Re: CHAT: "have a nice day"

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 :))) .

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