The lies! THE LIES! Oh, how could They decieve us all so! :eek:
But–the Truth is Revealed! HERE:
http://zapatopi.net/belgium.html
Their duplicity…
revealed!!!
Weigh in on this History-Making Discovery!
Krispy Original --surely you knew of this? Why did you hide the Truth!!!
They’re waffeling on Belgium?
Well Where did TinTin come from… if not Belgium, hmmm I think I might need to consult some of my Belgian friends. who may not be Belgian after all, they would shoot themselves if they turned out to be French
Hmmm… My high-school French teacher always claimed to be Belgian, but I notice shet taught French, not a mythical langiuage called “Belgian”. What was she hiding?
But…
Next thing you know they’ll be saying that Canada doesn’t exist!! And then where will I be? :eek:
And anyways! What’s all this nonsense about the “Global Left Conspiracy” anyways?! Everyone knows that Capitalism won!!! Who’s using the ghost of the Left as a cover?
So, you’re not an uncle yet, I see… try and pace yourself, dude.
Well, that sure raises some questions
Will the week now be Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday?
Is “Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae” just a left-handed compliment, since, if the Belgians don’t exists, Caesar really meant that everyone in NW Europe was chickenshit?
And worst of all, if the Belgians are just pseudo-Frenchmen, that means that the French are just as adept at making beer as wine. No nation should be that clever.
Anyone else open this hoping he was riffing on Logan’s Run?
<sexy computer voice>
Report Logan-5. Confirm existence of Belgium.
</scv>
<tortured sandman>
There…is…noooo…bellllgiuuummmmm
</ts>
Watch your language- children read this board. The B-word is far too harsh! Before you know it our children will be corrupted, and playing… Krikkit!
Hasn’t anyone ever noticed that the world’s most famous Belgian, Hercule Poirot is an entirely fictitious character? And a charlatan at that? If you have read Curtain, you will discover that he was the murderer, not the detective.
Of course there is.
{Michael Palin}
Miserable fat Belgian bastards.
{/Michael Palin}
Reminds me of something I experienced a few years ago.
I was picking up my dad after a business trip from Germany at S.F. International. His plane was late, and I sat there for a few hours watching, listlessly, as other international flights disembarked. There was this one plane full of folks who all seemed to have creepily similar features – blonde-ish curly hair, a similar build, similar cheekbones, the same light brown/hazel eyes which were too close together, resulting in a vagely retarded look. I thought to myself “they must be all related. a family reunion or something” – nope, just a direct flight from Belgium…
Hmm. So where was I really last summer? And why is this boy always peeing:
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[sup]I thought Jean Claude Van Damm was the most famous Belgian.[/sup][/ul]
Oh, and if Belgium didn’t exist, then where the hell does that exquisite Duvel ale come from?
aaah… Duvel!!
A big Thank you, Steven (not a Doper) for introducing me to Duvel!
Not only Tintin, but the Smurfs come from Belgium (where they were originally Stroumphs, a word they must have figured Americans couldn’t pronounce).
Actually, considering that, I could live in an alternate reality where Smurfs/Stroumphs didn’t exist, if it meant giving up Belgium.
I’ve been there… but only at a train station…
What real country would have Tintin and cartoon characters on its currency…
Although they do have Lambic beer, and something that divine has to come from a real country!
There has to be a Belguim as its a standard unit of measurement of land area, especially in disaster reports.
Things like,
Rainforest the size of Belguim is destroyed every year
or
Police are searching for the suspects in a remote national park the size of Belgium.
or
There is a hole in the ozone layer five times the size of Belgium.
We in the UK used to use the imperial measurement of a “Wales” to describe such things but ever since we went metric we have had to adopt the European way of things.
Personally I preferred the “Wales” because it has nice choirs and is part of our history, I also think that we were short changed by the media as well since a “Wales” seemed bigger, but then it could be those mountains I guess, maybe its all down to inflation.
There is a militant wing of the outlawed terror group Welsh Army of Republican Tabulating Statisticains (W.A.R.T.S) who are mounting a rearguard action to defend the true Welsh standard by making all road signs completely unitelligable to advanced life forms and inflating the odd sheep(at least that’s what one Welsh chappie siad he was doing as he stood remarkably close behind one) but sadly I think that in the interests of EU harmonisation it looks to me like history has discarded this fine old system of measurment.
Count yourself lucky, casdave. Here in the U.S., we have to measure everything in football fields.
It’s like the bleedin’ Dark Ages over here, I tell ya…
yay! Thank you Wonko!