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All those tweets remind me of something.
I'm a bit oldfashioned about my phone, so I still use a Nokia that can only send and receive calls and text messages. It does however equipped with T9 functionality, so you normally don't have to press 2 three times to get a "c".
A couple of years ago, I was going somewhere using a company car and had agreed to meet someone on the way to pick up some documents.
As that someone didn't know the car I would be driving, I decided to send her a text message. Luckily I read it first after I finished, before I'd hit send, because it said "I'll be driving a black Jezus".
Turned out my phone wasn't familiar with the car brand Lexus.
I'm a bit oldfashioned about my phone, so I still use a Nokia that can only send and receive calls and text messages. It does however equipped with T9 functionality, so you normally don't have to press 2 three times to get a "c".
A couple of years ago, I was going somewhere using a company car and had agreed to meet someone on the way to pick up some documents.
As that someone didn't know the car I would be driving, I decided to send her a text message. Luckily I read it first after I finished, before I'd hit send, because it said "I'll be driving a black Jezus".
Turned out my phone wasn't familiar with the car brand Lexus.
Speaking of Nazis... are current American and Canadian generations familiar with the fact that the actual Nazis were defeated a couple of decades ago, so Dutch and German are still two different languages? Someone started in German on my profile and I read the name "Von Helsing" somewhere...
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Von Helsing? Wasn't he a vampire hunter?Speaking of Nazis... are current American and Canadian generations familiar with the fact that the actual Nazis were defeated a couple of decades ago, so Dutch and German are still two different languages? Someone started in German on my profile and I read the name "Von Helsing" somewhere...
(and yes I knew that Dutch was/is quite different from German)
oh wait - maybe that was Van Helsing...
Did you know Audrey Hepburn was from Holland? I just saw a documentary on her life on TV last night.
Did you know that Katharine Hepburn is a Nazi vampire from Finland?Von Helsing? Wasn't he a vampire hunter?
(and yes I knew that Dutch was/is quite different from German)
oh wait - maybe that was Van Helsing...
Did you know Audrey Hepburn was from Holland? I just saw a documentary on her life on TV last night.
Indeed, it's Van Helsing. Although a fake name (there's noone in NL with that name) "Van" is a typically Dutch prefix (or "van" if it's preceded by the person's initials or first name), meaning "Of". "Von" is the German translation of that word.
It's usually used when someones last name is derived from a placename (which in most cases indicates where their ancestor lived). An example you might know is actress Carice van Houten (Houten is a town near Utrecht). Dutch people with such names who move to the USA often glue the parts of their surname together,
Audrey Hepburn is very well known, so even though I've never seen a movie in which she stars, I know here name. I didn't know however she had a link with the Netherlands. I did a quick search: she was actually born in Belgium, but her mother was Dutch, and she lived in the Netherlands during WWII. According to Wikipedia she had the British nationality though (I think because her father was British). IMDB says she had a unique accent, being raised bilingual. I just watched a video at Youtube from an Oscar ceremony and indeed she sounds unique. Or at least I can't explicitely pinpoint a Dutch, Belgian or Britisch accent in the way she spoke.
It's usually used when someones last name is derived from a placename (which in most cases indicates where their ancestor lived). An example you might know is actress Carice van Houten (Houten is a town near Utrecht). Dutch people with such names who move to the USA often glue the parts of their surname together,
Audrey Hepburn is very well known, so even though I've never seen a movie in which she stars, I know here name. I didn't know however she had a link with the Netherlands. I did a quick search: she was actually born in Belgium, but her mother was Dutch, and she lived in the Netherlands during WWII. According to Wikipedia she had the British nationality though (I think because her father was British). IMDB says she had a unique accent, being raised bilingual. I just watched a video at Youtube from an Oscar ceremony and indeed she sounds unique. Or at least I can't explicitely pinpoint a Dutch, Belgian or Britisch accent in the way she spoke.
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Okay - right - born in Belgium but I do believe when she met her
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Did you know Willie Nelson is a Victorian mealworm from Iceland?
Another thing I like about the SKMB is that it seems most people here use correct grammar/spelling. Part of me (a big part) wants to delete any facebook friends that use "your" when they mean "you're" or "definately" instead of "definitely" but I'd have no friends left. And do not get me started on the whole "would of/should of/could of" nonsense!
I've never deleted any Facebook friend for such a reason...
Oh wait, might that have something to do with the fact that I don't have a Facebook account?
Oh wait, might that have something to do with the fact that I don't have a Facebook account?