Conference back40::soapbox

    <-- cool topic #

    
    	What's the point of this note?
    
    	I guess .0 would [and will] qualify as an unsolved mystery.
    

    Well,
    I was a bit bored and didn't feel like doing something obvious like
    drinking coffee so I thought:"Why don't get some mysteries solved ?"
    
    I had only 1 problem........
    
    What mysteries !!!!!!

    The mystery is who is the <r.o.> that gave the author of .0 access to a
    keyboard.

    Well, probabely the same that gave you your account !!! ;)

    .5
    
    Right on!!!!!  

    Yugo girl!

    >>Yugo girl!<<
    
    Oh you sweet boy you, giggle giggle giggle!
    
    Wait,  while I just toss the gray curls out of my eyes...giggle,
    giggle, giggle!
    

         Uh, eight replies and no unsolved mysteries. 

    Why is it every time I'm out of the office for more than one day
    something disappears off my desk?

         You must have people like me around, that steal everything not
    nailed down (and some things that are). It's a hard habit to break.
    You're just lucky your desk isn't turned upside-down and all the
    drawers pulled out when you get back. 

    That was you?

         Here's a real mystery - how did some 20 year old street punk with
    a junior high education ever figure out how to start a topic? 

    Is it just a coincidence Ed has posted 69 notes?

    Take it easy on him.  He's a sensitive Netherland-type.  
    
    Holland is cool!!

    I know what else we can put in here the Digital Marketing Plan.

    re. all ED said....
    
    Don't insult me when I've gone home... I'd like to be able to defend
    myself against ev'rything you say...
    
    The 20-year-old-punk....

    re.15
    
    ThanX, sounds like you've been there...;)
    
    Okay everybody take a look at .15 and let it be an example for how
    treat your fellow-DEC'ers.
    
    M.

    So are drugs legal where you are?

    .last
    
    Well, there is a difference in soft- and harddrugs, but they do sell
    Marijuana (SP???) in the so-called coffee-shops... Especially in
    Amsterdam ....
    
    I've never used anything though (I don't even smoke cigarettes), well
    besides an occasional drink that is....
    
    M.

    Is it true that you have to pull your pants down before you can order
    pot at those coffee shops?
    
    What is it with you Dutch and nudity anyway?

    No, you can opt for the "bottomless" cup of coffee and keep your pants
    up.

    Hmmm, maybe I should change this notes' topic......

	Who can tell me the name of the ORIGINAL host for Unsolved Mysteries?

    re:.24
    
    Was it not Robert Stack?
    
    I thought he was pretty wierd!!

    I Dunno......

     Customer: "I'd like 10 grams of the Venezuelan pot please."
    
     Waiter : "Virst! You must pool down yourrr pantzzz please!"

    Hey, We speak dutch not french
    
    Transl. 
    
    Klant: Ik wil graag 10 gram venezuelaanse marijuana (sp.) alstublieft
    Ober : 's Goed, maar doe eerst maar 's je broek naar beneden !!!
    
    So what do you think about that ??!!

    .-2
    
    This is really not neccesary in these kind of bars/shops/caf�s....

    I think the Dutch have the best sense of humour in mainland Europe.
    
    The English are funnier though but that's because they look so silly to
    begin with.
    
    One of my best friends in High School was Dutch. His name was Ilya
    Vreeken. Wonder where he is today.

Vreeken out somewhere, I suppose.

    >Transl. 
    
    >Klant: Ik wil graag 10 gram venezuelaanse marijuana (sp.) alstublieft
    >Ober : 's Goed, maar doe eerst maar 's je broek naar beneden !!!
    
     Hey, my manager's dutch. I'm going to axe him whatchoo just said.

    
    	Good idea, doctah.  What have you got to lose ?
    
    

    That's worth keeping? Rien du tout.

Don't bother; the translation is in .27

    How do we know he accurately translated it? On his sayso? Anybody can
    sling o's and e's together and make it look like dutch. :-)

    .-2
    
    Yeah, might come in handy someday ! :)

    re.36
    
    Don't you believe me ? (Geloof je mij niet ?)
    Dutch isn't just a mixing up of vowels (Nederlands is niet het gewoon
    door elkaar mixen van klinkers)
    
    What kan I do to prove that I'm really writing dutch here ? (Hoe kan ik
    bewijzen dat het echt nederlands is dat ik hier schrijf !!!)
    
    Eikel,
    
    Martijn.

	It was NOT Robert Stack. When it first came out, the show was just
shown as a special, from time to time. But before that this famous actor was
the host. Here is a couple of Clues:


                                San Francisco
                                American Express


	That should tell you who it is right off the bat! (a louisville slugger 
bat)


Glen

    'Twas he of the proboscis.
    
    Karl Malden.

>                     <<< Note 769.38 by JGODCL::POMMEREN >>>
    
>    What kan I do to prove that I'm really writing dutch here ? (Hoe kan ik
>    bewijzen dat het echt nederlands is dat ik hier schrijf !!!)

	Anyone who has a clue about languages can tell you are.

    I still haven't had some mysteries to solve....
    
    It would be a pretty big unsolved mystery itself if I solved one
    offcourse.....

    >What kan I do to prove that I'm really writing dutch here ?
    
     Translate the Gettysburg Address into dutch.

    .38
    
    > What kan I do to prove that I'm really writing dutch here ?
    
    Translate it into Latin:
    
    Quomodo me vere Belgice hic scribere probem?

re: .38   Vowels are klinkers?

    I love the Dutch language.  Very bizarre and quirky.  

    Sorry I didn't reply any sooner but the terminal crashed......
    
    re. last few
    
    I don't speak/write latin
    
    BARBER_A, thanks (if that was a compliment)
    
    What was that address question again ??????
    
    

    re.45 That's right.... Anything else you want to know ???

    >   <<< Note 769.43 by WAHOO::LEVESQUE "and your little dog, too!" >>>
    
    >    >What kan I do to prove that I'm really writing dutch here ?
    
    >     Translate the Gettysburg Address into dutch.
    
    
    What is it ???

    It's a rock fetching exercise. I was teasing you. Forget about it.

    BTW Where are you all from ???

    Oooops Gotta go home now, Cya tomorrow

    Dallas, TX

    .49
    
    The Doctah was teasing you, but here's the Gettysburg Address:
    
        Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this
        continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the
        proposition that all men are created equal.  Now we are engaged in
        a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so
        conceived and so dedicated can long endure.  We are met on a great
        battlefield of that war.  We have come to dedicate a portion of
        that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their
        lives that that nation might live.  It is altogether fitting and
        proper that we should do this.  But in a larger sense, we cannot
        dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground.  The
        brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it
        far above our poor power to add or detract.  The world will little
        note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget
        what they did here.  It is for us the living rather to be dedicated
        here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus
        far so nobly advanced.  It is rather for us to be here dedicated to
        the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we
        take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last
        full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these
        dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall
        have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by
        the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
    
    This address was delivered by Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the
    United States, at the dedication of a cemetery at Gettysburg,
    Pennsylvania, in November of 1863.  The cemetery was to house the
    bodies of soldiers killed in the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863;
    that battle was the turning point of the American Civil War.  Lincoln
    spoke for aobut two minutes, and his speech was at the time dismissed
    as poor when compared to Edward Everett's two-hour oration that
    immediately preceded it.  Who today remembers Everett or what he said?
    
    The Doctah's tease was doubtless inspired by the fact that I am having
    to translate the Address into Latin as the final examination for the
    college summer course I'm taking.

	Karl Maldon is correct! Give Mr. Binder an Apple!

MaldEn

	Why thanks.... Jim! 

    I think I want to work where POMMEREN works
    :)_ss

    Customer: "I'd like a large coffee and a donut please."
    
    Waiter : "Virst! You must pool down yourrr pantzzz please!"
    
    Customer: "Hey wait a minute! I thought that was only if I order pot!"
    
    Waiter : "Zzzorry, vorze of hebbit."

         One of my cousins visited Amsterdam and said it was the filthiest,
    most unpleasant place she had ever been in her life. The people were
    unbelievably rude to Americans. The Dutch or whatever they are tourists
    who come here are usually unpleasant as well. I know, I had to deal
    with people from all over the world at my last job. 

    Racist Pig!

    Customer: "Would you like to come back to my hotel room?"
    
    Waiter: "If you prrromitz to pool down yourrr pantzz, I vill be nekket
    	     und rrready in a jiffy!"

         re. ss::
    
         What, am I going to get slammed by the Dutch Anti-Defamation
    League? I'll just add them to the list. 

    Watch it, they might try and clog your arteries. It can be fatal.

    I hear they plan to drop a large dike on him.

    dam shame.

    a load of bulwarks if you ask me.

         Ha, ha! But once you've been in conflict with the Church of Latter
    Day Saints, the Dutch don't seem all that scary. 

    You've never eaten in a Dutch restaurant if you say that.

         No, and as a matter of fact I've never even heard of a Dutch
    restaurant. There's probably a good reason why. 

        Customer: "I'll have one of those funny looking poopsicles please."

    Waiter: "I am nekket und yuo hef zaid nuzzing abowt it!"

    Customer: "Well, the waiter a the Reefer Bistro down the street kind
    	       showed me the ropes if you will. And besides, pretty much
    	       everybody around here is naked. Even tourists!"

    Waiter: "Vell, it is ower way of making everyone feel welcomen. Please
    	     fondule my buttocks und you vill receive a complimentary
    	     syringe."
    
    Customer: "This is a silly place."

         BWAAAAAA-HA-HAAAAAA!!! This string is truly hilarious! But the
    DADL will be on your case, too! Don't stand next to any windmills until
    this all blows over. 

    Good morning (Goedemorgen),
    
    I'm back (Ik ben terug),
    
    It's nice to find so many replies and not even find 1 unsolved
    mystery. (Het is fijn om zo veel antwoorden te krijgen zonder dat er
    een onopgeloste zaak tussen zit).
    
    It is also nice to find that I wasn't insulted by anybody with more
    that half a wit. (Het is ook fijn om niet beledigd te zijn door iemand
    die ze wel allemaal op een rijtje heeft)
    
    BTW If you ever go to Amsterdam, you should know where to go and don't
    just wander around, there are a lot of nice place if you know where to
    look for them. (Als je naar Amsterdam wilt gaan, moet je niet vergeten
    naar de Wallen te gaan en het Leidseplein).
    
    BTW 2 Have you already verified my dutch sentences with that dutch
    manager of yours ???
    
    Well, CYA'll later....
    
    M.

re .60:

I was in Amsterdam in 1973, at the height of the hippie era.  I remember the
people as being very pleasant, and the city as being relatively clean.

    re.75
    
    Did you perhaps have long hair, a beard and pink sunglasses ?????
    
    M.

I was in Amsterdam in 1994, at the height of the yuppie era.  I remember the
people as being very pleasant, and the city as being relatively clean.

I wasn't a hippie.  In fact, I never even set foot in Vondel Park.
I just mentioned the hippie era to emphasize that the city was clean.

    I am in Amsterdam for at least once in three weeks to go out in the
    weekend. I usually don't remember anything at all
    
    M.

    .78
    
    Okay, you should visit Amsterdam again and see if it has changed...
    
    BTW the Vondelpark is available to public now (, but I wouldn't want to
    go there anyway)
    
    M.

    If you'd ventured into the seamier parts of town, you'd find that
    clean friendly atmosphere was just a thin vermeer.

>   <<< Note 769.78 by NOTIME::SACKS "Gerald Sacks ZKO2-3/N30 DTN:381-2085" >>>

>I wasn't a hippie.

  <totally dumbfounded expression>

If you wander into a deli, you could order a fat Rubens.

    > If you'd ventured into the seamier parts of town, you'd find that
    > clean friendly atmosphere was just a thin vermeer.
    
    Well, one word of advise....
    
    avoid the seamier parts of town !!!, I think every big city has got
    that problem, not just Amsterdam or Utrecht..

    <cavalier laughter>

Van Gogh, girl.



Too bad it doesn't work with the Dutch pronunciation.

    Advise: Go to Amsterdam, watch out for the tram....
    
    Advise: Go to Amsterdam, watch out for beautifull girls
    
    (They're expensive)
    
    Advise: Go to Amsterdam, Don't forget to tip the bouncer
    
    (Unless you're well insured)
    

>   <<< Note 769.83 by NOTIME::SACKS "Gerald Sacks ZKO2-3/N30 DTN:381-2085" >>>

>If you wander into a deli, you could order a fat Rubens.

	Nice thing to have van Rijn a pickle would be good with
	it too.

    and don't drink de Hooch.

    BTW, Did I already mention that tomorrow is my last day at DEC ???

    re: .90
    
    Where are you going from here then?
    
    Stevo

re .86

Does much of anything, except spitting, work with Dutch pronunciation?

  John Covert Insults the Dutch Language
  Phlegm at 11.

    re.91
    
    I'll be going back to college after a well-deserved vacation....

    I`ve been to Amsterdam about 5 times and think it`s a great place.
    
    A bit seedy maybe,but most people are friendly and it`s all very laid
    back.
    
    Last time I went,we couldn`t get a hotel for the night (everywhere was
    full),so we had to walk the streets all night. A sauna said we could
    sleep there,but only 2 at a time. Oooh er,missus. 
    
    

    > Last time I went,we couldn`t get a hotel for the night (everywhere
    > was full),so we had to walk the streets all night. A sauna said we
    > could sleep there,but only 2 at a time. Oooh er,missus.
    
Kinda dangerous don't you think.....
    
    Was it a dutch holiday or something, normally you should be able to get
    a room for the night...
    
    M.
    

    well,
    going home now,
    
    Cya tomorrow
    
    M.

    bye Pommy Baby!

I visited Amsterdam around 1961 or so. We thought it was way cool that
our ship (USS BOSTON) was something like fourteen miles inland. 

We visited art museums and the Amstel brewery, rode canal boats,
windowshopped on Canal Street ;^) and so forth. Thought it was a clean
city but grossly overpopulated with bicycles. Found the open public
bathrooms along the sidewalks interesting. Also found the mirrors
interesting.  People living in second-floor apartments have mirrors (like
car mirrors) afixed to the outside of the house, so they can watch the
sidewalks in both directions without getting out of their chairs.

We were not impressed by the restaurant food.

Our crew gave the Dutch Red Cross about 500 pints of blood while we were
there. I had a pretty, delft-blue-eyed blonde nurse hold my hand the
whole time I was leaking blood into the container. I probably would have
stayed right there holding her hand until I was a corpse. There was a
communications problem, though. I didn't know that vowels were klinkers
back then, and she couldn't understand a word I said.

Art

 

    huh??

    Good story....(esp. the window shopping part)

    Good Morning,
    
    I'm back.... I justed picked up some 'vlaai' and everybody is happy to
    see me leaving today...
    
    Martijn.

    
    Before you go, who sang the song:
    
     A mouse lived in a windmill in Old Amsterdam
     A windmill with mice in is hardly surprising
     He sang every morning "How lucky I am"
     To be living in a Windmill in Old Amsterdam.
    
    I'm pretty sure it wasn't Golden Earring.

    .103
    
    I dunno, never heard it..... (Doesn't look like a Golden Earring
    songtext to me, more Rob de Nijs)....
    
    M.

    
    	RE: .103
    
    	I'd be VERY surprised to hear that Golden Earring sang that,
    	after hearing "Radar Love" and "Twilight Zone".
    

    <consults AHD crap dictionary for spelling of "phasceshus">

    It's a crap dictionary, "phasceshus" isn't in it.

    Guess I'll have to ask Oph then.

    Don't know if he recorded it, or was the first to sing it
    but I remember Ronnie Carroll (approx spelling) singing it
    on some crappy variety show on BBC yonks back.

    Waiter: "Vere didt evreee one go? I em nekket und high, now vut do I do?"

    Enough Dutch already!

    .103 Max Bygraves.

    Bummer. I had forgotten Max Bygraves and my life was that much
    happier as result.  Now I have to remember him again and suffer the
    misery. Why, oh why did I ask that question?  Oh cruel fate!
    

    .113
    
    I ditto everything said by .113.  My failing memory isn't all
    a minus, some of it's a plus.  Ohhhh....flash backs to the
    Sooty and Sweep show.  Oh No! pass the asprin.

    I wonder how Karen is doing?

    I'm just fine. I had a great weekend, i'm still tired.
    
    Karem.

    How was the quasi-birthday party?

    
    
    
    Hi 'pril,
    
    Too many that were much to young(16,17). I've spend most of the
    evening as a doorman for a bunch of students that were investegating
    what kind of people visit houseparties, what drugs they use, how much,
    etc. It was real funny to have the authorithy to refuse people or to
    be kind and let them sit without a ticket. You needed a ticket if you
    want to enter 'our' area. People were really gratefull if I let them 
    pass. 
    It was a long time ago I was on a big party and this was the last time.
    I'm getting old; from this day I'll only go to 'small' parties, people
    there are more my age.
    
    Karem