has come up with his own answer: "The Wine Trials: 100 Everyday Wines Under $15 that Beat $50 to $150 Wines in Brown-Bag, Blind taste tests.
I’m Too Sexy for American Television
Here’s the new Calvin Klein ad featuring Eva Mendes, and, for just a second, Eva Mendes’ nipple. It’s been banned in the U.S., because nipples will corrupt our children. Seriously, the biggest problem facing today’s youth? Nipples. Anyway, CK’s probably getting more exposure for this damn perfume by having this commercial banned than they would have if it actually aired.
That ad has now been banned from TV in America, resulting in a lot of free press for CK and it's new fragrance. Could this standard-issue fashion PR masterstroke have been purposeful? They say the ad will play in Europe just fine thank you...
Only in America....The Heart Attack Grill
Yes, a place like this is literally a dying breed, but what might be even more impressive is how a small unhealthy burger shop has grown so well and turned plenty of bad publicity from a nurse's union into a successful food chain.
Eat what you want...and die like a man!
This collection of humor essays by Miami-area writer Steve H. Graham contains about two dozen recipes that are as deadly as they are delicious.
Learn to make treats such as yeast-raised doughnuts deep-fried in lard, chicken-fried ribeye on a giant bacon-grease biscuit, coconut flan with seven egg yolks, five-hundred-calorie brownies, and hash-brown Yukon Gold casserole with cheese and over a pint of sour cream.
This book should come with a Biohazard decal!
Watermelons...the new Viagra!
Of course, like all cool science-y stuff, there are like a million caveats. Most of the good stuff is in the rind. You'd have to eat 6 cups of watermelon to get the effect. It doesn't last that long. And so on and so forth.
Watermelons contain an ingredient called citrulline that can trigger production of a compound that helps relax the body's blood vessels, similar to what happens when a man takes Viagra, said scientists in Texas, one of the nation's top producers of the seedless variety. READ MORE
Monday, August 04, 2008
The Belgium Royal Dysfunctional Family is worth 2.25 billion euros
Sunday, August 03, 2008
The Hottest cheerleaders in the NFL
Russian cheerleaders at some kind of event.....all I know is that I have to attend one of these games. LOTS MORE!