Dear Erwin;
 
I also know a lot jokes like that, but I many of them are told both in the
Netherlands and in Belgium: you simply change the Belgian by a Dutchman or
vice versa.
Enough about our "mutual hate". What kind of shells do you collect? and
are you coming to the Belgian shellshow in Aarschot (first weekend of
May)?
 
Bye
 
David
 
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Erwin Bon wrote:
 
> Hi David,
>
> I sure don't have problems with you Belgians, although there are a lot of
> jokes on Belgians here in Holland. Hehehe, but a Belgian collegue of mine
> also tells a lot of Dutchman-jokes...
>
> As you probably understood I'm Dutch. My name is Erwin Bon, I'm 24 years old
> and just recently started collecting.
>
> Bye,
>
> Erwin
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: David Monsecour <[log in to unmask]>
> Aan: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Datum: dinsdag 24 februari 1998 11:32
> Onderwerp: Re: statistics of the list
>
>
> >Hello everybody;
> >
> >Let me make clear one thing: Belgium does not belong to the Netherlands!!
> >Belgians and Dutchmen are almost like cat and mouse (although I don't have
> >any problems with our Northern neighbours, as long as they don't consider
> >me the proverbial mouse)
> >
> >David.
> >P.S: How many Belgians resp. Dutchmen are active on this line?=B5
> >
> >
> >
> >On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Amy Edwards wrote:
> >
> >> Current information on the CONCH-L list:
> >>=20
> >> Total number of subscribers to the list:  340
> >>=20
> >> Total number of countries represented:  34
> >> (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Cuba, Denmark,
> Franc=
> >e,
> >> Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hongkong, Indonesia, Italy, Japan,
> >> Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru,
> >> Philippines, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden,
> Switzerlan=
> >d,
> >> Taiwan, Thailand,USA, Venezuela)
> >> *subscribers may be counted as being from a country they do not live in
> >> because of their internet service provider's address (i.e. they are
> count=
> >ed
> >> as being from the USA if their email address ends in NET, COM or MIL).
> >>=20
> >> The four countries with the most subscribers are:
> >>   USA (258)
> >>   Italy (9)
> >>   Australia (6)
> >>   Netherlands (Belgium)
> >>=20
> >> Statistics gathered since 11 Mar 1996 (708 days)
> >>   Total (mail):  7695
> >>   Average (units/day):  11  (the volume per day has almost doubled)
> >>=20
> >> During this time period 537 individual subscribers have posted to the
> lis=
> >t.
> >>=20
> >> 1491 of the posts came from subscribers outside of the US (19.37%)
> >>=20
> >> 35 subscribers posted a total of 3555 messages, 46.20% of the messages.
> >>=20
> >> Amy Edwards, Program Coordinator ------ [log in to unmask]
> >>=20
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> >> Athens, GA 30602-1882       --------       http://museum.nhm.uga.edu/
> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> "A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, can never go back to its original
> >> dimensions."             Oliver Wendell Holmes
> >>=20
>