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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/13/2011 2:11:42 AM

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mayo and french fries is just plain wrong...

Disagree. Good combo. It's Pommes Frites, btw. Goddamn Americans...

I have a fond memory of Gouda (pronounced Goo-duh by the really knowledgeable Ami tourists >cackle< just like the cheese! Goo-duh... >snort<) So anyway my buddy and ex-coworker at Shell was renting a flat there for 6 months with his wife Nancy. My wife and I took the A-train from A-dam to visit. Had a really nice lunch with some killer Charantais melon (I don't know why I remember food, but I do. I can eat something in Oaxaca and duplicate it in the US weeks later. A bizarre skill. Just like my wandering off the topic

) So my ex, John and I (Nancy hated boats) took a canal boat out on the lake, a 3 hour tour hehehe. Midway, John turned to me and said, "Scott, I think I know that guy." Turns out they were ex-classmates, lived on the same block, childhood buddies, chased the same little Tulips of budding Dutch womanhood, and so on... they hadn't seen each other for over 50 years! (John was a bit over 62 at the time). SO John and Nancy went back to the town where he grew up, they had this big reunion, and John was there at the Hospice when the guy died. All because J and I decided to go down on Tuesday, rather than the previous day, like we had planned (jet lag). That was just such a very fine thing to have happened. I get all sentimental about things like that.

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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/13/2011 3:26:00 AM

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Wow HK that's a really really moving story.

And Liechtenstein is not that far away :)
You ought to see the candlelight night in Gouda once..... at Christmaseve. That's something to remember.

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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/13/2011 3:30:52 AM

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He's doing what we in the America's call "pulling your chain".

Since we're on the topic of Holland, can you tell me what people over there are saying about the government's new plan to ban sale of cannabis to tourists?
I know that while it's not a main part of revenues, it's GOT to be somewhat significant, so I am sure the opions are flying around. I would love to know what you've heard. As a person on the streets, so to speak.

I live near the German border and we have coffeshops in town.
These coffeeshops are controlled by the local goverment.
We don't have any problems with tourist smoking. They don't give trouble. They are nicely inside the coffeeshop, out of sight.

What we worry about is, that the drugs thing is going undergound again.
That means we will have drug wars again. Dealers waiiting on every corner etc etc.
In short..we will step back in time and start all over.

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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/13/2011 3:37:49 AM

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yeah, leaving us in despair

not to mention that you invaded our TV with this Mister here (RIP): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzEOvyDcVas

That deserter! Him emigrating to Germany was the single biggest disaster in twentieth century Dutch television.

I loved his Dutch shows. Even though he had left The Netherlands, he often was in the news. Though in Germany he was every day in the news, of course, on just about every page of every Zeitung und Blätter. I expect that it requires a large loft to store everything the Germans wrote about him.

Well, he also produced shows over here...

we also still have...Johannes Heesters over here

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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/13/2011 3:41:42 AM

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An interesting story.... When the Nazi's overran the Netherlands, the royal family fled to Canada, they lived in Ottawa (that's why we get a shipment of tulips every spring and why we have a Tulip Festival). Anyway, when the present queen's sister was born in Ottawa, there was some concern about her potential citizenship status. So for the delivery, the maternity ward of the Civic Hospital was declared to be "not Canadian territory". So in the technical legal sense, she was born in international territory, and therefore not eligible for citizenship anywhere, except in the Netherlands (due to her parentage).

that problem still pops-up once in a while.
People like to keep old things alive..lol
Rumors even go that our Queen has 2 passports. The origin of our royal family gives her the right to become British when she wants.
Some people dislike this, but it is just how royal families worked in the past. The royals married the royals..to keep their power and royal blood clean.

for more info..google
'Act for the Naturalization of the Most Excellent Princess Sophia, Electress and Duchess Dowager of Hanover'
Sophia, keurvorstin van Hannover (1640-1713)

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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/13/2011 3:44:13 AM

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Well, he also produced shows over here...
we also still have...Johannes Heesters over here

OMFG!!!

I actually did forget him....

Remember this one ???

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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/13/2011 3:46:17 AM

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I guess Tiesto and the other trance dude are more popular export products now lol

But Georg was great too ( he still sings that great now..beeing way older)

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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/13/2011 3:49:43 AM

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I guess Tiesto and the other trance dude are more popular export products now lol

But Georg was great too ( he still sings that great now..beeing way older)

Seen him in The beste zangers van Nederland?
He did really great there.

And speaking of that subject.... Lange Frans en Anita Meijer?? Kippevel.

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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/13/2011 3:52:39 AM

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Yes the old and new combination was very good. Have to agree

Lange Frans is a dutch rapper..Anita is a 70's/80's popstar. We have a tv program now that lets 2 artist sing each others song. They are free to rewrite it.
Sometimes you get great results.

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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/13/2011 4:03:33 AM

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Wow HK that's a really really moving story.

And Liechtenstein is not that far away :)
You ought to see the candlelight night in Gouda once..... at Christmaseve. That's something to remember.

I'm not really from Liechtenstein. I live outside Atlanta. But I've been there with my ex and her sister. We took sister as a Uni graduation present. We went up to Triesenberg, bought some lunch stuff, and sat on the side of a hill overlooking Vaduz. All was good except the blood sausage. Too much fat and gristle.

I do miss John Johannes Musters. He was a good man, and my mentor at Shell R&D in Houston.

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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/13/2011 6:00:44 AM

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Well, he also produced shows over here...
we also still have...Johannes Heesters over here

OMFG!!! I actually did forget him....

Well...we still have him...he is now 107.5 years old

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Remember this one ???

ain't working here:
Leider ist dieses Video, das Musik von UMG beinhaltet, in Deutschland nicht verfügbar, da die GEMA die Verlagsrechte hieran nicht eingeräumt hat.

A while ago he was in the news here as he had received an invitation which had to do with a celebration in regards to Queen Beatrix or so but then was excluded again...as they had invited too many folks

http://www.noows.de/lifestyle/johannes-heesters-von-staatsbankett-ausgeladen-4886

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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/13/2011 10:10:44 AM

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I have a fond memory of Gouda (pronounced Goo-duh by the really knowledgeable Ami tourists >cackle< just like the cheese! Goo-duh... >snort<) about things like that.

Yeah, you're not pronouncing the "G" right unless you've left phlegm on the lapel of the person across from you...

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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/13/2011 10:50:29 AM

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Not a cheese person but white asparagus really isn't that great. Fresh herring however, is worth its weight in gold.

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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/13/2011 10:54:38 AM

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Hey some Americans use wooden shoes... we used to buy them for our lute men when standing on hot blacktop.

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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/13/2011 12:15:28 PM

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Not a cheese person but white asparagus really isn't that great.

I prefer it to the green one

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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/13/2011 9:12:08 PM

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Not a cheese person but white asparagus really isn't that great. Fresh herring however, is worth its weight in gold.

Well I don't know about that. I was wandering about East Berlin back around May 2000, when I began to feel a bit peckish. I found a restaurant that had some outdoor seating, and I ordered some white asparagus with hollandaise, with braised carrots and potatoes, and a bit of salmon, as accompanients. The white asparagus was just coming in to season from Beelitz, a town a bit SE of Berlin, and was all over town. Everyone had special "Spargelkarte" menus at their restaurants. This stuff was really sweet, with a nice subtle asparagus flavor, and really tender.

A real delight.

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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/14/2011 12:10:52 AM

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I am in on this with Phoenix.... The green ones does taste better :)

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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/14/2011 1:14:27 AM

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I love whtie asparagus with tons of butter and garlic...

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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/14/2011 1:28:29 AM

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Well I just like 'm with a buttersauce and egg in it.
Here's a little tip.... When you put some milk in the cookingwater, they taste softer and sweeter.

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RE: All about Holland and inhabitants - 6/14/2011 1:34:29 AM

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