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Aug 27th 2005, 7:15 am

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On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 17:21:49 +0200, Wolfgang Schwanke <[email protected]>
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    >"Iceman" <[email protected]> wrote in
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    >> and then you see tour groups of older
    >> Americans and Germans walking around the Red Light District looking
    >> shocked.
    >I don't know about Americans, but there are red light districts in
    >Germany and nobody is shocked. So why should Germans be shocked there?

I have never seen anyone looking 'shocked' in any red light district,
no matter what their age. I mean, what do they see that is so
unexpected?
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Aug 27th 2005, 7:32 am

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On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 21:04:03 +0100, DDT Filled Mormons
<deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote:

    >On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 19:43:48 +0100, Keith Anderson
    ><[email protected]> wrote:
    >>On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 20:08:45 +0100, DDT Filled Mormons
    >><deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote:
    >>>On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 12:37:13 +0100, mike o'sullivan <[email protected]>
    >>>wrote:
    >>>>Keith Anderson wrote:
    >>>>>
    >>>>>>The Vermeers! Better than any drug IMO.
    >>>>>
    >>>>> Psssst - meester - wanna quick view of Delft? For you ees very cheap,
    >>>>> my friend............
    >>>>That's the worst German accent I ever heard!
    >>>Sounded Mexican to me, like: "Thees ees my seester"
    >>It was supposed to be indeterminate international hustlerese, spoken
    >>on the streets of any major city you care to mention.
    >>OK, "You want hotel/change money/nice girl/hashish" is ubiquitous, but
    >>the strangest was in Kigali in Rwanda where I was offered a big yellow
    >>block of........cheese.
    >Sounds like a good line to drop in while having dinner. "When I was in
    >Rwanda, the strangest thing happened..."
    >Can I ask what the hell you were doing there?

Long time ago (1985). Small group safari in a converted British army
truck, led by a guy from Kettering who had dual British-Kenyan
nationality. Fine bloke - spoke fluent Swahili and knew how to bribe
border guards to get us from Rwanda into Zaïre. The tour was supposed
to have started at Entebbe, but Uganda was somewhat unstable at the
time, Milton Obote having been booted out of office for the second
time. So we (the group) landed at Kigali instead. So, first time in
Africa, and my very first hustler wanted to sell me this bloody
cheese!

Later visited the Virunga national park, and saw mountain gorillas in
the Kahuzi-Biega sanctuary near Bukavu.

Nice bunch of people - everyone helped out with getting water,
collecting wood for the cooking fire, helped with the cooking, too,
except of course for the Grumpies. ("We've paid good money for this
tour and we don't see why we should have to be skivvies")

At the end of a brilliant trip, Mrs Grumpy asked one of the group:

"Derek! Why are people on this trip calling me Mrs Grumpy?"

To which he smiled sweetly and replied:
"Because you're married to Mr Grumpy."

Keith, Bristol, UK

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Aug 27th 2005, 7:37 am

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DDT Filled Mormons wrote:

    > On 26 Aug 2005 09:40:46 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
    > >
    > >No. It has nothing to do with the drugs and hookers...
    > Yes it does. The availability of sex and drugs is Amsterdam's
    > strongest selling point. Who goes there just for the canals?

Is it really all that much fun to poke those bossy Dutch girls...???

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Aug 27th 2005, 8:04 am

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On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 19:43:48 +0100, Keith Anderson
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 20:08:45 +0100, DDT Filled Mormons
    ><deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote:
    >>On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 12:37:13 +0100, mike o'sullivan <[email protected]>
    >>wrote:
    >>>Keith Anderson wrote:
    >>>>
    >>>>>The Vermeers! Better than any drug IMO.
    >>>>
    >>>> Psssst - meester - wanna quick view of Delft? For you ees very cheap,
    >>>> my friend............
    >>>That's the worst German accent I ever heard!
    >>Sounded Mexican to me, like: "Thees ees my seester"
    >It was supposed to be indeterminate international hustlerese, spoken
    >on the streets of any major city you care to mention.
    >OK, "You want hotel/change money/nice girl/hashish" is ubiquitous, but
    >the strangest was in Kigali in Rwanda where I was offered a big yellow
    >block of........cheese.

Sounds like a good line to drop in while having dinner. "When I was in
Rwanda, the strangest thing happened..."

Can I ask what the hell you were doing there?
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Aug 27th 2005, 8:24 am

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On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 20:15:55 +0100, DDT Filled Mormons wrote:

    > I have never seen anyone looking 'shocked' in any red light district,
    > no matter what their age. I mean, what do they see that is so
    > unexpected?

I didn't expect them to be quite that unnatractive.

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Aug 27th 2005, 10:00 am

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On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 20:24:30 +0000 (UTC), BB
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 20:15:55 +0100, DDT Filled Mormons wrote:
    >> I have never seen anyone looking 'shocked' in any red light district,
    >> no matter what their age. I mean, what do they see that is so
    >> unexpected?
    >I didn't expect them to be quite that unnatractive.

I remember one of the places being filled with fat, ugly women, with
some other fat ugly woman leaning out saying "We are cheaper...
cheaper!". That created a lingering memory.
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Aug 27th 2005, 10:01 am

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On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 19:37:37 GMT, "Gregory Morrow"
<gregorymorrowEMERGENCYCANCELLATIONARCHIMEDES@eart hlink.net> wrote:

    >DDT Filled Mormons wrote:
    >> On 26 Aug 2005 09:40:46 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
    >> >
    >> >No. It has nothing to do with the drugs and hookers...
    >> Yes it does. The availability of sex and drugs is Amsterdam's
    >> strongest selling point. Who goes there just for the canals?
    >Is it really all that much fun to poke those bossy Dutch girls...???

Are any of those girls in Nieuwmarkt actually of Dutch origin?
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Aug 27th 2005, 10:02 am

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Aug 27th 2005, 4:22 pm

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George Broze

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Re: Why Amsterdam is so cool

Wouldn't know, but the thought occurred to me.

George

"Gregory Morrow"
<gregorymorrowEMERGENCYCANCELLATIONARCHIMEDES@eart hlink.net> wrote in
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    > DDT Filled Mormons wrote:
    >> On 26 Aug 2005 09:40:46 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
    >> >
    >> >No. It has nothing to do with the drugs and hookers...
    >> Yes it does. The availability of sex and drugs is Amsterdam's
    >> strongest selling point. Who goes there just for the canals?
    > Is it really all that much fun to poke those bossy Dutch girls...???
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    >

Aug 27th 2005, 10:50 pm

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On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 12:52:00 +0100, DDT Filled Mormons
<deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote:

    >On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 20:32:18 +0100, Keith Anderson
    ><[email protected]> wrote:
    >So, first time in
    >>Africa, and my very first hustler wanted to sell me this bloody
    >>cheese!
    >That's pretty bizzare. Did you try any of it?

No. But did buy some locally made stuff later from a Belgian-owned
general store in Beni (Zaïre) and very good it was too.
[----]
    >>Nice bunch of people - everyone helped out with getting water,
    >>collecting wood for the cooking fire, helped with the cooking, too,
    >>except of course for the Grumpies. ("We've paid good money for this
    >>tour and we don't see why we should have to be skivvies")
    >>At the end of a brilliant trip, Mrs Grumpy asked one of the group:
    >>"Derek! Why are people on this trip calling me Mrs Grumpy?"
    >>To which he smiled sweetly and replied:
    >>"Because you're married to Mr Grumpy."
    >You weren't tempted to feed them to the lions?

Didn't need to. They got plenty of flak right through the trip so
baiting the Grumpies became an enjoyable sport.

One night came the unmistakable sound of someone taking a leak near
the campsite.

"Oh FFS, Maxwell, can't you bugger off into the bush to do that?"

Answer (in a loud voice)

"It's OK, it's flowing towards the Grumpies' tent."

Keith, Bristol, UK

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Aug 27th 2005, 11:52 pm

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On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 20:32:18 +0100, Keith Anderson
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 21:04:03 +0100, DDT Filled Mormons
    ><deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote:
    >>On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 19:43:48 +0100, Keith Anderson
    >><[email protected]> wrote:
    >>>On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 20:08:45 +0100, DDT Filled Mormons
    >>><deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote:
    >>>>On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 12:37:13 +0100, mike o'sullivan <[email protected]>
    >>>>wrote:
    >>>>>Keith Anderson wrote:
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>>>The Vermeers! Better than any drug IMO.
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>> Psssst - meester - wanna quick view of Delft? For you ees very cheap,
    >>>>>> my friend............
    >>>>>That's the worst German accent I ever heard!
    >>>>Sounded Mexican to me, like: "Thees ees my seester"
    >>>It was supposed to be indeterminate international hustlerese, spoken
    >>>on the streets of any major city you care to mention.
    >>>OK, "You want hotel/change money/nice girl/hashish" is ubiquitous, but
    >>>the strangest was in Kigali in Rwanda where I was offered a big yellow
    >>>block of........cheese.
    >>Sounds like a good line to drop in while having dinner. "When I was in
    >>Rwanda, the strangest thing happened..."
    >>Can I ask what the hell you were doing there?
    >Long time ago (1985). Small group safari in a converted British army
    >truck, led by a guy from Kettering who had dual British-Kenyan
    >nationality. Fine bloke - spoke fluent Swahili and knew how to bribe
    >border guards to get us from Rwanda into Zaïre. The tour was supposed
    >to have started at Entebbe, but Uganda was somewhat unstable at the
    >time, Milton Obote having been booted out of office for the second
    >time. So we (the group) landed at Kigali instead. So, first time in
    >Africa, and my very first hustler wanted to sell me this bloody
    >cheese!

That's pretty bizzare. Did you try any of it?

    >Later visited the Virunga national park, and saw mountain gorillas in
    >the Kahuzi-Biega sanctuary near Bukavu.
    >Nice bunch of people - everyone helped out with getting water,
    >collecting wood for the cooking fire, helped with the cooking, too,
    >except of course for the Grumpies. ("We've paid good money for this
    >tour and we don't see why we should have to be skivvies")
    >At the end of a brilliant trip, Mrs Grumpy asked one of the group:
    >"Derek! Why are people on this trip calling me Mrs Grumpy?"
    >To which he smiled sweetly and replied:
    >"Because you're married to Mr Grumpy."

You weren't tempted to feed them to the lions?
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Aug 28th 2005, 1:06 am

#87

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DDT Filled Mormons wrote:
    > On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 20:24:30 +0000 (UTC), BB
    > <[email protected]> wrote:
    > >On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 20:15:55 +0100, DDT Filled Mormons wrote:
    > >
    > >> I have never seen anyone looking 'shocked' in any red light district,
    > >> no matter what their age. I mean, what do they see that is so
    > >> unexpected?
    > >
    > >I didn't expect them to be quite that unnatractive.
    > I remember one of the places being filled with fat, ugly women, with
    > some other fat ugly woman leaning out saying "We are cheaper...
    > cheaper!". That created a lingering memory.

Exactly - just like the US !!

G;

Aug 28th 2005, 4:36 am

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Timothy Kroesen

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I sure have! A group of Mennonite tourists developed a severe case of
tunnel vision while exiting the area...<g>

I first encountered the same group at Keukenhof gardens a few days
before where they were mistaken for staff in costume.

Tim K

"DDT Filled Mormons" <deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote in
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    > On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 17:21:49 +0200, Wolfgang Schwanke <[email protected]>
    > wrote:
    > >"Iceman" <[email protected]> wrote in
    > >news:[email protected] oups.com:
    > >
    > >> and then you see tour groups of older
    > >> Americans and Germans walking around the Red Light District looking
    > >> shocked.
    > >
    > >I don't know about Americans, but there are red light districts in
    > >Germany and nobody is shocked. So why should Germans be shocked
there?
    > I have never seen anyone looking 'shocked' in any red light district,
    > no matter what their age. I mean, what do they see that is so
    > unexpected?
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Aug 28th 2005, 4:36 am

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The scooter girls of Rome!

My fave was the beauty in a 'well cut' business-like suit, Four inch
heels and a matching helmet...<g> I hardly even minded almost getting
run down by her in a typical Roman street-cross-scrum!

However A'Dam still gets my vote for the most beautiful Women on
bicycles.

Tim K

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Aug 28th 2005, 4:36 am

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Timothy Kroesen

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Saw that painting there; quite impressive! Liked the Rousseau's better
though...

Loved the Three Van Gogh self portraits most of all.

Tim K

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    > On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 21:58:56 GMT, "Timothy Kroesen"
    > <[email protected]> wrote:
    > >Van Gogh holds no attraction??? I still remember the feeling looking
    > >into the self portraits and at 'the wheat fields'... along with the
    > >taste of pom frittes with satay saus in the evening...<g>
    > >
    > >OP is right; A'Dam is cool!
    > >
    > >I also remember sitting at a table outside a small coffee shop one of
    > >the first nights I spent there last year contemplating a spliff of
    > >Bubblegum... Looked left...Looked right... took a sly toke... Round
the
    > >corner stroll two of the most beautiful Police Women I'd ever seen...
    > >Choked Royal! Damn did we all have a good laugh!!!
    > >
    > >Where else but...<g>
    > I agree that Amsterdam is cool alright. I remember wander around
    > Rijksmuseum stoned out of my head looking for Bosch's Garden of
    > Earthly Delights, only to find out it was actually in Madrid.
    > Damn... back to the coffee shop...
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