A Lot of Random Stuff: Chess

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12/11/2008

Check mate

For those of you who play chess, here's a nice animated Play-Doh battle!

Today's Unclyclopedia featured article: chess, of course.

Belgian vanity plates that I saw

001.FA
001.LB
005.AB
911.TS
AAA-176
AAA-120
AAA-130
AAA-260
AAA-362
AAA-364
AAA-372
AAA-374
AAA-458
AAA-620
ABI-001
ADR-007
AKP-007
ALL-010
AMG-003
ANN-337
ANN-044
ANN-777
AOO-005
APD-003
AS.004
ATM-001
AUD-001
B.0057
B.0060
B.0100
BAG-002
BBB-888
BBB-777
BIO-004
BMW-555
BUG-111
BUR-005
BVO-306
COC-003
CTS-360
CU.911
D.1111
DAG-002
DOM-055
DWO-001
EJ.001
ELS-001
EMO-002
EUR-004
EUR-050
EX.767
EYE-003
FDC-001
FOX-267
GD.001
GKO-001
GRR-007
GUY-111
H.0002
HIL-001
HUM-777
HUY-555
IKS-002
ING-123
IOO-002
JAH-028
JAN-251
JAN-002
JAN-739
JAN-954
JCM-001
JDB-050
JDR-052
JJJ-999
JM.003
JMC-008
JON-002
JOY-007
JSE-777
JUN-007
JV.001
KDD-333
KEN-002
KIR-001
LAN-008
LAV-001
LB.777
LD.001
LEV-012
LFA-001
LFA-002
LP.001
LP.310
LPC-002
LUC-059
LUC-790
LUK-606
M.0070
ME.001
MH.007
MV.101
N.0002
NAN-001
NAT-100
NAT-001
NCU-444
NEM-001
NIC-007
NIC-111
NSE-001
PBO-005
PBV-001
PC.001
PF.001
POK-001
POL-051
POL-300
PSY-001
PT.997
RAY-383
RAY-001
REY-777
RGV-388
RIC-003
RJI-001
RLL-222
ROB-069
RTT-001
RV-042
SAH-009
SAR-002
SEB-001
SEB-800
SHE-888
SOC-001
SSS-666
SYR-666
SZW-222
TAB-777
TAP-001
TAS-013
TAY-003
TCT-747
TDV-001
TGE-073
TGV-001
THE-111
TIM-500
TOF-007
TSE-001
TSE-002
TSE-003
TTT-555
TUN-911
TVB-111
TWL-001
TYP-037
US.002
VCM-040
VDA-066
VDB-001
VDB-004
VDB-006
VDB-050
VDB-100
VDB-108
VDB-123
VDB-500
VDB-510
VDB-520
VDB-530
VDC-027
VDH-007
VDH-007
VDL-006
VDM-069
VDP-100
VDV-100
VDV-911
VDW-111
VDW-333
VDW-666
VED-100
VER-061
VER-004
VET-007
VET-369
VET-005
VGB-380
VHT-927
VIC-200
VIG-001
VIP-005
VIP-015
VIP-421
VIP-006
VIP-021
VIP-100
VIP-600
VIT-100
VIV-555
VJA-001
VLD-002
VNT-001
VNZ-235
VRC-206
VRS-001
VSC-863
VTB-001
VVV-009
VVV-555
VWL-999
VWO-001
VWP-914
VW.039
VYT-494
XA.001
XAV-002
XAV-911
XJX-007
XPO-006
XVL-001
XXD-008
XXL-007
XXL-800
XXX-080
XXX-500
XXX-505
XXX-001
XZZ-777
Z.000.M

Famous people I saw or met at least once (of course, nearly all of them come from Belgium)

Amélie Nothomb
André Flahaut
Anne-Marie Lizin
Arno
Axel Merckx
Benoît Poelvoorde
Bernard Hinault
Bla-Bla (I admit I was a great fan of his shows…)
Bouli Lanners
Bruno Coppens
Christophe Brandt
Christopher Lloyd
Didier Reynders
Didier Van Cauwelaert
Dupa (Jean Dupanloup)
Eddy Merckx
Eric De Staerke
Fadilah Laanan
Frédéric Deborsu
Frédéric Jannin
Gilles Dal
Grand Duke
Gryzette
Guy Verhofstadt
Herman De Croo
Howard Shore
Isabelle Durant
Jacques Balutin
Jacques Mercier
Jean Piat
Jean-Claude Vancauwenberghe
Jean-Jacques Jespers
Jean-Luc Fonck
Jean-Marie Leblanc
Joëlle Milquet
Juan d'Oultremont
King Albert II
Kris Peeters
Lance Armstrong
Laurence Bibot
Les Gauff' (Au Suc')
Lorent Deutsch
Marc Moulin
Marie Arena
Miam Monster Miam
Nathalie Uffner
Nicolas Sarkozy
No that's a joke, I never saw him
Olivier Monsens
Paolo Bettini
Philippe Geluck
Philippe Lafontaine
Philippe Lambillon
Pierre Aucaigne
Pierre Kroll
Pierre Rapsat
Pino Cerami
Prince Laurent
Prince Philippe
Queen Fabiola
Queen Paola
Raoul Reyers (Philippe Gouders)
Rik Verbrugghe
Robbie McEwen
Robert Sabatier
Robert Wasseige
Rudy Demotte
Saint André (the singer!)
Sam Touzani
Sergio Honorez
Stefan Liberski
Thomas Gunzig
Tom Boonen
Virginie Hocq
Virginie Svensson

People I dislike or hate or that irritate me (a selection)

Benedict XVI (Religious Extremist)
Benoît Dreze (CDH) (He wants to promote the so-called "chèques-service" which encourage slavery — namely people doing the housework you should do on your own)
Condoleeza Rice (A Shame For Women)
Donald Rumsfeld (Republican Idiot)
Filip De Winter (VB)
George W. Bush (Supreme Moron)
H.M. Leopold III (traitor)
John-Paul II (fortunately he died)
José Happart (PS) (Complete nerd)
Justine Henin (Tennis Player)
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Extremist)
Mgr Léonard (Intolerant, Religious Extremist, Mentally Deranged, Pillock)
Michael Schumacher (Dikke Nek)
Paul Wolfovitz (yeah, that guy who can't buy a new pair of socks but can help his girlfriend get a better job…)
Pierre-Yves Hardenne (Opportunist)

Famous combovers

Abdelaziz Bouteflika (Algerian president)
André-Mutien Léonard (ultra conservative Bishop of Namur-Luxembourg)
Bernard Rentier (Rector of the University of Liège)
Big Ern (in "Kingpin", character played by the comboverless-in-real-life Bill Murray)
Carl Levin (Michigan Senator)
Chevy Chase (American actor)
Desmond Llewelyn ('Q' in James Bond movies)
Donald Trump (American mogul)
E. G. (Philosophy professor at Namur University)
Ehud Olmert (Prime Minister of Israel) (BUT he cuf off his combover in February 2006 ;-D)
Gabriel Ringlet (Professor of canonic right at University of Louvain-la-Neuve)
Hervé Novelli (French State Secretary)
Homer Simpson (yeah, the cartoon one)
Jean Gol (Belgian liberal, former minister; deceased)
John Bolton (Former US representative to the UN)
John McCain
Laurent Fabius (French socialist, former Prime Minister)
Michel Doomst (mayor of Gooik, Flanders)
Michel Scheuer (Rector of University of Namur)
Rajendra Pachauri (Climate Expert, Nobel Peace Prize in 2007)
Rudolf Giuliani (former Mayor of New York City; he hasn't got a combover anymore)
Serge Kubla (liberal politician)
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (former French president; he hasn't got a combover anymore)
Vincent Reuter (Union wallonne des entreprises)
Vladimir Putin (former Russian president, current Prime Minister)

Things and people that I like

American series
Amsterdam
Andy and Lou sketches (Little Britain)
Back to the Future
Beer
Being silly
Being with Elodie
Belgian chocolate
Belgian locomotives
Belgian number plates
Belgian seaside
Belgian, British and American Humour
Belgium
Blogging
British series
Brussels
Chips
Chocolate
Coffie
Crisps
Cécémel
DeLorean cars
Dialects
Dictionaries
Dutch
Eating at the Quick (my favourite hamburger is the Giant)
Elodie
English
Films with guns in them
Flanders
Flemish Seaside
Franquin
French
Gaston Lagaffe
George Lucas
Ghostbusters
History
Home Alone
Honey I Shrank the Kids!
Kid Paddle
Languages
Lego
Listening to people who have something interessant to tell (of course!)
Little Britain
Luxembourg
Magic—The Gathering (TCG)
Milk
Money
Mr Bean (and thus Rowan Atkinson)
Namur
Parodies
Peter Jackson
Potatoes
Rice
Satire
Sausages
Seinfeld
Setting up lists
Silliness
Sleeping
Smurfs
Spotting combovers and mullets
Star Wars
Steven Spielberg
The Bunker
The Cat (by Philippe Geluck): THAT is philosophy
The Force
The Monty Python
Translation
University of Namur
Using the "…" symbol
Utrecht
Wallonia
Water
West-Flanders
West-Flemish
Wine (white, preferably)
Writing on this blog
Writing things between brackets
YouTube

Things that I dislike or hate

Being hurt (who doesn't?)
Being late
Being obliged to read books that you haven't chosen yourself (obviously, if you're obliged…)
Books written before the 20th century
Chips that cost too much (more than 2 €) and aren't big
Combovers (even if they make me laugh)
Delays
Dogmas (incl. religions)
Drunk people talking to walls (yeah, I see that quite often in Namur)
Eating vegetables (except for some)
Exams
Feeling sick (who doesn't?)
Feeling tired
First-person narration (even though I'm writing this)
French jokes (mostly about sex)
Getting up
Having to wait for the bus
Mullets (even if they make me laugh)
Nazis
Noise
Not being able to attend something because I'm busy somewhere else
People being late
People listening to music on their MP3 with sound level at full
People who don't work (I mean at school)
People who never laugh
People who smoke
People who stick with their opinion even if they know they aren't right
People with a peculiar hairstyle (combover, mullet, toupee)
Philosophy
Racism
Rain while you're stuck outside
Religious fundamentalists and extremists
Running
Smoke
Smokers
Taking cold showers (it happens when the heating system is out of service)
Taking the bus to go to university
The "Sciences religieuses" course
The university restaurant being crowded
Toupees (even if they make me laugh)
Walloon public transportation system (TEC)
Wars
Working a lot
Xenophobia

A Lot of Random Stuff

12/11/2008

Check mate

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Belgian vanity plates that I saw

Famous people I saw or met at least once (of course, nearly all of them come from Belgium)

People I dislike or hate or that irritate me (a selection)

Famous combovers

Things and people that I like

Things that I dislike or hate

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