"Just put me as 'similarly' for anything mentioning how funny 'Flemish' and 'Walloon' sound. 'Flemish.' Ha!"—Adam Bonin

"Were they at a Vulcan game? Did the Vulcans, trained by the former concert pianist, play football/soccer with a piano? And did that cause irritating noise, which got on the nerves of usually sedate soccer fans leading them to overreact?"—Alfa-Betty Olsen (Dee Lacey and Andrew Puzzio had similar answers.)

"Step aside, Walloons! The Vulcans will defeat the Flemish once and for all ... using Mathletics!"—Josh Kamensky

"Could you just put me down as 'similarly' for any answers involving Vulcans beating a soccer team of any nationality using Mathletics? Thanks."—Sharon Stern

"The annual 'Pissing-Boy Statue' Look-Alike Contest. High winds were blamed for the violence."—Evan Cornog

"They were all trying to foul Shaq in the lane, and the man still scored."—Greg Diamond

"UEFA football match, not 'solemnized' by prayer beforehand. Nino was right!"—Adam Bonin

"You know, maybe the Euro 2000 match between England and Germany was the wrong time to have 'Free-Bat, Broken-Bottle, and Bicycle-Chain Night' at the Liège stadium."—Tim Carvell

"Dress rehearsal for the Unity 2000 protesters of the Republican convention in Philly."—Anthony Wright

"Tickets went on sale for Charles Aznavour's October dates at the Forum de Liège. Scalping has really gotten out of control."—Deborah Wassertzug

"Belgians haven't quite got the hang of this boy group thing yet."—Chris Hurst

"The première episode of the new Belgian game show Who Wants To Be a Rampaging Thug? hosted by Regis Philbin."—Ed Page (similarly, Page Barnes and Sharon Stern)

"The Liège Chamber of Commerce's ill-fated theme night: 'Halloween in Detroit.' "—Mark Terry

"If the answer isn't 'soccer,' then I have to rethink everything I know about the universe."—Francis Heaney

"Belgium's first (and presumably last) 'Hug a Complete Stranger Day.' "—Tim Carvell

"Euro Conversion Day ... two euros for a quarter."—William Vehrs

"The City Hall protest by angry locals, over a plan to change the name of 'Liège' to 'Levittown.' "—Larry Amoros

"An Asterix the Gaul convention. That's what they get for meeting on Tintin turf."—Daniel Radosh

"The Shapiro bar mitzvah got a little bit out of hand."—"LisaJ"

"The new Jean-Claude Van Damme movie premièred—and, boy, does it stink!"—Mark Romoser

"It was England's Queen Mum's soccer tailgate party. Apparently she drank too much stout and started rampaging in the streets, cutting ribbons and making speeches at children's hospitals."—Mark Shotzberger

"I had no idea the Girl Scouts had spread to Europe."—Raymond Chen

"The opening of the international hooligism hall of fame."—David Feige (similarly, Dee Lacey)

"The Siege in Liège, baby! Brought to you by the WWF! Oooooooooh yeeeeeeaaaaaah!"—Andrew Puzzio (similarly, Mark Romoser)

"The working classes saw the bidet in the boss's bathroom. Now everyone wants one."—Jason Ross

"I don't know, but if it was Belgium, it must have been sooo fun, and soooo very interesting."—Neal Pollack

Those Funny Foreigners and Their Funny, Funny Food Corner

"Moule 2000."—Beth Sherman

"McDonalds refused to put mayonnaise on the French fries any longer and offered only ketchup, another example of American arrogance and cultural hegemony."—Edward C. Simpson (all but identically, Michael J. Ostacher)

"The annual running of the ... what the heck would they run in Belgium? ... chocolate bars?"—Mark Romoser (similarly chocolicious, Charlie Glassenberg, Dee Lacey, Joe Hawk, Antony Altbeker, and Whitney Pastorek)

"The 100^th Annual World Series of Belgian Waffles Cook-Off. It seemed so harmless, who would have thought it would attract WTO protesters?"—Troy Flint (similarly waffling, Dee Lacey, Anthony Wright, Francis Heaney, Michael Levy, Doug Welty, Greg Diamond, Art Nelson, Michael Hoffmann, and Peter O'Toole)

"The national 'Eat a Sprout for the Solstice' contest turned nasty when several contestants resisted the 'here comes the choo-choo train—open wide' strategy."—David Oakes

Puerto Rican Day Parade Corner

(similarly, Anthony Wright, Andrew Puzzio, Tim Lowell, Greg Diamond, Josh Kamensky, Greg Narver, Winter Miller, Mark Wade, and Stasia Ananson)

"La Parade du Jour Puerto Rican."—Tim Carvell and Ben Heller

"Uh-oh, looks like the gendarmerie didn't get the 'hands off' memo about the 'Liège Puerto Rico Day Parade.' "—Charlie Glassenberg

Self-Reference Corner

"People mad at 'The Ethicist' avoiding a tough ethics dilemma last Sunday with a glib answer."—Anthony Wright

"People were impatiently waiting to be test subjects as the prostitutes tried out their News Quiz-inspired 'proper blow-job techniques.' "—Pete Miesel

"Let's just hope they weren't all female thugs who independently thought to start a riot. I'd hate to see Greg Diamond lose another night's sleep."—Lori Geddes

"I'm sorry, I'm still finding it hard to concentrate. Am I to understand that, in the last quiz, three separate people named Josh Kamensky independently thought to submit responses based on the power of Mathletics?"—Greg Diamond (similarly, Adam Bonin)