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Re: Who James Isn't (was:Re: New Castle Sucks (so far...)
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On Sun, 2 Jan 2000 07:34:03 GMT, Mr L F Braun <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu>
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> Jasper Janssen wrote:
> > What about the childrens' balloons from one of those "whose gets the
> > farthest when the ticket is returned" which were detected as incoming
> > nukes by the Russian aged and failing early-warning system a few
> > months/years back?
>
> I forgot about those! Imagine being the third-grader who started WWIII...
And they started singing: Whoa-hoa, this here Anakin guy,
maybe....<scratch> <muffle> <mike feedback> Oops. I-uh.. wrong song.
Let's try this again, shall we..
One two, three four!
Hast du etwas Zeit für mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich
Von neunundneunzig Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Denkst du vielleicht gerad an mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich
Von neunundneunzig Luftballons
Und daß sowas von sowas kommt
Neunundneunzig Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Hielt Man für Ufos aus dem All
Darum schickte ein General
'Ne Fliegerstaffel hinterher
Alarm zu geben, wenn's so wär
Dabei war'n da am Horizont
Nur neunundneuzig Luftballons
Neunundneunzig Düsenflieger
Jeder war ein großer Krieger
Hielten sich für Captain Kirk
Das gab ein großes Feuerwerk
Die Nachbarn haben nichts gerafft
Und fühlten sich gleich angemacht
Dabei schoß man am Horizont
Auf neunundneunzig Luftballons
Neunundneunzig Kriegsminister
Streichholz und Benzinkanister
Hielten sich für schlaue Leute
Witterten schon fette Beute
Riefen: Krieg und wollten Macht
Man, wer hätte das gedacht
Daß es einmal so weit kommt
Wegen neunundneunzig Luftballons
Wegen neunundneunzig Luftballons
Neunundneunzig Luftballons
Neunundneunzig Jahre Krieg
Ließen keinen Platz für Sieger
Kriegsminister gibt's nicht mehr
Und auch keinen Düsenflieger
Heute zieh' ich meine Runden
Sah' die Welt in Trümmern liegen
Hab 'nen Luftballon gefunden
Denk an dich und laß ihn fliegen...
<fadeout> Thank you, thankyaverramuts.
> > Yup. Our $100 worth was pretty spectacular, if I do say so myself.
> > We'd bought a few _large_ ground-standing pots.
>
> In Michigan, if it flies or explodes, it's illegal. Feh.
In the Netherlands, fireworks may only be sold on the 29, 30, 31st,
under strict rules as to venue and size_of(firework), and they may
only be used between 24:00 and 1:00 on New Years' Day.
> Counting national assets is pretty anachronistic. Most Dutch investment is highly
> transnational--I don't think it shows up as "Dutch" for the purposes of GNP. I'll
> have to dig out the citations, but I believe there's a huge Dutch interest in GE,
> Citibank, and a few other huge US conglomerates--they're the largest single foreign
> investment bloc in the US, above the British and far, far, *far* above the Japanese.
> I mentioned Barings because it was the most visible recent sign of that ascendancy.
Yeah, Fortis, ING, and a few of the others have been going on a bit of
a buying spree the past decade. Now that I think about it, it's always
"$DUTCH_VBC purchases $FOREIGN_VBC", never the other way 'round.
> > Are you coming as an exchange student or as a teacher? What subject?
>
> I'm a historian--I'm not teaching, but rather using Leiden as a base for my research
> trips into Germany, the UK, and Amsterdam. I study Southern Africa, after all. :)
Ah, right. Now, I can see the UK and Amsterdam for research on SA -
but Germany? I didn't know they had anything to do with it.
> Technically I'm an exchange student, but I'm so far post-grad I'm almost faculty.
> It's really quite weird.
Oh, one of those. ;)
> > Anyway, mail me sometime, we'll set up a night at the appropriate pub.
>
> Sounds good--I'll need to figure out what's good out there, because last summer I
> didn't get into the pubs much (my girlfriend and I were living in a very nice 18th-C.
> home on the canals and we chose to cook for ourselves).
>
> What do you do there in .nl?
To tell the truth, I don't go out very much either. I could introduce
you to my friends over in Delft, that's close to Leiden and has a
night-train connection.
Other than that, I know some, but not much, stuff around here, ie
Utrecht, and a bit over in Rotterdam.
If you want, I can direct you to the big expensive strip/dance joint
over in Rotterdam, but you'd have to do that one alone...
I enjoy more the sort of pub where you can shoot some pool, throw some
darts, and do it all while enjoying a nice single malt.
Jasper
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