Nightly News....

[tailboom]

"Big light in sky slated to appear in east"

Trivia ?? time...

What 60's comedy troupe had an album on which you would hear that line...??....

...Hizzoner P. Wigley Esq. P.C.
:-lol http://www.flightsim.com/dcforum/Use...c5238f33e0.jpg :-lol
Meet 'Infidelicus Extraordinarus'...aka...Hizzoner

[robbie1472]

I have no idea, there weren't too many 60's comedy troupes that were famous enough to be remembered 40 years later. Monty Python?

[mikeymcc]

'boom (if I may use the familiar),

I am clueless as to who it is, but instead of telling us right off, how about slowly feeding us some more of their material, one shiny nugget at a time?

Mike McCarthy

[jedster1]

IT'S!!.............


and now for something completely different...... jed

[mikeymcc]

The following is a joke:

And speaking of " 'boom " ...

I have a question for our friends in the Netherlands, or any other place where Dutch is spoken ...

What would T'Boom mean? Is the meaning printable?

Mike
(I can actually pronouce "Scheveningen"!)
(The Dutch way, I mean, not the German way.)
(And what do you make of the USA song title of 50 year ago, "Sh'Boom"?)
McCarthy

[MartijnPleines]

<I have a question for our friends in the Netherlands, or any other place where Dutch is spoken ...

What would T'Boom mean? Is the meaning printable?>
Hey, I don't know about tailboom, but Jedster (and Monty Python) is talking about another great boom, 'De Lariks'!

Talking of pythons, how about the Boomslang?

Shalalalala...

That's for the babyboomers among us!

[jedster1]

LMAO!!!


fly inverted, the view is better!!.............. jed

[mikeymcc]

Martin,

"Boomslang" I think I know (GREAT pun by the way, I see three meanings, one of which would be rendered in German as "schwantz") but you're going to have to translate "DeLanks" for me.

Still, I knew I was making progress when, at a computer show in Amsterdam, I was trying to get a door open so we could bring a machine in. It was quite late at night and the guard said (forgive my spelling)

"Alle die turgangen sein geslauten."

And I understood him without having to translate in my mind. It was such a surprise to me that the guard's phrase has stayed with me these 25 years later.

I absolutely LOVE the Netherlands. The people are tough and brash and bold, and no job is too big. (Just like the USA, whose character they helped to mold.)

Now stay with me, I'm getting to something ...

I HAD to say "Scheveningen" correctly because I was giving a talk there to a handful of customers over a lunch, which I did in a mixture of English ((which of course they all spoke very well)) and "MikeyDutch" -- an early attempt of mine at speaking the language, something I am never afrad to try.

They appreciated the effort, laughed at the fractured Dutch, I laughed with them, they corrected me, and we all had a great time. They also, after lunch, took me to a bookstore where I bought a 200-page "Dutch In Fifteen Lessons" book.

Stay with me, we're almost there.

Now ... After the Netherlands it was on to Copenhagen and then home, which was suburban Boston ... Except that while in Scheveningen I got a call ordering me not to come home but instead to go to Seattle.

I was only on the continent three days that trip. Upon arrival in Seattle the customs agent asked me why I wasn't going to Boston, why the trip was only three days, what had I been doing, blah blah blah. Not satisified my answers, he started searching my luggage. He searched one of two bags and then opened my briefcase -- and there was the 200-page "Dutch/15" book, lying open. He closed everything up and said "You can go now."

"Thanks" I said, "but why stop there?"

"Because nobody but business people take the trouble to learn Dutch. You are who you say you are, and would you please go now, there are others in line."

Mike
(But don't take offence, it means the Dutch are great business people, that others need to learn THEIR language.)
McCarthy

[MartijnPleines]

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Nov-22-02 AT 03:22AM (EST)[/font][p]Hi Mike, haven't been around the OM forum for a couple of days so here's a late answer:

De Lariks, if you know your Monty Python, is Something Completely Different...
It IS a boom, of course.

I must say "Alle die turgangen sein geslauten." sounds more as if the guard was trying to speak German though...proper language for a guard I suppose ;-) (ducks beneath the desk, dons flame-proof jacket, shouts Verzeihung! Verzeihung!)

I'm surprised and glad you got off so lightly at customs with your Dutch dictionary-I would have thought a thorough search for certain substances might have been the result!

Martijn (Verzeihung!) Pleines

[mikeymcc]

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[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Nov-22-02 AT 05:10 AM (EST)[/font]

Martin,

(I was wondering where this bit had gone. I've been looking for days and days.)

I do apologize for my stupidity. Yes, I know what a boom is though, frankly, it took your post to revive the word. (Don't get old if you can reasonably avoid it.)

I read L-a-N-k-s and not L-a-R-k-s. Of course I remember The Larch. Could anyone forget? Nevertheless, "DeLanks" sounds like a perfectly reasonable Dutch name. Who was he? And what does his name mean?

(This, folks, is known as the "set-up". If Martin would like to come out and play, he has only to do it.)

... (You know the outcome by now. I do not as I am still writing this.)

Now ... I did at the time speak German too so let's do a little linguistic analysis of your offered alternative as to what the guard was saying (which I understood as "All the exits are locked." ... ... Wait a minute ... ...)

... ... Folks, Martin has just made the most inCREDible joke!
He has accused me of READing Dutch with a German accent! (I can hardly type because I'm laughing so hard!)

Re customs, yes, that was the point. I simply HAD to be a drug courier. What else could account for the bizarre travel pattern? That's why they STARTed the luggage search.

Mike
(But what does "verzeihung" mean?)
("Ver" -- "completely" or maybe "en" as in "enchantment")
("Hung" -- No, not THAT meaning, THIS one: "ness" as in "nothingness" or "hood" as in "bachelorhood".)
(... ...)
(Nope, I don't get it. And I'm not going to do a brower search, either.)
McCarthy