h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

ah well so here the idea is

"can we do it?" .. "yes we can!"

should we do it?

why not?

exactly

... aahhh.. Mala?? ... Mala???? .... uuuhhh... you're not sleeping yet, are you?? ... about the sugar.. would that be the dark brown sugar, or the light brown??

I'm wide awake

Either is fine, but dark brown's better, of course I just got some of the light brown from my mother, imported from America by my grandfather

oh good good.. well I got a few of those

A few? Oh dear

But I'll make these for breakfast Sunday, then A39174672

!!!!

ah, it's in 500 g bags

Fair enough. But you're robbing me of my usual excuse to go over the border

Thanks!

I wouldn't want to do something horrible like that

there'll be lots of other reasons to smuggle goods into D-land??

Well, the top reason is that with my student ticket it only costs me 1.20€ to get to Venlo

..

ah .. less than a !!

but .. Venlo??? .. Venlo????

Only place I can reach with that ticket.

Venlo is a nice little village in the south of NL .. where people talk funnier than in the rest of the country ..

and it's just beyond the wall made of newspapers that limits the civilised world

Well, I might be doing my Master's in Maastricht, they talk mighty funny there, too

... more so !! does Maastricht university do architecture?

I didn't know that .. I only knew Delft did that

I did a project in Maastricht once they talk REAL funny

Almost like B*lg**ns!

They have the Berlage Institute

TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING DUTCH:
1. You can get arrested for growing plants, but not for smoking them.
2. You can make jokes about the Belgians and still drink their beer.
3. a. You can legally kill yourself
b. You can legally be killed
4. You're exactly like the Germans, except that nobody hates you.
5. You think you are a world power, but everyone else thinks Copenhagen is your capital.....
6. You get to insult people and defend yourself by saying it's a national tradition.
7. You can put your finger in a dyke and it will save your country
8. You live in the most densely populated country in Europe, and still you've never seen your neighbours.
9. If the economy is bad, blame the Germans. If a war is started, blame the Germans. If you lose your keys, blame the Germans.
10. Bikes are public property. Locks are a challenge.

TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING BELGIAN:
1. You get to speak three languages but none of them intelligibly.
2. If other countries want to fight a war, they will do it in your country.
3. You can brew drinks out of fruit, and still call it beer.
4. You are either
a. like the Dutch, just less efficient
b. like the French, just less romantic
c. like the Germans
5. Decent fries. Real mayonnaise. Great chocolate. The best beer.
6. No one knows anything about you, except for the Dutch and French and they make fun of you.
7. More scandals in a week than any other country in a decade.
8. You can drive like a maniac on the road and nobody cares
9. All your famous countrymen are either imaginary, or sex-offenders
10. Face it. It's not really a country, is it?

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