the most famous Belgian was King Leopold II, who personally amputated the limbs of about 9 million Congolese, because "he was worth it", or sthg. I real nice guy!
--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, nickhewitt25 <no_reply@...> wrote:
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> --- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dickson
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> > Ca plane pour moi...well....moi and the other guy... :-)
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> That would be Plastic Bertrand.
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> On the subject of Belgians, there was something on British TV recently
> about "famous Belgians", which produced nothing but blank faces. I can
> think of Kim Clijsters (tennis player), a recently elected bureaucrat
> called Dupuy (who was vilified in the European Parliament by UKIP MEP
> Nigel Farage) and Merouane Fellaini, a footballer (soccer player to the
> USAians) with a stupid hair-cut who plays for Everton. Apart from
> that........no-one!
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> (P.S. would our token Belgian just think of these comments as 'friendly
> fire' - the USAians also know all about that! :-)
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