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Belgium Continues to Exist

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Friday, December 15, 2006 5:03 AM

CYBERSNARK


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061214/ap_on_re_eu/belgium_independence_h
oax


Quote:

Suddenly and shockingly, Belgium came to an end. State television broke into regular programming late Wednesday with an urgent bulletin: The Dutch-speaking half of the country had declared independence and the king and queen had fled. Grainy pictures from the military airport showed dark silhouettes of a royal entourage boarding a plane.

Only after a half hour did the station flash the message: "This is fiction."

It was too late. Many Belgians had already fallen for the hoax.

Frantic viewers flooded the call center of the RTBF broadcaster that aired the stunt. Embassies called Belgian authorities to find out what was going on, while foreign journalists scrambled to get confirmation.



It's like the political version of Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast.

Too bad the Belgians don't seem to have a sense of humour about it.

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Friday, December 15, 2006 6:39 PM

IHEARTFIREFLY


That's great. :) Thanks for posting.

"Can't take the sky..."

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Friday, December 22, 2006 6:43 AM

CAUSAL


Curse you Belgium! You'll get yours!!

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Thursday, February 8, 2007 2:21 PM

FUTUREMRSFILLION


I am not so sure about the whole "Belgium exists" thing.

I reckon it is up there with Idaho on the "list of them places wat they want us to think are real".

I am just sayin


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Thursday, February 8, 2007 2:25 PM

PENGUIN


I will believe in Belgium the day FMF says it does...




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Thursday, February 8, 2007 2:31 PM

FUTUREMRSFILLION


Quote:

Originally posted by Penguin:
I will believe in Belgium the day FMF says it does...




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Oh dear......Oh dear.......the pressure of maybe proclaiming existence! I think I need to go lie down!


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Thursday, February 8, 2007 2:36 PM

KHYRON


The European parliament is in Brussels, which is in Belgium... so if Belgium doesn't exist, neither does the European parliament! Looks like the Brits get their wish!



The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.

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Thursday, February 8, 2007 2:41 PM

FUTUREMRSFILLION


Quote:

Originally posted by Khyron:
The European parliament is in Brussels, which is in Belgium... so if Belgium doesn't exist, neither does the European parliament! Looks like the Brits get their wish!



The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.



Silly you. EVERYONE knows that the European Parliment doesn't really exist. There are just a bunch of blokes in Hounslow havin a laugh! Sit down the pub and make up a bunch of unrealistic rules and regulations and watch the little people go nuts.


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Friday, February 16, 2007 8:43 AM

CRUITHNE3753


Quote:

Originally posted by FutureMrsFIllion:
Silly you. EVERYONE knows that the European Parliment doesn't really exist. There are just a bunch of blokes in Hounslow havin a laugh! Sit down the pub and make up a bunch of unrealistic rules and regulations and watch the little people go nuts.



No, no, it was made up by UKIP so people will vote for them...

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Friday, February 16, 2007 8:47 AM

MSG


but but but...where does my chocolate come from if Belgium doesn't exist???

I now look to the all wise and all knowing FMF to tell me :)HUGS by the way FMF

"I'm not all that interested in the mental health of people who want to kill me. "- Leroy Jethro Gibbs



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Friday, February 16, 2007 8:54 AM

CITIZEN


It would have been more shameful if they had fallen for a broadcast saying aliens had landed...



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Friday, February 16, 2007 9:35 AM

DAYVE



...or spaghetti trees....

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Friday, February 16, 2007 9:36 AM

PENGUIN


...or waffles....




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Sunday, February 18, 2007 10:27 AM

CYBERSNARK




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Sunday, February 18, 2007 2:12 PM

SERYN


Quote:

Originally posted by Khyron:
The European parliament is in Brussels, which is in Belgium... so if Belgium doesn't exist, neither does the European parliament! Looks like the Brits get their wish!



The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.



aw see i'd get excited about that and join in hopefully with the Belgium-denialists, but sadly i have been to Belgium and know full well that it does indeed exist...

*sigh*


and yes, the average voter - i kinda wish that they had done politics classes in school, at least then i'd have an earthlies... but no... on we carried with P.E. (gym class) and now i don't know anyone who know or cares about it - they all seem excatly the same anyway, and trying to study them is an exercise in exploring the most soul destroying minutae known to man and still it seems to bear no relevence...



Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
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Sunday, February 18, 2007 2:17 PM

PENGUIN


Perhaps you only THOUGHT you were in Belgium!




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Sunday, February 18, 2007 2:25 PM

SERYN


no, i was there - we went to Ypre Cathedral and than i ate this strange pink stuff and was mildly nauseous for two days


Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
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Friday, March 2, 2007 8:09 AM

FUTUREMRSFILLION


Quote:

Originally posted by msg:
but but but...where does my chocolate come from if Belgium doesn't exist???

I now look to the all wise and all knowing FMF to tell me :)HUGS by the way FMF

"I'm not all that interested in the mental health of people who want to kill me. "- Leroy Jethro Gibbs


]

Pittsburgh


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Friday, March 2, 2007 8:10 AM

FUTUREMRSFILLION


Quote:

Originally posted by seryn:
no, i was there - we went to Ypre Cathedral and than i ate this strange pink stuff and was mildly nauseous for two days


Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
http://www.myspace.com/seryndippyt]

No No No the naseau was from the mind alterring drugs.....poor you.


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Friday, March 2, 2007 8:27 AM

CALLMESERENITY


Quote:

Originally posted by seryn:
[ Belgium... Belgium, Belgium, Belgium .



I have to say, I really don't appreciate hearing this kind of language in a public forum.



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Friday, March 2, 2007 9:11 AM

SCHOONER


Quote:

Originally posted by FutureMrsFIllion:
Quote:

Originally posted by msg:
but but but...where does my chocolate come from if Belgium doesn't exist???

I now look to the all wise and all knowing FMF to tell me :)HUGS by the way FMF



Pittsburgh




Okay, as a Pittsburgh resident, I categorically deny our involvement with agents of the Belgium Exists Secret Society (B.E.S.S). Trust me, if Belgian chocolates came from Pittsburgh, my wife and I would have found them by now.

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Friday, March 2, 2007 9:59 AM

SERYN


Can you know that for sure? Belgium supporters can be very sneaky.

Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
http://www.myspace.com/seryndippyt

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Friday, March 2, 2007 2:22 PM

FUTUREMRSFILLION


Shh, he hasn't been clued in yet. Perhaps they fear he would leak the location of the chocolate laboratory.


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Saturday, March 3, 2007 9:00 AM

SERYN


ok, i'll keep schtum till further notice.

You know every time someone replies to me on this thread, i get a notification in my inbox - big capital letters - BELGIUM CONTINUES TO EXIST (!!!)

And all I can think is

Oh dammit... Really? *sigh*

Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
http://www.myspace.com/seryndippyt

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Saturday, March 3, 2007 9:11 AM

PENGUIN


Let's see if it works!




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Saturday, March 3, 2007 9:41 AM

CYBERSNARK


Quote:

Originally posted by seryn:
You know every time someone replies to me on this thread, i get a notification in my inbox - big capital letters - BELGIUM CONTINUES TO EXIST (!!!)


Stay tuned for CNN's ongoing live coverage. . .

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Saturday, March 3, 2007 12:06 PM

CITIZEN


Well it's better than most of their news reporting.

Of course Fox will run a counter story:
No proof of world outside of America, Fox reports, you decide.



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Saturday, March 3, 2007 12:47 PM

SERYN


But if no world exists outside of America (thinks the American Public) where did I go on my last vacation? I mean it had all these strange people talking all funny, wierd food and all that, you know, history...

Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
http://www.myspace.com/seryndippyt

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Saturday, March 3, 2007 1:03 PM

CITIZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by seryn:
But if no world exists outside of America (thinks the American Public) where did I go on my last vacation? I mean it had all these strange people talking all funny, wierd food and all that, you know, history...

You didn't go anywhere, in fact you don't exist, and neither does this post.



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Saturday, March 3, 2007 2:16 PM

FUTUREMRSFILLION


Quote:

Originally posted by seryn:
But if no world exists outside of America (thinks the American Public) where did I go on my last vacation?



Hoboken







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Sunday, March 4, 2007 10:36 AM

SERYN


Quote:

Originally posted by FutureMrsFIllion:
Quote:

Originally posted by seryn:
But if no world exists outside of America (thinks the American Public) where did I go on my last vacation?



Hoboken








eh?

Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
http://www.myspace.com/seryndippyt

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Sunday, February 1, 2009 10:32 AM

FUTUREMRSFILLION


Quote:

Originally posted by Penguin:
I will believe in Belgium the day FMF says it does...




King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa



Telegram to KP.

Belgium still non-existent STOP Also no Idaho STOP All roads lead to Hoboken STOP We are doomed STOP

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Yes We Did!




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Saturday, February 7, 2009 5:49 AM

FUTUREMRSFILLION


bumpin for Seryn

I am on The List. We are The Forsaken and we aim to burn!
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Yes We Did!




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Saturday, February 7, 2009 8:32 AM

SERYN


It STILL exists?

gorram it! Something needs to be done, and soon...

Though it is worrying about Idaho... didn't something important used to come from there?


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