In de gloria: Gilbertke!

Remember Gilbert from the Rutte 98 sketch in West-Flemish? I found it in this fragment from In de gloria…

Sinterklaas komt aan

In order to make a living Jean-Pierre Van Rossem (a BV known for being an anarchist and for a big fraud scandal) decided to play Sinterklaas and today he visits a typical Flemish family. This fragment comes from Chris and Co.



To understand the Monopoly/Karl Marx joke, please read this:

He became famous with 'Moneytron', a stockmarket investment company that could offer apparently endless returns.

Van Rossem had developed a model that could predict the stock market and beat the capitalist system. His sympathies for the theories of Karl Marx did not stop him investing for the very wealthy in the world and accumulating 800 million dollars for himself. He declares himself an "anarchist".

"Provençaalse kip"

Here's a funny parody of Lekker thuis, a cooking programme broadcast on the Flemish channel VTM and hosted by Piet Huysentruyt (a West-Fleming). This parody was a sketch for 'Chris en Co'.

iCock nano

What happens when Bill Gates from Microsoft meets Steve Jobs from Apple, Inc.?



"You want to see my Dick?"
"Ah yeah, sure…"
"Here."
"Yeah, that's tiny also!"
"Yeah, I was born like that!"

--> Genius

(This sketch comes from the Harry and Paul show.)


On Windows Vista you can sometimes see crazy notifications pop up…

“At least I don't have to press the "START" Button to SHUT MY COMPUTER DOWN any more. That didn't make any sense.”

~ Oscar Wilde on Vista

“You do know that this is still called the "START" button, right?”

~ Me on Oscar Wilde's quote

I prefer Rutte 98, if you want my opinion…

A Little Bit of Flemish Today

These poor West-Flemish people speak in such a dialect that it can't be understood by a large range of people in Flanders, hence the fact that they have to be subtitled quite automatically. But one man dares to stand up against this injustice:



I found a little sketch with our (still!) Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt voiced over in West-Flemish in order to create some silly story:



I admit I didn't understand 100% of it, but it's quite funny to listen to this regional variety of Dutch.

Who?

Probably taken from a real-life example:



I bet such things happen in the White House…

And as we're making fun of G.W. Bush, why wouldn't you watch this thing I posted earlier on:



And I really like the end of this (of course, you need to know the tune):

West-Flemish People Can Count!

… of course they do! They aren't that silly, after all. It's just that they have a peculiar dialect, that's all. Let's hear them:



While searching for a guy's name, I found the exhaustive list. I decided to make links for people I knew, at least by their names.

1. Raoul Servais
2. Geert Hoste
3. Martien Jonckheere
4. Gouverneur Breyne
5. Jean-Pierre Van Rossem(wow, he's whiter than the last time I saw him, shouting "Leve de republiek, Vive la république européenne, Vive Lahaut!" at the coronation of H.M. Albert II on 9 August 1993; I'd like to have the same haircut as him…)
6. Phaedra Hoste
7. Veerle Deblauwe
8. Dirk Frimout (Curious: the French article is more extended than the Dutch one… and there's also an article in West-Flemish!)
9. Lieven Debrauwer
10. Hans Vermeersch
11. Brahim
12. Jean-Pierre Coopman
13. Chris Lomme
14. Wim Delvoye
15. Chris Dusauchoit
16. Luk Alloo
17. Herr Seele
18. Peter Quaeghebeur
19. Carolien Van den Berghe
20. Elsje Helewaut
21. Wendy Van Wanten
22. Ann Demeulemeester
23. Marc Degryse
24. Anabelle Van Nieuwenhuyse
25. Michiel Devlieger
26. Lieven Verstraete
27. Will Tura
28. Marleen Vanhecke
29. Mathias Sercu
30. Peter Verhelst
31. Geike Arnaert
32. Kris Deborghgraeve
33. Frederick Deburghgraeve
34. Karl Vannieuwkerke
35. Evy Gruyaert
36. Carl De Keyzer
37. Leen Demaré
38. Friedl Lesage
39. Tom Van Landuyt
40. Flip Kowlier
41. Pieter Aspe
42. Chantal Pattyn
43. Gerda Dendooven
44. Johan Museeuw
45. Michiel Hendryckx
46. Freddy Maertens
47. Piet Goddaer
48. Wim Opbrouck
49. Freddy Devadder
50. Willem Vermandere
51. Tanja Saw
52. Henry d'Udekem d'Acoz
53. Jan Bucquoy
54. Kamagurka
55. Michel D'Hooghe
56. Peter Vandermeersch
57. Marc Van Eeghem
58. Kurt Van Eeghem
59. Els Pynoo
60. Arno

Ok, I admit it: I don't know a lot of BVs from West-Flanders. Shame on me. I hope the links are working properly — cause it took me half an hour to get everything!!!

G. W. Bush Can Speak West-Flemish!!!

I thought I couldn't understand a single word of this Flemish dialect, but I think this stuff is pretty explicit…



Ik heb juust in m'n broek gescheten! :D :D :D