[SOC] Belgium and France ... and other ones.

[Claude - F5PBL]

Bonjour / Bonsoir,

So, as has said Jan, the Kingdom of Belgium is divided in 2 parts : a French
speaking one (la Wallonie, southern part) and a Dutch speaking one (la Flandre,
northern part).
BTW, this great country has some political groups requesting separation from
each part. I am not sure abt Flandre but I know that our Wallon friends would
like to leave ON gvt and to be leaded by .. France (!).
A bit "funny" in a period where some French areas are looking for more "freedom"
(e.g. Corsica, Britanny or Pays Basque).

Abt Belgium and our jokes, to keep it short, let's say that most of the jokes
abt the Belgian people are of the same kind of jokes of the ones abt blondes ...
Just change the word "blonde" with "Belgian" and you have them.
So, abt the runway, in Belgium, runways are larger than long bcoz ON pilots are
landing with a 90 deg. offset.
Ok, this one is not one of the best ...

FYI, what the English speaking people are calling "french fried potatoes" are in
fact a Belgian speciality.
The "offical" way to eat "frites" in ON land is with mussels (and mayonnaise for
the potatoes, if you want ..). Beer for the drink. The mussels are cooked with
white wine and spices. I really like that - but w/o mayonnaise and the beer !

So, Belgian are said to be with a low I.Q.
And as we are speaking of local sayings, HB9 people are said to be low in all
their deeds. In fact, they are speaking slowly and the most famous HB9 saying
is, when you want a guy to hurry for something, he will answer :"Y a pas le feu
au lac ..." = "The lake [Leman] is not on fire", i.e. "we have time ..."

A French humorist (a SK I told you abt some weeks ago, Coluche was his name) has
said: "ON and HB9 people are giving us good jokes to laugh at. They are of the
same roots, it was not worthing doing 2 separate countries for such a result !".

Now, on a more serious note abt Switzerland : for sure you know that this
country is not so big and full with mountains.A vy beautiful country, BTW.
I remember some TV broadcast abt the HB9 army, a well-equipped army with "up to
date" planes and so on. The bases are hidden in the mountains. And the "funny"
part of the story is that they can not train "live" at full speed bcoz if the
pilot wants to reach the full speed of the military plane, the plane will be out
of HB9 land before reaching Mach 2 or more. Quite frustrating ;o))

73!
Claude

PS: Rob, since you are there and as we are speaking abt Belgium : what do you
answer to "Bedlam in Belgium" ?!

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