It's Officially - How NOT To Plan A Wedding

[beli]

fah just realizes she hasn't bought her father a birthday present. Thinks, can I use the line "but I gave you grandchildren" again.

How about the petrified wooden clock?

 

[fah]

Hey sorry Salome, didnt mean to insult your language. I was studing Bahasa at high school not long after they changed from Dutch spelling to English spelling and the whole tj = ch etc biz sent me nuts.

I am in awe of others who are proficient in several languages. Me, I find English tough enough.

 

[Angela Harlem]

Dont worry too much Beli, I insult his language all the time.

 

[beli]

you probably couldn't if you tried to

Is that a challenge?

 

[fah]

How about the petrified wooden clock?

Sadly, we no longer own the clock. We sold it a garage sale and I remember the man who bought it was really happy to buy. It was as if he had found treasure.

 

[beli]

I am in awe of others who are proficient in several languages. Me, I find English tough enough.

Didnt say I was proficient at it, I just went to the classes for a couple of years so I could get out of compulory French. POMs study French as they live next door to France but Im not gonna as Im an irreligous athiest republican (stomps feet). Yes, I was a 'delightful' 14 year old.

 

[Salome]

Dont worry too much Beli, I insult his language all the time.

you just wish you could pronounce Peter van den Hoogenband

 

[Angela Harlem]

let me help you beli

the standard greeting in dutch is rotte weer (or maybe rot weer, but who cares )
everything is prefixed with 'the' or 'het' as they typo it vocally
the national emblem is peter vandenhoovervacuumcleanerbag

just repeat:
alles in Nederland zuigt, de zelfs spelling

 

[Salome]

 

[fah]

This language stuff is too tough for me.

Lets talk about food or beer.

 

[beli]

You Dutch people say such funny words.

Actually what I cannot pronounce is the Dutch East Indies thingie ie sumfin like Verdiche Oost Indiche Champagne? Doesnt sound well with an Aussie accent.

 

[Angela Harlem]

when did you get zee clapper?

1964, shore leave dutch east indies

 

[beli]

We can talk about food.

Rollmops are disgusting.

 

[Angela Harlem]

what the heck are rollmops?

 

[fah]

Yes but steak is good and that's what I'm going to go cook for dinner.

Time to fire up the barbie or maybe use my indoor grill, it's pretty cold

 

[beli]

Except we are supposed to be talking about weddings. I had a 3 tiered hazlenut mud cake with chocolate slabs for icing for my wedding cake. Best 300 bucks I have ever spent.

 

[Salome]

what the heck are rollmops?

even I know what they are


don't really like them though

the only way to eat a herring is raw with unions

 

[fah]

Oh yum...

 

[Angela Harlem]

sounds like mine, except it doesnt. mine was 2 tier, bottom choc mud and the top was gross disgusting fruit cake.
i never got to have any.


mine was free so im not complaining.

 

[Angela Harlem]

even I know what they are


don't really like them though

the only way to eat a herring is raw with unions

my god johan. you are not serious????????


hahahahaha

you must be joking,




pssst, what are rollmops??????

 

[beli]

Dont you hate that. And you spend 300 bucks on flowers that you leave at the wedding. I keep meaning to buy a big bunch of flowers just so I can enjoy them for a week. Perhaps we should all meet up and buy a chockie wedding cake and just us eat it.

Or we could all crash meggies wedding.

 

[beli]

rollmops = disgusting Dutch pickled herring "delicacy".

 

[beli]

Angie, I think you got the better deal with immigrants. You got all the Turks etc we got the Dutch, South Africans, etc tribe who CANNOT COOK!

 

[Angela Harlem]

you and salome both explained this at the same time, but i do remember. they;re in the deli section of the supermarket and look as though they would smell rather fowl.

yes.


true on the wedding cake and flowers too. we have the loveliest flowers at ours and they disappeared. but mum and dad had the limo packed with everyone's presents and crap on the way home so they couldnt have taken them if we had even thought of it.

 

[beli]

you and salome both explained this at the same time,

Yea, but did he explain it as eloquently as me?

 

[Angela Harlem]

http://www.hollandbymail.com/item_list/specialties/ouwehand_rolmops.html

this was his explanaition lol.

they look like snake parts. utterly completely revolting.

 

[beli]

My Dad once went to a resturant in China where he ordered the snake dish. So they brought out some snakes for him to choose from and then skinned and gutted it on the table.

 

[Angela Harlem]

Angie, I think you got the better deal with immigrants. You got all the Turks etc we got the Dutch, South Africans, etc tribe who CANNOT COOK!

haha i live next door to an indian family and they drive me nuts every day with their food. it is the loveliest smell. the wife cooked for us once....
damnit, it is lunch time and i am hungry.

wionder if its too early for chinese...i havent had breakfast yet.




i now have a weird craving for steamed spinach.

 

[beli]

I had half a packet of Royals and some plastic cheese for breakfast.

Chinese? As in fresh snake?

 

[beli]

Yep, Angie and Salome have disappeared again. Anyone else notice how they always leave together.