And I've never understood the phneomenon of mocking the Belgians. I first noticed it on Monty Python's Flying Circus. Is there something about Belgium that I don't know?
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See? That's exactly what I'm on about. I don't think anyone even knows why they do it...
------------------ "If the rope is a quarter of a Zeuslength in size, then the Defiant shalt most naturally be seven times the thirty-second part of a Zeuslength?" -Boris Skrbic, 27-Sep-2000
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I imagine it's just because Belgium is funny to say. Plus, it's like, not even a real country. That Belgian guy from the Young Indiana Jones show was just French. Inspector Poirot? Same thing.
When they were drawing up the official map of Europe, they had some space left over, essentially. This also explains Lichenstein, Andorra, and everything east of Berlin.
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I'm Dutch and I'm proud of it! Great list Prakesh
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I have a bit of Dutch ancestry on both sides of my family. Do I count as being Dutch? :-)
------------------ "If the rope is a quarter of a Zeuslength in size, then the Defiant shalt most naturally be seven times the thirty-second part of a Zeuslength?" -Boris Skrbic, 27-Sep-2000
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*figures it out* Apparently, I'm 3/32 Dutch (about 9.4%). But, so far as I know, I'm not Belgian, which should make everyone happy. But I am an uncertain fraction Welsh, which I've gathered is held in about the same regard.
Oh, yeah. I'm also part French. And part Irish-Catholic. I can already hear everyone getting ready to beat me... *L*
------------------ "If the rope is a quarter of a Zeuslength in size, then the Defiant shalt most naturally be seven times the thirty-second part of a Zeuslength?" -Boris Skrbic, 27-Sep-2000
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Maybe you'd like to know that New York began as Nieuw (=New) Amsterdam. So, if the Dutch had just been a little more aggresve back then, you would all be speaking Dutch!
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Gurgeh: Yes, I know that. But my Irish ancestors were Catholics, and those seem to be the ones that are less well-liked. Hell, they had to emigrate to Canada and later move to Michigan, apparently because the US wasn't letting Catholics through over at Ellis Island and such.
------------------ "If the rope is a quarter of a Zeuslength in size, then the Defiant shalt most naturally be seven times the thirty-second part of a Zeuslength?" -Boris Skrbic, 27-Sep-2000
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