The Death of Poker Media?
Jonas Odman, VP of Bodog Network and Anonymous Tables
Proof That Online Poker Is Rigged!
Zynga Ready for Real Money Gaming or Trying to Hide Failures?
This is only poker related in that Gibraltar is where Party, 888, Mansion, Stan James, and a whole other lot of online gaming/poker companies have based their headquarters. Oh, and Bigg’s co-star in American Pie was Shannon Elizabeth who has had a somewhat unspectacular poker career.
In a scene that could have come from the comedy films that have made him famous, the 31-year-old star fought off the wild animal when he was attacked while sightseeing on the British colony.
He was visiting the disputed territory at the foot of Spain with friend and American Pie co-star Eddie Kaye Thomas when the pair came face to face with one of Gibraltar’s mascots.
“Jason and Eddie decided to go on the trip to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of Pie,” a source told US media.
“They were hiking in the woods when this monkey suddenly leapt on Jason from a tree and tried to bite his face off.
“Jason’s travelling companions managed to fend the beast off and Jason thankfully wasn’t seriously hurt, just shaken up.”
The actor abruptly ended his holiday as a result of the attack and returned to the US early.
The Gibraltar population of the Barbary macaque – a monkey commonly referred to as the Barbary ape because of its stubby tail – numbers more than 200.
They attract hundreds of tourists every day to the areas around Apes Den and the Siege Tunnels at the top of the Rock.
But signs warn of the dangers of approaching the animals and the threat of attacks on humans and the possibility of the spread of disease has led to authorities ordering regular culls.
British soldiers are thought to have introduced the apes, natives of north Africa, into Gibraltar in the mid-18th century to use for shooting practice.
Local folklore has it that the colony would cease to be British if the monkeys were to leave.
Winston Churchill took it seriously enough to ship extra monkeys from north Africa to Gibraltar during the Second World War.
Perhaps the funniest part of this article is that he went to Gibraltar to celebrate. :-)
Related Posts
-
In search of buzz, Asia bets on gambling
-
Gibraltar Update
-
Spain / Germany and the Euro 2008
-
Miss Gibraltar is Miss World 2009
Updates Emailed to You Hot Off the Press |
 |
Hi, my name is Bill Rini and this is my poker blog. I've been blogging about poker and the poker industry since around 2003-ish. Like most people I started out playing poker as entertainment in home games whenever we wanted to sit around and smoke cigars, drink beer, and eat pizza, and needed a good excuse. I started playing online shortly after the first online card rooms opened and it wasn't long before I was playing 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week or more. One day I received a phone call about a program manager position at Tiltware which was the company that consulted to Full Tilt Poker on software development and marketing. After Tiltware I spent about 2.5 years working at Party Poker where I was the poker room manager.
{ 1 comment… read it below or add one }
I spend half of my time living in spain, and have a place on the costa del sol which is basically next to gibralter. The only people who visit there are english people who say that they miss england. I don’t know why they don’t just visit england. There’s absolutely nothing in gibralter. It’s basically one commercial street surrounded at nothing.