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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: Bill D Date: 12 Jun 99 - 11:58 PM LEJ...tsk...tastes DO differ.. Celis Grand Cru is among my favorite beers..and my wife, Ferrara, and occasional poster Lorraine LOVE it!.It is not your usual flavor..(has spices & such) (I called Celis once to assure myself that they keep things fresh..Pierre Celis himself assured me..) |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: The Shambles Date: 13 Jun 99 - 03:32 AM Catspaw. You can keep your Percherons, just give me a Suffolk Punch. Not that I want to get too HEAVY here. |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: catspaw49 Date: 13 Jun 99 - 10:56 AM Good line Sham..........and pathetically enough I can't come up with a funny line about Clydedales. I guess it's true, I can't be funny all the time. Self realization makes me sadder, bud wizer. Sorry, that one is stinking up the whole joint......... catspaw |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: Jeri Date: 13 Jun 99 - 10:59 AM Horsefeathers, for Shire. I prefer draft beer. |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: catspaw49 Date: 13 Jun 99 - 11:10 AM Ah Jeri....to lower yourself to such a level........I'm so dissappointed, but to each their own, but remember this quote: "Can, bottle, or draft..You can have it your way."...Ann Hiser catspaw |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: Rick Fielding Date: 13 Jun 99 - 01:03 PM Catspaw! I'm worried about you. You've started EXPLAINING your jokes! Just keep throwing them out there and be confident that "some" will understand you...... |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: Jeri Date: 13 Jun 99 - 02:05 PM I think I understood his mane point. Anyway, it isn't possible to harness Catspaw's wit. I don't think anyone got my yoke, I fetlock the smiley face. Sorry you got dregged into this, Rick. I'll just be running off to hide under the bed for a while.
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: Lonesome EJ Date: 13 Jun 99 - 02:21 PM Shades of the "Golf Course Bird" Thread. All this horsing around is trampling good taste underfoot.It behooves you all to stop. |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: Rick Fielding Date: 13 Jun 99 - 06:49 PM Jeri, you're so stable, there is no need to harness your wit. With unbridled respect. rick |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: catspaw49 Date: 13 Jun 99 - 07:45 PM Hay Rick, I didn't realize I was explaining, perhaps just trying a bit more stablization. Please don't call me on this action before the secretariat as I have already affirmed my intentions and issue this post as a citation to the rest of you for tolerating me, here at Mudcat. Hopefully this will all whirlaway as a slew of tripe. I mean, we might as well be pleasant instead of ruffians. As you are the "pickin" leader, so to speak, I will take your advice as I am always in your dust Commander. catspaw |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: The Shambles Date: 13 Jun 99 - 07:53 PM Rick I didn't mean Big Joe Williams was Belgian.... Or was he? |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: Banjer Date: 13 Jun 99 - 08:16 PM Well, talk about getting all the scoop right from the horses mouth!!! When did they start putting tails where their nostrils ought to be? |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: Rick Fielding Date: 14 Jun 99 - 12:17 AM Sham, that was Big Joe Walloons! Catspaw, something horrid just happened. I was trying to make a pun from Nashua and Swaps, and I just realized..I'm getting old!! |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: catspaw49 Date: 14 Jun 99 - 01:16 AM Bummer ain't it? I was trying to work in something re: the homosexual/lesbian thread and housing so I could use Chateaugay ('63?) but I felt ancient enough with the Citation and Whirlaway refs (48 & 47???). Well, just buck up there old man and show great bravery in using the wit and cunning which age has afforded, you Gallant Fox you. (I'm stretchin' here). catspaw |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: Steve Parkes Date: 14 Jun 99 - 05:19 AM Hello Jo! What's a nice girl like you doing in a thread like this? I rather like the greeny-bluey thing myself, but if you check out the HTML (right-click on the page then select VIEW SOURCE), you'll see it says color=red. I don't understand all this clever stuff, myself. Glad you're having a good time, by the way; how much trouble are you having spelling "Jo"? By the way, did you know that chips (with/without fish) is your actual Belgian take-away? Steve x |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: Steve Parkes Date: 14 Jun 99 - 05:20 AM Two "by-the-ways" ... time I had a lie down! |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: LEJ Date: 14 Jun 99 - 05:23 PM LOL Damn that was a good-un Banjer! PS The last one out of the thread has to clean up the mess. LEJ |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: PJ Date: 14 Jun 99 - 06:22 PM khatspaugh-- Your unfettered wit shows you're a winner who knows his place. As a mudder you give no quarter when it comes to puns. You're a real stud who always pulls his weight, and most of the time I must admit your humor is right on track. However, I worry that if you keep lunging at the off side of these jokes, the folks in philly may not like the tack you're taking and your reputation will suffer. This could cost you dearly, you could end up in hock, get depressed and just foal apart. I would hate to see that happen. Though it's clear you don't need anyone's help to kick up your heels, I humbly offer my support with puns (and I'm not just saying that to curry your favor). Draw nigh, catspaw- we'd make a great team! Don't stall, though, hurry and respond because my offer won't last furlong... PJ |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: catspaw49 Date: 14 Jun 99 - 06:41 PM PJ--------I can tell you're not really trying to stirrup anything with your kind but withering remarks. Alas we must all be aware of our place in the show. So if I get stuck, I'll lunge at your offer. But when you have suggestions hold your hands high. No sense mucking about. It can be annoying having good puns and not being able to use them, kinda' like a boil that won't heal...So don't hold those chestnuts at bay or that sorrel never clear up. Christ, I can't take it anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! catspaw(talk about a thread blown all to hell........) |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: Fadac Date: 14 Jun 99 - 06:46 PM Egad, That is the crupper of humor. However, we'll just put the bit in our teath, and trot on. For someones edification, you use the scoop, near the end of the horse with the tail. Not to worry, it's just grass and water, with a bit of corn and apples from time to time. -Fadac, Did I write that? |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: Dave Swan Date: 14 Jun 99 - 07:03 PM This all began when Steve said " In the U.K. we have a great party game called name ten famous Belgians" and we bought it. Swallowed that pretty treble hook with the imitation jiggling pork rind tadpole and ford fender right up to the leader, sinker and all. Played the game. He's got to be laughing himself silly. |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: catspaw49 Date: 14 Jun 99 - 07:03 PM You done good there Fadac, so don't be too sulky about it. You're simply a natural worrier and pacer. If it feels good though, you can trot out some more. catspaw |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: Jo Taylor Date: 14 Jun 99 - 08:34 PM Steve - ha! I think we're quits - the chips thing was my way of a subtle joke... It's the first thing people here mention about Belgians... French people have Belgian jokes, England has Irish jokes, Normans have Breton jokes (N.O.I!! I'm fairly ethnically diverse myself). By the way (!) I had corrected the spelling before pushing the button - it wasn't the Jo bit that was causing the trouble. Kicking the traces - Jo x |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: Roger the zimmer Date: 15 Jun 99 - 09:58 AM I'm surprised no-one mentioned Belgian's most famous Flemish folk group, their answer to Peter, Paul and Mary (or Peter Paul & Rubens as they call them over there): Hertz van Rental and his wife Avis and her brother Kenning van Hire.[who can forget "Two Lips from Rotterdam"; "Up in a balloon with a Walloon"; "Son of a barge" and many other hits] Sorry,Steve. I held out for a few days! I compiled a pub quiz round on famous Belgians once and managed to find enough for two rounds but a lot were from before the modern state. |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: Rick Fielding Date: 15 Jun 99 - 11:24 AM Roger, were you in Pub Quiz? I did it for three years and experienced great triumphs and collossal humiliation. Upon answering the question: "who was Mary Ann Evans?" I received two beers, an Adidas bag, and a used junior Golf trophy with ny name written on it in magic marker stating I was "high scorer in finals '92." Upon missing the name of Dick Turpin's Horse (I said:....uhhh, Black Beauty?) I completed an 0 for 10 round and received dirty looks from my team-mates! Thank God I got a radio show and haven't had to embarrass myself anymore. |
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Subject: Never mind the Belgians! From: Steve Parkes Date: 15 Jun 99 - 11:28 AM Hey, Jo! (I'm gonna write a song with that name!) A red kiss - I can't beat that ... unless ... there's always the good ol' besso - that's a Spanish kiss .. it's like a French kiss only |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: Steve Parkes Date: 15 Jun 99 - 11:38 AM Sorry Jo - had to go and take a cold shower. A German-speaking friend of mine told me years ago that the Germans tell Östfrieslander (Östfrieslandischer? No idea) jokes, and gave me this example: Q: Why did the tide go out? A: Because it saw the Östfrieslanders arriving for their holidays! Who says the Germans have no sense of humour? Well, me for one ... Steve b |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: Roger the zimmer Date: 15 Jun 99 - 11:55 AM Rick, I compiled an annual Christmas Quiz held in various London pubs over the years for a professional group I was on the Committee of. I retired as the oldest inhabitant a couple of years ago when I realised I'd done 20 years on the committee and 10 annual quizzes! There were youngsters coming along who have carried it on. I tried "jazz/blues nicknames" for one round one year (Wingy Manone etc), only to find one team had a fan like me)who got them all right! Then there was the year when the pub muzak (just before it was turned off for us to start) played a tune that answered one of the questions...Since then I've helped She-who-must-be-obeyed, who is a Churchwarden, with a quiz for the local church social but otherwise hung up my gavel. As my responses to threads amply demonstrate, I realised I knew less about the things I thought I knew something about than I thought I did! Roger |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: Fadac Date: 15 Jun 99 - 12:29 PM A joke told to be by a Norwegian, about an Englishman off the coast of Germany. It goes like this. Englishman on yacht: Help, Help, I'm Sinking!!!! No answer Englishman again, a bit more alarmed: Help! I'm sinking, Does anyone one hear me? German (Thick accent): Ya, Vee hear you, Vat are you sinking about? The Norwegian laughed to tears telling me this joke. No Belgians were involved. -Fadac |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: The Shambles Date: 15 Jun 99 - 01:30 PM Can I phone a friend? |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: catspaw49 Date: 15 Jun 99 - 02:42 PM Shamb, I seem to get the idea that perhaps, like me you are noticing a THIRD form of Mudcat thread creep. I think this one might best be called "Sybil Creep" in as much as the original thread may still exist, but there are four or five others running concurrently and they seem to be paying no attention to the rest. So that gives us: 1) Standard Creep 2) Thread Blown All to Hell and 3) Sybil Creep. catspaw |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: Jo Taylor Date: 15 Jun 99 - 07:48 PM Oh Steve - a blue besso - ooh. French 'kiss' = baiser which can also mean something far more, er,... Perhaps it's the same root. Ahem. Whilst in linguistic mode (or something)capote anglaise is an interesting translation - or does that belong on Catpaw's thread of a while back? A Belgian was going to Calais for his holidays but after he'd crossed the border into France he started seeing signs saying 'Pas de Calais' so he went back home... Well, you started it. Jo, who has not baiser'd any Frenchmen (lately) - though they do say it's a great way to learn a language, wonder if Black Country counts? X |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: Peter T. Date: 16 Jun 99 - 09:36 AM This has gone way beyond thread creep, more like pulling on a loose thread of a Hong Kong suit, and being left with a handkerchief. Or it has mutated into the realms superstring theory (the 13+ dimensional universe beloved of current cosmological theory). Yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: Rick Fielding Date: 16 Jun 99 - 09:49 AM Peter, I was wondering how long it would take for the old superstring theory to come up. Looking forward to the discussion. |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: Peter T. Date: 16 Jun 99 - 10:00 AM Hey, if you can't be pretentious in a thread about Belgians and alleged horse puns, what hope is there for wasted intellect? Yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: Steve Parkes Date: 16 Jun 99 - 12:37 PM Jo, Ah'd be oppy ter show yo, ma wench, if yo'd just come across! Capote anglaise - that explains a joke I heard at school 32 years ago - thanks! Steve y (comes after x) |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: catspaw49 Date: 16 Jun 99 - 01:22 PM Maybe we combine the two: Sybil Superstring Thread Creep, because this one is totally unbelievable!!!! catspaw |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: The Shambles Date: 16 Jun 99 - 01:25 PM Well, if you ask a silly question----- |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: Steve Parkes Date: 17 Jun 99 - 03:54 AM I don't now why superstringers need 13 dimensions; if 10 was good enough for Einstein, it's good enough for me! Steve, BA (Open) |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: catspaw49 Date: 17 Jun 99 - 09:42 AM I just went back and tried to count the topics covered in this thread..............Gave up............We need to log this one! Gotta' be a record. catspaw |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: Fergus Date: 17 Jun 99 - 10:14 AM Benoît Mandelbrot (of fractal fame) is Belgian, isn't he? |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: Fadac Date: 17 Jun 99 - 10:58 AM Speaking of records. Does anybody make vinel any more? I put a record on the other day, and enjoyed every scratch. There is a great movie that came out of Canada, called Harmony Cats. The story is about this high and mighty vilon (sp? fiddle) player. The ocherasta went broke, so this guy had to take a job playing base guitar in a country and western band. Great movie, the most memorable part is when the band leader is unhappy with our hero. He tells him, "You remeber the old records, you could hear the scratches, well in my band, you can almost hear those scratches. Don't take them out of my band." It's the little mistakes, that make things human. -Fadac BTW this make a bizilion different topics for this thread. No problem, just store it in a Tardis. -F |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: Jo Taylor Date: 17 Jun 99 - 07:45 PM Steve - Z Jo |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: snevhead (inactive) Date: 28 Jun 99 - 11:22 AM I believe Charles Aznavour was Bleggian. Then again, there's always the three members of Technotronics. |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: Steve Parkes Date: 28 Jun 99 - 11:29 AM I believe he's Bleggian too, although I think he comes from Belgium! |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: The_one_and_only_Dai Date: 28 Jun 99 - 11:54 AM I was gravely disappointed to fond out yesterday that Adolph Sax, author of the saxophone (amongst other things, apparently) was also a Bleggian from Belgium. |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: The_one_and_only_Dai Date: 28 Jun 99 - 11:54 AM I was gravely disappointed to find out yesterday that Adolph Sax, author of the saxophone (amongst other things, apparently) was also a Bleggian from Belgium. |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: Steve Parkes Date: 29 Jun 99 - 03:37 AM Wow - he was from Bleggian twice! Did he write any other instruments? |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: The_one_and_only_Dai Date: 29 Jun 99 - 05:00 AM Steve:- From Webster's Dictionary:
Main Entry: 1au·thor |
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Subject: RE: Name ten famous Belgians! From: Steve Parkes Date: 29 Jun 99 - 07:42 AM Thanks for learning me that! |
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