If it's Tuesday, this must be Belgium

[Orson]

This is what happens when you settle a border dispute over a few beers

 

Baarle-Nassau/Baarle-Hertog

[Admin Jaap]

Talk about ghetto's...

[helicopterjim R.I.P.]

each house is deemed to pay taxes in the country where its front door is located

 

I would get rid of the doors and enter through the chimney. Voila! No taxes!!

[JoeV11]

I thought gerrymandering of political districts was bad, this is ridiculous~ LOL Joe

[jihem]

Jaap, you can have Limburg, it's fine by me

 

 

now, what they're trying to do is forbid to open coffee shops too close to the border...

[Guest ratchethack]

Jaap, you can have Limburg, it's fine by me

Gerrymandering indeed.....

 

Hey Jaap -- It looks to me like Belgium got the high ground and Holland got all the swamps and polders. . .

[Admin Jaap]

Hey Jaap -- It looks to me like Belgium got the high ground and Holland got all the swamps and polders. . .

Yep, but they got a big language problem, which will tear the country in two in the foreseeable future. To be honest, I'd rather have wet feet...

[Van]

Yep, but they got a big language problem, which will tear the country in two in the foreseeable future. To be honest, I'd rather have wet feet...

 

Wet feet?

you want wet feet?

we here in B.C. have webbed feet from so much bloody rain and wet !!

Cheers

Van

[Guest ratchethack]

Van, you gotta understand that in Holland, not only do they have water coming DOWN, but every dike-jumper worth his wooden shoes is born with a knee-jerk reflex to fight water coming UP!

 

NOTE: I have some "license" to talk about dike-jumpers, 'cause I ARE one, (5th gen. US born & raised).

[helicopterjim R.I.P.]

 

NOTE: I have license to talk about dike-jumpers, 'cause I ARE one, (5th gen. US born & raised).

 

What kind of cheese do you make?

[Guest ratchethack]

What kind of cheese do you make?

Ve haf no cheesmakers. Only dike-jumpers from ze Zuider Zee.

[helicopterjim R.I.P.]

Ahhh! I was referring to a quote by Nicolai hel but perhaps it doesn't apply to 5th generation Dutch.

 

But even I am forced to admit that they [the French] are a ridiculous people, just as one must confess that the British are bungling, the Italians incompetent, the Americans neurotic, the Germans romantically savage, the Arabs vicious, the Russians barbaric, and the Dutch make cheese.

 

Nicolai Hel in the novel Shibumi by Lee Trevanian

[antonio carroccio]

NOTE: I have some "license" to talk about dike-jumpers, 'cause I ARE one, (5th gen. US born & raised).

There is only one and the real ONE "dike-jumper" and that's Jaap!

[Admin Jaap]

And I'm proud of it!

 

[helicopterjim R.I.P.]

There is only one and the real ONE "dike-jumper" and that's Jaap!

 

...... and here I thought he was a "dike hiking tulip stomper"!!! Ahhh yes! I remember the photo's of the 'dike incident'!!

 

 

 

 

 

... and his birthday is coming up soon!!!