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

The wonderful Johan Cruyff of Ajax fame! In that case, he must be forgiven everything, linguistic or otherwise oops...something's happening in the Czech/Ghana game..back later

that very same JC. over the years he developped his own logic, language, theories about life, universe and everything, became expert on wine, pigs, gave management trainings, ... you name it, he'll do it. mostly he's very funny.

Czech-Ghana.. not 3-0 now

Well he can do no wrong in my eyes...and funny too!
Good goals in the Ghana match. It's strange but it's the women in my family who like football

JC grew up in the same village in East Amsterdam where I grew up, he is some .. what .. 8 years older? 7 ?? or so?
so he has roughly the same accent I had (sometimes still have). He's absolutely brilliant mixing up expressions he vaguely heard and partly understood, creating fully new sayings, expressions. Listening to him is more a party game than anything else, he's brilliant. His newly invented sayings are usually so ... amazing that lots of people start using that same saying. as far as I know he contributed some 4 or 5 new additions to the official Dutch dictionary. And he's commenting the matches of the dutch team now. (and does press the meet.. or was it .. never mind).

women liking football.. .. my daughter, known in hootoo as 19, can recognise football

Oh that my Dutch were good enough to fully enjoy JC's commentary! (And I have to confess to not *fully* understanding the offside rule and various technical subtleties..ahem) My daughter accuses me of merely liking the bronzed knees but that is a vile calumny (erm..doth the lady protest too much perhaps? )

don't worry about Dutch .. I'm afraid that's only for native speakers.. his twists and fantasies are.. his logic can be translated though .. some of his phrases are used for commercials. Financial products, , , sanitary pads.. I think most advertising agencies record his comments for later use.
.. 19 usually remarks on this topic that she prefers rugby ..

there's a brilliant beer commercial on women and football, specifically the offside rule... .. ...

http://www.boozetime.com/viewclip.php?media_id=216

explains all about off side and why women never understand it

Hello again..very sorry about NL (I was cheering on your side!) And such nice knees too! Am just packing to go camping and of course the heavens have opened so the first item is wellies The link you sent me about the offside rule...I found a lot of risque jokes and page 3 type pictures but am none the wiser on the topic of football rules...
Hope all's well with you and yours..back in a week or so

Elfie
PS I have some songs online (forgive me if I've mentioned this already..my memory is more of a forgettory as you know
http://www.pzaaz.com/elfie

wow .. no, you didn't point at the pzaaz site.. you can sing! I mean .. really sing! you're in my mp3 player well.. the songs of course .. June Tabor indeed (I noted that in the Influences Section)
impressive!

and .. camping as in "tent" ? .. I did tell about the holidays in Wales some .. ten or so years ago? when we found out why the grass in Wales is greener than anywhere else? (because it y rains of course) Never seen so much water as in those two weeks

Very glad you like the songs! for putting the music on your MP3 player too Pzaaz is such a friendly site and has been tremendously encouraging, especially as I'm devoted to the free download principle and this seems like a good way to do that.
Yes it was proper camping but I was in the van and my daughter in a tent. It was a gathering of home-educators from all over the place, including the Netherlands, Finland, Spain and Mexico. Sort of like a cross between a festival and a conference and the weather was glorious
Am off on me travels again..to a Quaker wedding in London and then the Small Nations Festival in mid/west Wales (but of course it's more camping in the not enTIREly water-tight VW camper and the possibilities of rain hover ever on the horizon )
Have a good weekend..who will win the World Cup, d'you reckon?
Elfie

the .. tricky thing; first guess France.

the almost water-tight camper.. right .. worst is if the roof leaks and the bottom doesn't .. (images of fish flipflopping on the wet floor). Glorious weather in Wales: I can only say !
I remember 21 and me (he was 9 or 10 at that time) wondered if we would indeed duck like webbed feet. 19's tent (8 or 9 then) blew over one night .. it could no longer stand the gale force winds, so she sat shivering in my sleeping bag while I rescued her cubic metre t-shirts, pants, skirts (!), socks, ... in the process disturbing the system (what?) so she no longer knew what was clean and what wasn't.

still I really enjoyed it.. we went for a ride on horseback, the farm found for me a cross between a horse and a two-seat couch. And a ladder to climb into it. (I am 1m88, just over 6 ft) no way I could hop onto it without a ladder.

What a lovely picture you paint of this fair land...rain, soggy clothes, shivering campers and gales, and to round it all off, a gigantic horse! Well the camper hardly leaked at all and I was so Tired and Emotional (that's really T 'n' E not a euphemism for drunk ) that I just fell into my sleeping bag and slept through the Saturday night bands! (No mean feat as they were very loud ) But made up for it on the Sunday and heard the amazing Steintryggur from Iceland and even tried out my stumbling Icelandic of which more anon...
Bless (as the Icelandic folk say)
Elfie

sleep through the Saturday night bands ! .. T&E indeed then.
Best is the party one looks back on after,
And remembers all that happened.

Icelandic indeed! Icelandic or old Norse? (I think I could make a reasonable attempt to read either.. very slowly of course and with mistakes; on good sense or knowledge no man should boast)

would you know yet more? or what?