Smurf houses bombed!

[franceslievens]

Check it out here.

The crazy thing is that it isn't such a big deal over here. I didn't read it in the paper. I didn't see it on the news. I saw the ad once on the television yesterday. I was wondering why I was watching a Smurfs cartoon at nine in the evening – until the bombs fell. Pretty disturbing when you regularly watch children's television.
I was prepared, though. I had read about it on Boing Boing. That's strange. I had to read about something that regards my own country on Boing Boing! It goes to show that all this isn't such a big deal over here. It's just an ad and it will or won't raise money. I bet it'll raise more money if some local journalist pays some attention to the stir in the international internet-landscape. Even the folk over at the ASSB find it shocking enough to dedicate a thread to it, in which they talk about "the Belgians" like we're some strange culture dedicated to comics, chocolate and beer.

Comments

[candlelightfrot.livejournal.com]

Silly me I didn't know that the creator of the Smurfs was Belgian. I always thought they were an American thing... but then we always think everything is an American thing over here.

My apologies..... I like the Smurfs.

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

They're originally called Schtroumpfs in their native French. The animated cartoons are American, though -- produced by Hanna-Barbera. I always thought that was a French production.

The wikipedia entry on Smurf (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smurf) is very accurate about their invention.

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

No, no, the Belgians are all about the fries (or so we think here).

And we call them Schlümpfe. Smurfette is Schlumpfine.
Nasty little buggers.

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

Well, we call them Smurfen (before they were translated in English!) and Smurfette is Smurfin.

Frieten are good! (damn now I want fries...) Our frietkoten are the reason McDo didn't get really big in Belgium. The real Belgian chips shops are dieing out though. In Brussels I buy my fries in Turkish pitta-bars. (And that's another funny: dürüms are served here with fries... If there's some group of immigrants completely integrated it are the pittabar owners. *g*)