Chuck Norris - Bridge!
Rubiconic Crossings
01-08-2006, 16:01
What can I say....our world gets stranger and stranger....
friggn long url (http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2006-08-01T094605Z_01_L01355692_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-HUNGARY-BRIDGE.XML&src=rss)
Chuck Norris leads vote for Budapest bridge name
Tue Aug 1, 2006 10:46 AM BST144
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A new bridge in Hungary could be named after Hollywood action movie actor Chuck Norris unless the trend turns in an Internet vote organised by the Economy Ministry.
Votes for the "Chuck Norris Bridge" had attracted 8,725 votes or 11 percent by Tuesday morning, just ahead of those cast in favour of naming it after Hungarian humorist Geza Hofi and three times more than for Szent Istvan, founder of the state.
Votes can be cast until September 8 on the www.m0hid.gov.hu Web site, where people have put forward more than 500 nominations including Bud Spencer and Bob Marley, as well as names referring to construction delays such as "It Will Never Happen Bridge".
A government committee will review the three winning names, as well as other proposals put forward by local governments, cartographers, linguists and other experts. The bridge over the Danube north of Budapest is due to open in 2008.
:eek: Id prefer Geza Hofi Brigde to "chuck Norris"
New Xero Seven
01-08-2006, 16:18
Why the hell is does everyone mention Chuck Norris nowadays?!?!?!!?! :eek:
When will the obsession with the Norris ever end!?
Lunatic Goofballs
01-08-2006, 16:22
When will the obsession with the Norris ever end!?
*shows episodes of 'Walker, Texas Ranger' to a squad of scrotum-seeking attack weasels*
Plans are already being formulated. :)
Greater Alemannia
01-08-2006, 16:23
Fuck Yes.
Nureonia
01-08-2006, 16:28
How about the "Roundhouse Kick Memorial Bridge"?
Greater Alemannia
01-08-2006, 16:29
Who's bright idea was it to put the bridge's name up to internet poll, anyway?
Seriously though, it's a bit tight that the bridge will be named after the Lord Chuck Norris rather than a national hero. What about Imre Nagy? Or has he been overdone already?
Rubiconic Crossings
01-08-2006, 16:32
How about the "Roundhouse Kick Memorial Bridge"?
LOLOL!!!! yeah...that would be the one for me! LOL
I really am flabbergasted that the Hungarians are voting for Chuckers...brrrrrr!
Amusing, but I find it somewhat sad that culture and history are taking a backseat to testosterone and roundhouse kicks.
Rubiconic Crossings
01-08-2006, 16:58
Amusing, but I find it somewhat sad that culture and history are taking a backseat to testosterone and roundhouse kicks.
Welcome to the noughties....
(I do agree with you though....it is pretty sad....)
Evil Satanic OzMonkeys
01-08-2006, 17:15
Wait, Chuck plays bridge now? What is he, over the hill?
Non Aligned States
01-08-2006, 17:22
One day, in the distant future, I predict that there will by a Myrth option in selecting the names of landmarks.
Minoriteeburg
01-08-2006, 17:43
Wait, Chuck plays bridge now? What is he, over the hill?
he still owns.
A new bridge in Hungary could be named after Hollywood action movie actor Chuck Norris unless the trend turns in an Internet vote organised by the Economy Ministry.
Named from the interweb eh?
Its not to late to be "M****r F****n" Snakes On A " bridge.
Or possibly "All your bridge are belong to us"
ROFL bridge
Best not to name a bridge cracky or it could be cracky-chan bridge
Or a Bill Gates inspired Blue Bridge of Death.
Or the Spam Span
The Royal Nigerian span
Rubiconic Crossings
01-08-2006, 18:04
Named from the interweb eh?
Its not to late to be "M****r F****n" Snakes On A " bridge.
Or possibly "All your bridge are belong to us"
ROFL bridge
Best not to name a bridge cracky or it could be cracky-chan bridge
Or a Bill Gates inspired Blue Bridge of Death.
Or the Spam Span
The Royal Nigerian span
Not bad! LOL :)
I do like this one...Or a Bill Gates inspired Blue Bridge of Death.
good stuff!
United Chicken Kleptos
01-08-2006, 18:06
What can I say....our world gets stranger and stranger....
friggn long url (http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2006-08-01T094605Z_01_L01355692_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-HUNGARY-BRIDGE.XML&src=rss)
Chuck Norris leads vote for Budapest bridge name
Tue Aug 1, 2006 10:46 AM BST144
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A new bridge in Hungary could be named after Hollywood action movie actor Chuck Norris unless the trend turns in an Internet vote organised by the Economy Ministry.
Votes for the "Chuck Norris Bridge" had attracted 8,725 votes or 11 percent by Tuesday morning, just ahead of those cast in favour of naming it after Hungarian humorist Geza Hofi and three times more than for Szent Istvan, founder of the state.
Votes can be cast until September 8 on the www.m0hid.gov.hu Web site, where people have put forward more than 500 nominations including Bud Spencer and Bob Marley, as well as names referring to construction delays such as "It Will Never Happen Bridge".
A government committee will review the three winning names, as well as other proposals put forward by local governments, cartographers, linguists and other experts. The bridge over the Danube north of Budapest is due to open in 2008.
Chuck Norris - Actor, Karate master, and now, bridge in Budapest.
New Domici
02-08-2006, 00:02
Who's bright idea was it to put the bridge's name up to internet poll, anyway?
Seriously though, it's a bit tight that the bridge will be named after the Lord Chuck Norris rather than a national hero. What about Imre Nagy? Or has he been overdone already?
The Simpsons already covored the folly of this trend.
"Please proceed the the Butthead memorial auditorium. We really shouldn't have let the students name that one."