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Re: CHAT: "have a nice day"

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Monday, March 6, 2000, 8:46
At 18:40 03/03/00 -0500, you wrote:
>And Rosta wrote: > >> In British humorous cliche, Belgium is the paradigm example of the place >> nothing and noone remarkable comes from, except for chips eaten with >> mayo. > >A disgusting habit, indeed. Chips were meant by God to be eaten with >salt, and nothing else. >
Why? I ate chips with mayo even before I went to the Netherlands... (but if the Belgian mayo is like the Dutch Frietsaus - a kind of sweet mayonnaise, by French standards - then I understand the "disgusting" feeling)
>I think it was Ursula LeGuin who pointed out that the Bronte sisters >wrote all of their way-out romantic fictions during a life of
never-going-anywhere:
>except for one three-week vacation. Where? In Brussels, Most Boring >City In Europe. >
Yes, but I think that it is in Belgium that you find the lowest prices for ground and houses. It's near enough to France and the Netherlands to be not that boring :))) . Christophe Grandsire |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G. "Reality is just another point of view." homepage : http://rainbow.conlang.org (ou : http://www.bde.espci.fr/homepages/Christophe.Grandsire/index.html)