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To: Jeff Jordan who wrote (33345)	2/4/1998 6:54:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 61433

**OT*** Bill Gates full of whipped cream United Press International - February 04, 1998 18:16 %INTERNATIONAL %BELGIUM %GATES %PIE V%UPI P%UPI BRUSSELS, Feb. 4 (UPI) - Microsoft chief Bill Gates isn't considering a second career in slapstick comedy, but he still copped a pie in the face. The incident, which his handlers have not tried to sugercoat, occurred in Brussels where the software genius met Belgian government officials on his way home from this week's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Gates was well received in Belgium, even ''treated like royalty,'' according to local officials, who also lined up talks with the European Commission. But moments before he entered a Flemish government building in Flanders in northern Belgium, he was hit in the face by a cream pie. ''Mr. Gates acted like he had been struck by lightening,'' an eyewitness said. ''He froze and his spectacles were filled with cream, preventing him from seeing anything.'' Security guards immediately took the suddenly-crusty computer titan by the arms and escorted him into the building. The flaky attacker, armed with several more baked goods, whipped around and managed to nab Gates with another creamy treat, but a third missed him. Gates appeared offended, and possibly upset, but the pies were not thrown with malicious intent. The tart tosser is a well-known Belgian, Noel Godin, renowned for lobbing confectionary delights at celebrities during the Cannes Film Festival in France. -- Copyright 1998 by United Press International. All rights reserved. --