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Pimp my Bride

I came across this great little movie on the weblog of my friend Michel Brouwers, who got it from Totally Flabbergasted, who, ah well, isn't that just how the Net is supposed to work?
Based on the MTV series Pimp my ride, this movie is extremely funny, check it out.

Tug-of-wa(te)r

This Sunday the yearly The Hague Plomptrekken championship was scheduled again. In this event teams from local pubs compete in a tug-of-war over one of the canals.

See the serie of images at flickr.com.
This series also made it onto the French Blog of Guy Verville.

History of Het Amsteltje

My local bar has been around for a long time. Saturday my local newspaper ran a story on the bar that was there before het Amsteltje. It was called Marcel, and some of the names mentioned in the article are still visiting there. Fortunately some of them are quite a bit older and wiser by now :).

The article is in Dutch, so if you're on a modem connection and don't understand Dutch, save yourself the trouble :)

Read the complete article at my locker at Flicker.com

Chess anyone?

A hilarious little chess game from the dawn of the computer era:)

From KFlood.net:
"While digging around a bit to see what I want to transfer to the new computer and what stays on the old (or goes away forever) I came across a little txt file from years ago. It's a game of chess played via notes messenger (our internal system at ACD), basically sending a move on an ascii board, copying the board into a new note, adjusting it for a move and then firing it back.

As you see, it started out quite normally:

+---------------+
|r|n|b|q|k|b|n|r|
|-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-|
|p|p|p|p|p|p|p|p|
|-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-|
| | | | | | | | |
|-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-|
| | | | | | | | |
|-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-|
| | | | |p| | | |
|-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-|
| | | | | | | | |
|-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-|
|p|p|p|p| |p|p|p|
|-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-|
|r|n|b|q|k|b|n|r|
+---------------+

But things quickly degenerated from there..."

The Armstrongs of wife-carrying

Two Estonian students clinched the country's seventh straight wife-carrying world championship on Saturday, winning the "wife's" weight in beer and a sauna.
Using the "Estonian Carry," where the woman clamps her thighs to the sides of the man's face while hanging upside down on his back, Madis Uusorg carried Inga Klauso 830 feet through a pool and over hurdles in just over a minute.
Uusorg, 20, claimed there was no secret to their victory. "I just tried to run and not think about anything," he said.
"Madis is very good at carrying women. I didn't have to do anything," his friend Klauso, 19, said. Contestants to not have to be married.

source: Reuters

Americans DO have a sense of humor...

Read the washing instructions in French (the bag was made by Americans for the French market), by clicking on the image. Hilarious!

I had to share this find. I recently purchased a high-quality computer sleeve from a small boutique manufacturer. I was checking if it could be washed. The photo is the attached tag with the washing instructions in both English and French. The English is exactly what you would expect and so is the French, for the first 6 lines. The last three lines of French are most interesting. "We are sorry that our President is an idiot. We didn't vote for him." Given recent strained relations between our two countries, it's good to see that not all Americans agree with the current administration.

Source: atbash.net

Hyperlinking to this site is prohibited???

Hahaha, this is daft... Let's have an internet site and then prohibit people to hyperlink to it... Ok, sue me then, I dare you, I double dare you :).

"The copyright in the contents of this site is owned by Sellotape® and users may download materials from this site for their own personal and non-commercial use only. Any other copying, re-distribution or publishing of any part of this site in any manner is not permitted. Hyperlinking to this site, is not permitted without the express prior permission of Sellotape®."
source: http://www.sellotape.co.uk/copyright.htm

The site of Sellotape will never become as sticky as its product, or perhaps it is the best guerilla marketing trick, blog style, in years :)

Today is Towel Day

"A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine soredly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a brush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough."

In memory of Douglas Adams, in celebration of his work (and things to come).

Amsteltje Soapbox Team finishes 6th

Unfortunately the soapbox racing team of Het Amsteltje failed to win the Red Bull Soapbox Race. Despite extensive training and test sessions (see the speed trial below where eventually speeds of 85 km/h were reached) the team finished 6th in a field of 126 competitors. So a very good result by any standards, except Paulus's. More impressions here.

One to get you through the week

I can't help smiling watching this one. Simple, cute remedy against the minor set backs in life. Watch it here, if your bandwidth allows for it (4,7 Mb).