Re: OT: My wedding pictures

On Tuesday 05 August 2003 09:33 am, Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
>  --- Peter Clark skrzypszy:
> > However, I do have a couple of questions: birthday hat? Headphones?
> > Milk and wine? Is this some strange Dutch custom that I'm not familiar
> > with?
>
> Not at all. The hat is just my maffioso hat, that I wear from time to time.
> I put it on because it was raining.
        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.

> The headphones and the milk were part of a play that friends of ours had
> made for us (I'm a fanatic drinker of milk, ya know...).
> And the wine... well, you have to drink sómething, no?
        Well, I just noticed that at the same time you were getting milk, your lovely
bride was getting wine. Wine, I can understand. Milk... Must have been a
really interesting play! :)
        (I, too, am a fanatic drinker of milk--nothing wrong with that. Go through
two gallons--7.5l--a week.)

> > Who is the little girl?
>
> Our one-and-a-half year old daughter Suzanne. And the two ladies carrying
> her are my mother and my mother-in-law.
        I thought I saw some resemblance, but wasn't sure if she could be a niece as
well.

> > Oh, yes, and how well do you sing?
>
> I used to sing quite well; I was in a semi-professional choir for a while,
> and that was about the best I could achieve with it. On this occasion,
> however, what I sung was not classical, but a Dutch "smartlap" (a term I
> can't explain; it's some sort of Amsterdam café music, usually about love
> and unhappiness).
        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! ;>
        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]. Is smartlap *sung* in cafés by the patrons (like bar
songs), or is it just played over the speakers as background music?
        :Peter

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Oh what a tangled web they weave who try a new word to conceive!

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