Re: OT: My wedding pictures

 --- Peter Clark skrzypszy:

> Hmm...here in Leftpondia, "birthday hat" refers to the small paper cone
> affixed to one's head with a string or elastic. I guess it was part of the
> play.
Ah, you meant *that* hat! No, that was an ordinary party hat. Indeed, it was
part of the play.

> (I, too, am a fanatic drinker of milk--nothing wrong with that. Go through
> two gallons--7.5l--a week.)
How much is that in litres? I'm used to two à three litres a day, sometimes
more (max. 5, I think).

>     Ah, yes, I forgot that you were in a choir before. Hopefully you sang
> a happy song about love and unhappiness at YOUR OWN WEDDING! ;>
Indeed. The title was: "I have enough of you!!!" :)))))

> Of course, now I'm rather curious about smartlap (aside from the connotation
> it brings to mind if treated as an English word), since it seems as though
> EVERYTHING is about love and (usually) unhappiness. Country: mah girlfriend
> ran off with a trucker who ran over mah dog. Pop: I met this fantastic girl,
> surely the love of my life, but I'm too nervous to ask her name. Rap:
> [explitives deleted].
Well, smartlappen come closest to the first example you give:
"I gave you the key to my heart, and you threw it away."
"My dad is a drunk and my mother a whore, no wonder we're so devastatingly
poor."
"If you are born as a nickel, you will never be a dime." (or the opposite, I
don't remember).
etc.

They are always sung in Dutch, usually in either 4/4 or 6/8 time. When sung
with more than one voice, one would normally do it in kitchenmaid thirds. They
come closest to German schlagers, I think.
Just Google for "smartlap", "Koos Alberts", "André Hazes", "Manke Nelis", and
you will probably find some sound samples.

> Is smartlap *sung* in cafés by the patrons (like bar
> songs), or is it just played over the speakers as background music?
Rather the latter, I'm afraid.

Jan

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"Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones

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