Der Untergang von Fortis

Just like in that video from Der Untergang (which was given fake subtitles about Hitler getting angry when he finds out somebody stole his car) somebody had the brilliant idea to turn Hitler's speech into a comment onto the financial crisis:



PS. Thanks to Magali for suggesting this video.

World's cheapest man — not even a Dutchman ;-)

This is just a silly sketch that I found:

Pl8ts

Last month, an auction took place in order to sell licence plates featuring a very low or special number. The money that was raised went to a government-run charity for the victims of traffic accidents in the United Arab Emirates. The record of the most expensive licence plate ever was broken: the plate featuring '1' as its only inscription was sold for $14 million! Just for a piece of metal! These people are crazy, don't you think?



I bet you probably wonder how this boy can already have so much money — probably several million$…

Here's a video showing the whole auction of '1'.



In Belgium, really low numbers (ranging from 1 to 100) are reserved for members of the Royal Household. King Albert II traditionally has '1' on his car (especially on the National Day and for other special occasions). Prince Philippe usually travels with the number 43, and auntie Fabi(ola) with 12. Let me also remind you that in Belgium, there are only two sorts of vanity plates:

• a combination of three letters and three digits for €624,00, e.g. DOC-001
• any combination of two letters and three digits for €874,00, e.g. TR.001.
  

The previous record was for '5', sold for $6.8 million! (Ten times as expensive as the big Rolls Royce it's on!)



I have a question for you all: if you could get a Belgian licence plate for free, which code would you ask from the administration? Please answer!

Another silly record

A guy had the idea of building a penny pyramid. It looks like this:



Wait, that guy decided to make it even bigger:



408,135!

Another totally silly world record: the man with the most t-shirts worn at one time:



I'm sure you know people who speak fast, but I bet no one matches this guy:



Fluent, isn't he? But totally incomprehensible, of course.

eBay

I'm currently preparing a blog entry with parody stuff about Yoda (one of my favourite Star Wars characters) and since one of those spoofs was made by Weird Al Yankovic, I thought I could feature another song of him. This one describes quite cleverly eBay, the best-know website for selling things you don't need anymore. (That's better than a bonfire, as they do in Little Britain.)



Lyrics:

A used ... pink bathrobe
A rare ... mint snowglobe
A Smurf ... TV tray
I bought on eBay

My house ... is filled with this crap
Shows up in bubble wrap
Most every day
What I bought on eBay

Tell me why (I need another pet rock)
Tell me why (I got that Alf alarm clock)
Tell me why (I bid on Shatner's old toupée)
They had it on eBay

I'll buy ... your Nik Naks
Just check ... my feedback
"A++!" they all say
They love me on eBay

Gonna buy (a slightly-damaged golf bag)
Gonna buy (some Beanie Babies, new with tag)
(From some guy) I've never met in Norway
Found him on eBay

I am the type who is liable to snipe you
With two seconds left to go, whoa
Got Paypal or Visa, what ever'll please ya
As long as I've got the dough

I'll buy ... your tchotchkes
Sell me ... your watch, please
I'll buy (I'll buy, I'll buy, I'll buy ...)
I'm highest bidder now

(Junk keeps arriving in the mail)
(From that worldwide garage sale) (Dukes Of Hazard ashtray)
(Hey! A Dukes Of Hazard ashtray)
Oh yeah ... (I bought it on eBay)

Wanna buy (a PacMan Fever lunchbox)
Wanna buy (a case of vintage tube socks)
Wanna buy (a Kleenex used by Dr. Dre, Dr. Dre)
(Found it on eBay)

Wanna buy (that Farrah Fawcet poster)
(Pez dispensers and a toaster)
(Don't know why ... the kind of stuff you'd throw away)
(I'll buy on eBay)

What I bought on eBay-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y

This parody song was a spoof on I want it that way, by the Backstreet Boys. (I admit I didn't know that. I hardly know anything about popular music, actually. Poor me!) Here's the video if you want to compare:

Star Ads

Here's a spoof on those MasterCard commercials ("There are things money can't buy" and such) but applied to Star Wars:



M&Ms gave itself to the Dark Side:



Brilliant! I wanted to show you a commercial with C3PO and R2D2 in a moralistic message against smoking, but as embedding was disabled, just click here to watch the video.

And to conclude, we see that Yoda is addicted to Pepsi, but just like Marty McFly in Back to the Future, the green creature doesn't get a Pepsi free…

Ads, ads, ads

Prison bièsse:



Brilliant!

The following one is probably a fake one, given the incorrect spelling of whose at the end. Thanks to Mr Romero for sharing this with us last year.



That's a shame this is not a real commercial. Quite the contrary, this one is real. (Once again, many thanks to Mr Romero.)



Today's Uncyclopedia featured article: Disneyland.

Had I time enough… (and money!)

I told you several months ago about my passion for Lego bricks and I featured a picture of the biggest set ever, containing not less than 5195 pieces: the Ultimate Collector's Millenium Falcom™ from the second Star Wars trilogy. This spacecraft specially designed for Star Wars and Lego freaks (this includes me, obviously) was released in November, with a limited edition with an "authenticity certificate" signed by some head of Lucasfilm licencing or something like that. Now, the set is still available on the Lego online shop, but without the card (who cares?) The point is that I wanted to show you what it's like to build such a huge thing in Lego bricks. Check this wonderful video:



We have nearly 6 minutes in stop-motion, and the video's maker says on the YouTube page that it took him 37 hours over 11 days! Had I time enough! And money, indeed: €550. And the most surprising is that the prizes vary considerably in countries that don't use the euro as currency:

• United Kingdom --> £350 ≈ €525
• Switzerland --> CHF780 ≈ €490
• United States --> $500 ≈ €340
• Belgium --> €550…!!! Outrageous!

Perhaps in another life.

Carte des gagnants Lotto en 2006

This "carte des gagnants Lotto en 2006" (map of Lotto winners in 2006) strikes me: it represents the places where amounts superior to 5000 € were won. You can only figure out that the Flemish (people living in the North side of Belgium) win a lot more than the Walloons… Is it due to the fact that the Flemish are richer, and thus can afford to spend more money on such games as the Lotto? Or is it because they are 6 millions, and we're only 3 millions…? Anyway, it's an interesting card. Maybe I should play in Flanders…