Archive for March, 2008

Birthdays – 31 March

Born on this day:

1948 – Al Gore (60) -  Vice President of the United States and Nobel winner for the An Inconvenient Truth documentary
1983 – Paddy McCarthy (25) – Irish footballer
What happened back then:
1889 :  the Eiffel Tower was inaugurated. Long live la France!
2007 : About 2,2 millions of Australians took part to the Earth [...]

Sarkozy vs Bush jr.

So George W. Bush isn’t the smallest president after all. At least he’s taller than the French president, Nicholas Sarkozy.  Unfortunately I can’t say the same thing about their IQ!
P.S: I don’t know if this picture is for real or is photoshoped! What do you think?

Birthdays – 30 March

Born on this day:

1930 – John Allen Astin (78) – American actor, best known for Gomez in The Addams Family. Ah, cherie …
1937 – Warren Beatty (71) – American actor, producer, screenwriter, director, husband and a father of 4. Does the name Dick Tracy ring a bell to you? Ask Warren more about Dick. [...]

Birthdays – 29/03/2008

Born on this day:

1942 – Julie Goodyear (66) – English Television actress
1957 – Christopher Lambert (51) – American Actor, best known as Lord Rayden in Mortal Kombat and Highlander
1963 – Elle “The Body” Macpherson (45) – Australian Supermodel and Actress
1968 – Lucy Lawless (40) – New Zeeland actress famous for Xena, from Xena the Warrior [...]

Stupidity of the day – 28/03/2008

A British guy from Devon (South West England), who had won £6.9million at the National Lottery, lost his prize because he didn’t come to claim it.
The winners are given 180 days to claim their prizes otherwise they will lose any rights to claim it after.
A National Lottery spokesman said:
“We were desperate to unite the ticket-holder [...]

Birthdays – 28/03/2008

Born on this day:

1969 – Brett Ratner (39): Director, famous for X Men: The Last Stand; Red Dragon (one of my favorite Anthony Hopkins movie) and many more.
1970 – Vince Vaughn (38): American film actor, famous for comedies such as: Wedding Crashers; Starsky&Hutch; The Cell and many more.
1981 – Julia Stiles (27): American actress, famous [...]

Geert Wilders’ film about the Quran

I feel the need to comment upon this subject! Maybe the Quran is talking about killing and destroying the enemy (I don’t know, I’ve never had any interest in reading it) but I don’t think that we should blame only the Arab terrorists for the 9/11 events.
Anyway, I’m not a religious person and I find [...]

Prison Break – season 4

The filming for Season 4 will begin in May, in Los Angeles and is planned to be 22 episodes.
The great news is that Sarah Wayne Callies is coming back as Dr. Sara Tancredi. So, the producers will have to put her head together and film another great Prison Break season.
She left the set because she [...]

Sexist attitude in a clinic in Spain

Punishment! About 20 nurses from a clinic in Cadiz, Spain who are wearing pants during work are payed with 30 euro less than the rest of the fellow colleagues.
The San Rafael clinic nurses are outraged after they were told their paychecks were going to be cut back with 30 euro due to the fact that [...]

Thomas Beatie – the first pregnant man

Thomas Beatie seems to be the first pregnant man. Well, this affirmation is not very accurate because Thomas Beatie was a woman, before changing his sex.
Thomas is trangender so she decided to change her sex.
To our neighbors, my wife, Nancy, and I don’t appear in the least unusual. To those in the quiet Oregon [...]