Some days ago.. I read on the wild web something about this.. (BREIN/BAF)
this logo was used many moons ago on just every vhs cassette in the world! (or at least, the Dutch ones.. who were also used in Belgium)
It just happend to have a song attached to it and with a little search I found out this song is real and made somewhere in de 90's.. Who knew this would be the intro to every 90's kid's memory of watching vhs tapes!?
What is it? And why did it play on every VHS?
The Bescherming Rechten Entertainment Industrie Nederland (Dutch for '(Foundation for the) Protection of the Rights of the Entertainment Industry of the Netherlands'; abbreviated as BREIN, 'Brain') is an advocacy group[1] with international links, based in the Netherlands, which represents the interests of the Dutch entertainment industry and is organised under the Dutch law through the legal form of stichting. It is notable for launching court proceedings against copyright infringement in the country and for engaging in lobbying in order to create legal precedents of global significance.
https://stichtingbrein.nl/
Before this.. we had this.. NVPI.. also a welknown tune!
NVPI (Nederlandse Vereniging van Producenten en Importeurs van beeld- en geluidsdragers) (English: The Dutch Association of Producers and Importers of image- and sound-carriers) is the Dutch trade association of the entertainment industry. The NVPI represents most of the Dutch record companies, video distributors, and game-software distributors.[1]
A cherished piece.. this folder full of the adventures of DOKUS....
Dokus de leerling (L'Élève Ducobu) is een Belgische stripreeks getekend door Godi en geschreven door Zidrou. Zij wordt uitgegeven bij Le Lombard. De strip zelf bestaat uit gags van één pagina (soms meerdere pagina's). De strip was lange tijd te zien in het kinderweekblad Zonneland.
I made it my job to get every one of hem little comics from the schools 'magazine'.. over the years.. (ZONNELAND)
I collected each and everyone of them in the course of my schoolyear.. (I think it was between 1993 and 1995) I got this comic! I really loved the fact that the main character couldn't math.. just like me! His multiplication tables where always a near miss.. just like I did back in the day! And I swear.. i'm still bad at it! He also cheated meticulously with his neighbour 'Leonie' .. in class (that I did only once!..) in the 3rd of 4th year? I still remember it, because I was cheatshamed it on the playground the very minute after! I Never did it again ever ever ever!
Just like I collected the comics of Suske and Wiske.. I really enjoyed collecting these as well.. but I never got the 'real' comic books though..
Tussen het uitbrengen van de albums verstrijkt steeds een jaar. Toch blijven Dokus en Leonie telkens in dezelfde klas zitten (waarschijnlijk in het 6de jaar). Voor Dokus is dat niet verbazingwekkend omdat hij alleen nullen haalt. Voor Leonie die het jaar telkens met 99,999% afsluit is dit erg frustrerend. De tekenaars hebben dit al enkele malen in een gag gestopt.
Zowel Dokus als Leonie wonen bij één ouder. Dokus' ouders zijn gescheiden en Dokus ziet zijn moeder nooit. Leonies vader is vertrokken vlak na haar geboorte.
Dokus is geboren op 1 april, om 00.00. Leonie is geboren op 10 oktober, om 10 over 10
Meneer Peeters had vroeger even slechte punten als Dokus.
De school waar de strip zich afspeelt heet de Sint-Hillariusschool. (in het Frans: École primaire de Saint-Potache)
Een running gag in de strip is het dictee dat Meneer Peeters altijd geeft aan de klas van Dokus. Dit dictee, getiteld 'De paddenstoelenvangst', begint bijna altijd met 'Wij verzamelden een mooie oogst aan paddenstoelen:' gevolgd door een opsomming van moeilijk te spellen paddenstoelennamen. De uitvinder, genaamd Hermanus Geniep, schreef er honderddertig varianten van. Soms is er ook een soortgelijk dictee beginnend met 'Wij stelden een charmant boeket samen van...'. Nog iets dat zich vaak herhaalt is dat Meneer Peeters Dokus de tafels van vermenigvuldiging opvraagt. Hij zal ook bijna altijd eerst vragen wat 6 × 7 is.
there is also a wall (somewhere in Brussels) dedicated to Dokus! Here it is...
Memorabel honors and mention for this second post goes to this song I heard on wednesday when sitting in the car for the gazzillionst time for the kids to be ready for art/swim/music/ordanceclass.. and it just hit me.. in the feels!
and yes.. it's a song from studio brussels.. and yes I like this radiostation.. (it even played golden oldies from greenday and blink 182)
it's a dutch rap song by Yong Yello with catchy tunes and even more catchy lyrics.. it gets from realism to gloomy (needing medication to get trhough the day) very fast... but one particular refrain quites resemblance just everybody now.. will highlight it for you. This song has been around since march 2025! So quite young! (get it? Yong Yello?) no.. too much, sorry.
Why does all those catchy songs have such deeper meaning?! I wonder..
