Belgian jokes galore

Il shall first repeat in English what I wrote yesterday about the startling reaction of our possible (I sincerely hope not, because the guy has no use for Belgium any more) future prime minister, who, being invited to sing the Brabançonne, immediately broke into the Marseillaise. And the worst part of it is that he feels he had been trapped ! One of his French speaking colleagues remarked that he probably is not intelligent enough to memorize the words of our national anthem in French. We have a cartoon figure, Gaston Lagaffe (Guus Flater). Maybe there is a relation somewhere ? Shame, shame !

Today we also read that one of our princes (of which we have a busload, big and small) did not wear his marine uniform because it does not fit any more.

And, in order to give it a better image, tap water is going to be supplied in half litre boxes to local authorities. This is an initiative of the largest supplier of tap water in Flanders, the VMW. One week they are environment friendly ; the next ... plain crazy ?

By the way, I hugely enjoyed the hat worn by our queen, although I most certainly will not be disrespectfull to the point of calling it a joke.

And last but not least, o tempora, o mores, the Simpsons movie will be dubbed in Flemish. A sacrilege ! D' oh !! D' oh !! D' oh !!