Help out our Dutch Friends.

[Guest]

I bought some latex and snipped some of the dolly's split ends, applied some pink paint and constructed a little dolly pussy, very realistic, between the plastic legs.

The picture of this in my mind was too disturbing (though it was a great story and made me larf).

A neighbor used to make and sell loo dolls; I took pride in talking my mother out of buying one.

Perdita

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Hey, there could be a market for that.

(and from what I recall from my visit to Amsterdam, it would make a fine national symbol )

Just remember Abs when you market this...

 

[Guest]

The picture of this in my mind was too disturbing (though it was a great story and made me larf).

A neighbor used to make and sell loo dolls; I took pride in talking my mother out of buying one.

Perdita

I always knew you were cool.

Lou

 

[Lauren Hynde]

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Windmills, tulips and wooden shoes may be among the most beloved emblems of the Netherlands, but they are symbols the Dutch government hopes to avoid after it takes up the EU presidency, local media said on Tuesday.

Seriously. The Portuguese Prime Minister Durão Barroso has been invited this week to the President of the European Commission - the closest thing we have to an executive President of Europe. It's not just our Dutch friends who will be needing help over the next 5 years...

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Re: Re: Help out our Dutch Friends.

Seriously. The Portuguese Prime Minister Durão Barroso has been invited this week to the President of the European Commission - the closest thing we have to an executive President of Europe. It's not just our Dutch friends who will be needing help over the next 5 years...

I'll send you a dollar.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Re: Re: Re: Help out our Dutch Friends.

I'll send you a dollar.

Fuck, how much is that worth by now? 20 euro cents?

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Help out our Dutch Friends.

Fuck, how much is that worth by now? 20 euro cents?

You ungrateful bitch, go sell off your submarines!

 

[Lauren Hynde]

LOL

I don't think we have any.

Ok, give me the 20 cents back.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

LOL

I don't think we have any.

Ok, give me the 20 cents back.

I thought they purchase them last year? and you're not getting the 20 cents back. You want it come and get it...

 

[Lauren Hynde]

We're still in the process of buying them. Getting German submarines isn't as easy as picking them up at 7/11

 

[ABSTRUSE]

We're still in the process of buying them. Getting German submarines isn't as easy as picking them up at 7/11

Well then if you have money for German subs, don't come beggin at my door...Like you guys need subs anyway....so many countries want to attack Portugal

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

...Getting German submarines isn't as easy as picking them up at 7/11

What’s a German Submarine made of anyway?

Weiner schnitzel and sauerkraut on black bread?

Not so easy to get rid of either!

Stomach pump or high clonic?

 

[Black Tulip]

No Windmills, Tulips or Wooden Shoes, Please


AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Windmills, tulips and wooden shoes may be among the most beloved emblems of the Netherlands, but they are symbols the Dutch government hopes to avoid after it takes up the EU presidency, local media said on Tuesday.



The government decided such symbols were too "corny" and would detract from the image of the Netherlands that Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende wants to portray when the Dutch assume the rotating presidency of the 25-nation bloc on July 1.

How the hell did I miss this thread? Must have been some real life interfering. LOL

You guys do know that the prime minister looks like Harry Potter, right? You cannot take anything he says serious, besides he really is like a little boy out in the adult world.

"The cabinet isn't denying traditional symbols such as wooden clogs and tulips, but nevertheless we want to portray a more modern image," a spokesman for Dutch European Affairs Minister Atzo Nicolai was quoted as saying.


He added that tulips and wooden shoes might be seen as something "nice, but totally nutty."

I take that as a personal affront. Totally nutty, hmph.

In place of those symbols, the Dutch emblem for the EU presidency will incorporate the letters "NL" and the national colors -- red, white, blue and orange -- in a design that spells out "EU."


Balkenende's government, however, has decided to embrace at least one traditional Dutch symbol during the six-month EU presidency.


As thank-you gifts to journalists and others, it will hand out painted tins of Stroopwafels -- a sticky sweet cookie made of waffles and caramel that is a favorite Dutch treat.

I had two this afternoon. Ummmmm. But that is not corny? Jeez.

I say we offer up Black Tulip as the new national symbol.

Excuse me?!?!?!

What have I ever done to you? How can you be so heartless?

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[oggbashan]

I suggest tomatoes as the modern Dutch product. Produced in subsidised overheated hothouses and definitely not organic. Just like the EU.

Tomatoes were once considered the sexiest fruit in the world and guaranteed to revive the most overused equipment.

Together with a Dutch Cap as a hat, the tomato could signify - we used to be the sexiest but you won't get pregnant this time.

Commiserations on holding the EU presidency. It always seems to be the job that nobody wants because the shit will hit the fan sometime during the term and the President and his country will be blamed.

Og