QUOTE(Finneye @ Sep 23 2009, 12:55 PM)

I guess the Germans were wondering just as much as sportinlife.
The caption says: "He can't really be
eatig... or? No, it could not be. Moto-GP-Star Valentino Rossi just before a training start."
Monitor your mail for my
invoice...

As my mother use to say when we tried to trick her into giving us our way: "You're a day late and a dollar short." which I think applies here.
The reason for the behavior was already explained by boomer400
AND you left the "n" out of "eating" if that's what the word is.
Late-arriving damaged goods don't get paid for.
But we still love you, something Mom also would have said.