Spodes of the Week

Despite what everyone has always suspected, professional body builders have insisted that they are true athletes who don't need steroids or human growth hormones to bulk up.



Sure...well then how do they explain this little brouhaha?

According to this article (see below) by the Associated Press, this week's Belgian body building championships were canceled after competitors bolted at the first sight of a doping test.

In light of this news, we at the House of Spode are crowning Belgian body builders, and body builders in general, this week's Spode of the Week. Here's to you Mr. Pumping Iron Belgium...

The Belgian bodybuilding championship has been canceled after doping officials showed up and all the competitors fled.

A doping official says bodybuilders just grabbed their gear and ran off when he came into the room.

"I have never seen anything like it and hope never to see anything like it again," doping official Hans Cooman said Monday.

Twenty bodybuilders were entered in the weekend competition.Cooman says the sport has a history of doping "and this incident didn't do its reputation any good."

During testing of bodybuilding events last year, doping authorities of northern Belgium's Flanders region found that three-quarters of the competitors tested positive.

Spode of the Week #2

To make up for the late Spode of the Week, I'm adding a bonus Spodette of the Week. Presenting our honorary co-champion, Ms. Danielle Lloyd, originally of Liverpool.

(photo courtesy of www.chickipedia.com)

Besides being an entirely useless celebrity, essentially only famous for being famous (think Paris Hilton), she also sports one abomination of a tattoo running up her neck. While the Hebrew script could look pretty awesome when properly applied, Ms. Lloyd instead wound up with this on her neck.




What appears to have happened is that in an effort to take some focus of a sex tape scandal, Ms. Lloyd decided in the fall of 2008 to add a tattoo to her neck stating in Hebrew that "Only God Can Judge Me."

Unfortunately for the young Ms. Lloyd, neither she nor the tattoo artist appeared to have done their homework. Instead of saying "Only God Can Judge Me" in Hebrew, her tattoo says that in English, using hebrew letters to approximate the phonetics. Plus, the text (and error) is repeated twice.

Therefore, instead of receiving a cool Hebrew tattoo, Danielle Lloyd now permamently sports (or at least until has it lasered off or she covers it up with another tattoo) on her neck Hebrew letter's spelling out (more or less) "wnly gwd qn jdwg m, wnly gwd qn jdwg m."

Well done Ms. Lloyd, and congratulations on your first ever Spodette of the Week!

For more information check out this site detailing exactly what Danielle Lloyd did wrong.

Late Spode of the Week

Sorry for the belated Spode of the Week awards, work caught up with the members of the House of Spode executive committee and mayhem ensued. But enough excuses, we hereby present this weeks recipients of the Spode of Week award. This award goes to everyone involved in the making of this gem of film, which makes its debut on May 19.





If you've just finished watching the trailer, and wondering what that weird taste in your mouth is, your not alone. We at the House of Spode have determined that what you're currently tasting is the bitter taste of crappy film.

So congratulations to Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, this week's winners of the Spode of the Week award. May the movie by so bad that it becomes a cult classic.

Spodes of the Week

I've been trying to decide who would win the first ever Spode of the Week award. What is the Spode of the Week award? This weekly award goes to the person or people who I judge to have been the biggest idiots/douchebags of the past week. It is through this award that the House of Spode will attempt to fulfill its mission of humiliating those who have gotten to big for their black shorts.

So, far the past couple days, I've been wondering about who my inaugural winner would be. Well today I finally found my idiots. The first ever Spode of the Week award goes to these two idiots, representing the XARM league. Congratulations idiots, you've each been awarded one flying potato to the eye.





While this at first appears to be just a boring run of the mill arm-wrestling match, this is so much more. So, ladies and gentlemen, please join me as we congratulate these two idiots on their first Spode of the Week award.