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How come the Country is The Netherlands but goes by Holland and the people are called Dutch? Those crazy Dutch. But who cares. They gave us Van Halen.


4 posted on 12/11/2014 5:23:14 AM PST by Hyman Roth
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How come the Country is The Netherlands but goes by Holland and the people are called Dutch? Those crazy Dutch. But who cares. They gave us Van Halen."

Asked the Yank from the United States, a country known as America.

8 posted on 12/11/2014 5:45:51 AM PST by muir_redwoods ("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
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To: Hyman Roth
Those crazy Dutch.

And the New Amsterdam Dutch have nothing to do with the Pennsylvania Dutch. Trying to speak Dutch to the Pennsylvania Dutch will probably get you in Dutch.

14 posted on 12/11/2014 6:19:02 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Hyman Roth

“Those crazy Dutch. But who cares. They gave us Van Halen.”

*APPLAUSE*


27 posted on 12/11/2014 7:07:28 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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