OT but amusing I think.

Hello All!

Alexander McColl Smith, in a book of the "44 Scotland Street" series,
mentioned a parlor game, to come up with a famous Belgian who was not
called Leopold. You know, I can't think of one :-)


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James Silverton:

Alexander McColl Smith, in a book of the "44 Scotland Street" series,
mentioned a parlor game, to come up with a famous Belgian who was not
called Leopold. You know, I can't think of one :-)

Easy. Willem van Hanegem, soccer player.
OK, he's from Zeeuws Vlaanderen in the Netherlands, but that's
considered 'close enough'.

"James Silverton" wrote in message
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Hello All!

Alexander McColl Smith, in a book of the "44 Scotland Street" series,
mentioned a parlor game, to come up with a famous Belgian who was not
called Leopold. You know, I can't think of one :-)

And I can't think of any who were called Leopold.

Anyway, here they a
http://www.famousbelgians.net/alphabetical.htm

Apart from Tin Tin, which I don't think counts, I've never heard of any of
them!

(OK, I lied)

tim

tim..... wrote on Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:15:08 +0100:


"James Silverton" wrote in
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Hello All!

Alexander McColl Smith, in a book of the "44 Scotland Street"
series, mentioned a parlor game, to come up with a famous
Belgian who was not called Leopold. You know, I can't think
of one :-)

And I can't think of any who were called Leopold.

Anyway, here they a
http://www.famousbelgians.net/alphabetical.htm

Apart from Tin Tin, which I don't think counts, I've never
heard of any of them!

(OK, I lied)

Well, I am (somewhat) enlightened. I did recognize 11 of them :-) Apart
from Leo Baekeland, Audrey Hepburn and Ilya Prigogine, the others are
musicians or painters, some of whom I might maintain were actually
Dutch.

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:58:16 -0400, "James Silverton"
wrote:

Hello All!

Alexander McColl Smith, in a book of the "44 Scotland Street" series,
mentioned a parlor game, to come up with a famous Belgian who was not
called Leopold. You know, I can't think of one :-)



I sure can't think of many, whether called "Leopold" or not.

The one name that comes to mind is Peter Paul Rubens, the great
painter.

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Ken wrote on Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:56:26 -0700:

Hello All!

Alexander McColl Smith, in a book of the "44 Scotland Street"
series, mentioned a parlor game, to come up with a famous
Belgian who was not called Leopold. You know, I can't think
of one :-)

I sure can't think of many, whether called "Leopold" or not.

The one name that comes to mind is Peter Paul Rubens, the
great painter.

I said I recognized 11 but there are 12, very much including Monsigor
Georges Lemaitre who invented the "Big Bang" theory and warned the Pope
not to take it as proof of the existence of God.

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

James Silverton wrote:
Hello All!

Alexander McColl Smith, in a book of the "44 Scotland Street" series,
mentioned a parlor game, to come up with a famous Belgian who was not
called Leopold. You know, I can't think of one :-)


In opera José van Dam (born Joseph van Damme), in more popular music
Jacques Brel, and of course for "action" movie lovers Jean-Claude Van Damme.

On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:01:20 -0400, "James Silverton"
wrote:

Ken wrote on Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:56:26 -0700:

Hello All!

Alexander McColl Smith, in a book of the "44 Scotland Street"
series, mentioned a parlor game, to come up with a famous
Belgian who was not called Leopold. You know, I can't think
of one :-)

I sure can't think of many, whether called "Leopold" or not.

The one name that comes to mind is Peter Paul Rubens, the
great painter.

I said I recognized 11 but there are 12, very much including Monsigor
Georges Lemaitre


Yes, I know that name, but didn't realize that he was Belgian.


who invented the "Big Bang" theory and warned the Pope
not to take it as proof of the existence of God.

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

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Ken Blake
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On Sep 29, 6:58*pm, "James Silverton"
wrote:
Hello All!

Alexander McColl Smith, in a book of the "44 Scotland Street" series,
mentioned a parlor game, to come up with a famous Belgian who was not
called Leopold. You know, I can't think of one :-)

--

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

Hobo Ken, he used to live near Antwerp but now lives in New Jersey....

James Silverton wrote:
tim..... wrote on Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:15:08 +0100:


"James Silverton" wrote in
message ...
Hello All!

Alexander McColl Smith, in a book of the "44 Scotland Street"
series, mentioned a parlor game, to come up with a famous
Belgian who was not called Leopold. You know, I can't think
of one :-)

And I can't think of any who were called Leopold.

Anyway, here they a
http://www.famousbelgians.net/alphabetical.htm

Apart from Tin Tin, which I don't think counts, I've never
heard of any of them!

(OK, I lied)

Well, I am (somewhat) enlightened. I did recognize 11 of them :-) Apart
from Leo Baekeland, Audrey Hepburn and Ilya Prigogine, the others are
musicians or painters, some of whom I might maintain were actually Dutch.


I always somehow thought Plastic Bertrand was French, but never mind.