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Belgium is a beautiful city. (Original Post) GreatCaesarsGhost Jun 2016 OP
Is he wrong about that? GummyBearz Jun 2016 #1
Well for starters Belgium is a country malaise Jun 2016 #8
Thus, the joke kentauros Jun 2016 #12
haha GummyBearz Jun 2016 #13
I'd say it takes great skill kentauros Jun 2016 #16
LOL malaise Jun 2016 #19
Hahahah malaise Jun 2016 #18
Geography has a Liberal bias! n/t Yavin4 Jun 2016 #41
Knowledge has a liberal bias malaise Jun 2016 #44
Hear, hear. Truer words never said. Hortensis Jun 2016 #47
+! No kidding. What an a*s businessman moron whose mother immigrated appalachiablue Jun 2016 #56
Message auto-removed Name removed Jun 2016 #67
Regarding foreign lands, I prefer Hawaii demwing Jun 2016 #48
Bwaaaaaaaaahhahahah malaise Jun 2016 #50
Kick. sarcasmo Jun 2016 #61
LOL. nt bemildred Jun 2016 #2
Ignorant prat Warpy Jun 2016 #3
His father was from Germany. Belgium borders it. brush Jun 2016 #28
He's been to Scotland* to bully the Scots PaulaFarrell Jun 2016 #43
Dump golfing at his course in Scotland. All of him. appalachiablue Jun 2016 #58
He must have traveled, he's been wealthy Hortensis Jun 2016 #49
All streets leading to local 4 Stars look a lot alike from the inside of an armored Mercedes Benz leveymg Jun 2016 #52
Seriously, although it's hard to stay serious Hortensis Jun 2016 #54
Right, and private elevators to the penthouse suites. Warpy Jun 2016 #63
Extreme wealth and the single-minded pursuit of it creates poverty of the mind leveymg Jun 2016 #71
If it wasn't so terrifying to think of him as potus flamingdem Jun 2016 #4
Oy vey frazzled Jun 2016 #5
Surprised he didn't add "and they make great chocolates" tonyt53 Jun 2016 #6
Well, that part would be true. TwilightZone Jun 2016 #7
It sure is. From the Louvre to Big Ben and the Golden Gate Bridge, Belgium is a great city. NightWatcher Jun 2016 #9
They have terrific waffles. Beaverhausen Jun 2016 #10
And Beer ! Plus it is hard to get a bad meal in a Belgian restaurant. Of course their erm Freedom OnDoutside Jun 2016 #72
Belgium kentauros Jun 2016 #11
I'm glad I'm not the only geek around here! eom Maeve Jun 2016 #23
I started with the BBC radioplays. kentauros Jun 2016 #25
"Do you realise that robot can hum like Pink Floyd?" muriel_volestrangler Jun 2016 #29
Oh, that's cool! kentauros Jun 2016 #30
Even better - Gilmour gave him a solo spot in a Pink Floyd show as a 42nd birthday present muriel_volestrangler Jun 2016 #32
Google isn't letting me look at the links. kentauros Jun 2016 #33
Wow! Found video here suffragette Jun 2016 #42
Excellent find! kentauros Jun 2016 #64
I hadn't noticed! But I did notice when my bill at the grocery store suffragette Jun 2016 #65
Ha! kentauros Jun 2016 #66
I hadn't caught that either. suffragette Jun 2016 #68
This is a SPOILER for everyone who hasn't read the 5-book "trilogy" ;) kentauros Jun 2016 #69
I forgot about the scrabble. suffragette Jun 2016 #70
You're welcome :) kentauros Jun 2016 #73
We did, too! Maeve Jun 2016 #31
If you have a "Don't Panic!" button kentauros Jun 2016 #34
Yes and then you kept losing various lints that you had to pick up Maeve Jun 2016 #38
The BBC has put it online muriel_volestrangler Jun 2016 #46
I don't know rather to thank you or hate you for that! Maeve Jun 2016 #53
I never got far in that game. Did better in Starship Titanic. suffragette Jun 2016 #51
But is it as beautiful as Afghan? Tommy_Carcetti Jun 2016 #14
What a pity Dumbya's not eligible to be his VP. KamaAina Jun 2016 #15
It's particularly lovely in the Spring when the Brussels sprout... brooklynite Jun 2016 #17
Ha!! Priceless. Thanks for the much-needed laugh. nruthie Jun 2016 #35
Very clever OldHippieChick Jun 2016 #39
Sarah Palin would be a perfect running mate Sanity Claws Jun 2016 #20
Reminds me of Olbermann's special comment on Chertoff 'Louisiana is a city' suffragette Jun 2016 #21
Belgium is a small city, well a hamlet, maybe a village here in Wisconsin. HereSince1628 Jun 2016 #22
used to work in belguim wisconsin....truly not a city dembotoz Jun 2016 #45
Kind of like Mateen's father matt819 Jun 2016 #24
A few months ago on Twitter he said Paris was in Germany. auntpurl Jun 2016 #26
Well; it was for a few years... brooklynite Jun 2016 #57
He can't be President JustAnotherGen Jun 2016 #27
Didn't Palin say edhopper Jun 2016 #36
(Inception bwah) MowCowWhoHow III Jun 2016 #37
Africa is a great city too! And so is New Mexico! struggle4progress Jun 2016 #40
I knew this was going to be about Trump before I even smirkymonkey Jun 2016 #55
Bet Dan Quayle is still available for VP, he enjoys golf too. And is a spring chicken. appalachiablue Jun 2016 #59
One thing I'll say for Hillary Clinton: they have their rapid reaction team at work... brooklynite Jun 2016 #60
And his favourite cologne is Bruges Monk06 Jun 2016 #62

malaise

(268,695 posts)
18. Hahahah
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 01:51 PM
Jun 2016

Most of my siblings were there last year - mom went to school at the convent in Thildonk (not a city - a village)

appalachiablue

(41,103 posts)
56. +! No kidding. What an a*s businessman moron whose mother immigrated
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 08:45 PM
Jun 2016

from Scotland, he has his GC there, father from Germany. Has all the money in the world, is well traveled yet doesn't know geography - the Orlando shooter was 'from Afgan' like the blankets and dogs. Don't need no edjakashun to be Americun president!

Response to Yavin4 (Reply #41)

 

demwing

(16,916 posts)
48. Regarding foreign lands, I prefer Hawaii
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 05:11 PM
Jun 2016

Does anyone know if English is commonly spoken there?

brush

(53,742 posts)
28. His father was from Germany. Belgium borders it.
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 02:21 PM
Jun 2016

Seems he would know that just from visiting his old man's home country.

Or maybe . . .

Wait, what?

Do you think it's possible he's never been to Europe, and he wants to be president?

God, we can't let that "know nothing and don't care" ever get close to the White House.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
49. He must have traveled, he's been wealthy
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 05:12 PM
Jun 2016

all his life. Narcissists are normally only to be interested in things as they relate to them, though, so maybe the actual names of the countries he's visited didn't qualify for notice.

leveymg

(36,418 posts)
52. All streets leading to local 4 Stars look a lot alike from the inside of an armored Mercedes Benz
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 05:23 PM
Jun 2016

Most 4 star hotels have a similar globalized interior. It's that same way with a lot of high-end restaurants. I doubt if he ever sees places any other way. He might as well have stayed in New York his entire life.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
54. Seriously, although it's hard to stay serious
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 05:35 PM
Jun 2016

about this nonsense, yes. I listened to him once early on explain very emphatically and at length that he hated being outdoors and never went outside controlled environments if he could avoid it. The campaign is ruffling his so carefully coiffed feathers temporarily, of course, but your post certainly reminded me of it.

Warpy

(111,141 posts)
63. Right, and private elevators to the penthouse suites.
Thu Jun 16, 2016, 12:47 AM
Jun 2016

Most of them are similarly overdecorated, also. Only the skyline views are slightly different from one massive metropolis to another.

leveymg

(36,418 posts)
71. Extreme wealth and the single-minded pursuit of it creates poverty of the mind
Thu Jun 16, 2016, 03:12 AM
Jun 2016

What America needs is more anti-poverty programs to alleviate such deprivation.

flamingdem

(39,308 posts)
4. If it wasn't so terrifying to think of him as potus
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 01:35 PM
Jun 2016

it would be a laugh a minute. The Donald is a freaking idiot.

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
5. Oy vey
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 01:35 PM
Jun 2016

It's definitely at least as nice as "Afghan."

This man isn't even ready for a 4th grade geography quiz, much less leader of the nation's foreign policy.

OnDoutside

(19,948 posts)
72. And Beer ! Plus it is hard to get a bad meal in a Belgian restaurant. Of course their erm Freedom
Thu Jun 16, 2016, 06:45 AM
Jun 2016

Frites & Mayo are the best too.

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
11. Belgium
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 01:39 PM
Jun 2016
Belgium is the rudest word in the Universe, yet by a strange coincidence, also the name of a country on Earth. In the Secondary Phase, it is stated as "completely banned in all parts of the Galaxy, except in one part, where they don't know what it means, and in serious screenplays."

It is used as a single-word expletive by Zaphod Beeblebrox and Ford Prefect in the film.

It was used in a presidential declaration that declared the Belcerebons of Kakrafoon Kappa unhoopy.

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
25. I started with the BBC radioplays.
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 02:14 PM
Jun 2016

Somewhere around here I have a reel-tape of the part where Marvin hums Pink Floyd after they finally land on Magrathea. They had to excise that from their subsequent tapes due to copyright infringement.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,267 posts)
29. "Do you realise that robot can hum like Pink Floyd?"
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 02:30 PM
Jun 2016

I'm a fan of the radio plays too.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6LgGIvmSce0C&pg=PT80&lpg=PT80

Ironically, Douglas Adams became a good friend of Dave Gilmour, and got a 'thanks' on The Division Bell, for thinking of the album title.

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
30. Oh, that's cool!
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 02:33 PM
Jun 2016

It's always nice to hear about artists getting along like that. The lawyers and labels are always so afraid of the least bit of infringement while the artists are like "Big deal!"

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
33. Google isn't letting me look at the links.
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 02:47 PM
Jun 2016

But I do have the book here somewhere, so I'll look it up. Adams made so many of us happy, so it's nice for someone to make him at least as happy

I may have the cassette tapes, too, because they were for airplay, and I played them on public radio here. But, I have no idea where those are in my collection, either...

suffragette

(12,232 posts)
42. Wow! Found video here
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 04:49 PM
Jun 2016
https://m.


Thanks! I wasn't aware of this. Video is very shaky up until @ 2 minute mark, then improves somewhat.

Douglas Adams left us all too soon.

suffragette

(12,232 posts)
65. I hadn't noticed! But I did notice when my bill at the grocery store
Thu Jun 16, 2016, 02:10 AM
Jun 2016

came to $42.42 a couple days ago.

Guess this is my week to find the meaning to life, the universe and everything!

suffragette

(12,232 posts)
68. I hadn't caught that either.
Thu Jun 16, 2016, 02:17 AM
Jun 2016

I don't remember the 6x9 part.

It has been all too long since I re-read those books.

Can you remind me?

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
69. This is a SPOILER for everyone who hasn't read the 5-book "trilogy" ;)
Thu Jun 16, 2016, 02:28 AM
Jun 2016

It was also in the TV show, which is probably why I remember it so well. It takes place on Earth in the past, when they discover that humans evolved from all of the human rejects of society (such as phonebox sanitizers, and politicians.) Arthur, Ford, and I can't remember who else is there and they knew that Marvin had stated that the question (because the 'answer' was 42) was imprinted on Arthur's mind.

Arthur had made up a Scrabble set to pass the time, so they used the pieces to randomly select the answer. As they pulled out the pieces, they conveniently spelled out a sentence (in order!) and it was this: What do you get when you multiply six by nine?

Completely nonsensical, which is then why they had to go to the end of the universe in the last book, which seemed to be known by others making the 'pilgrimage' there, as I recall. Marvin was with them that time

Maeve

(42,271 posts)
31. We did, too!
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 02:39 PM
Jun 2016

Someone loaned us cassette tapes, way back in the day...recorded the tv show off PBS. Have a "Don't Panic!" button around here, somewhere.

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
34. If you have a "Don't Panic!" button
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 02:50 PM
Jun 2016

does that mean you also have the computer game? I got a button in the package when I bought that, along with Don't Panic glasses (opaque black) among other humorous items, maybe even some pocket lint

I never could get past the babel-fish dispenser machine to get my babel-fish. I learned later there were like 17-steps you had to do in order to hang onto the fish and get it into your ear.

Maeve

(42,271 posts)
38. Yes and then you kept losing various lints that you had to pick up
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 04:24 PM
Jun 2016

And store in the thing your Aunt gave you. There were like five different types of lint including belly-button. But you needed them all to have both tea and no tea.

Sheesh, I'd almost forgotten the game! You had to fail repeatedly to get the clues on what you needed to do to get the fish to go in your ear so you could respond properly to the Volgon poetry...we did manage to win after more tries than a reasonable person would put up with...but who said we were reasonable?
Just keep track of your towel.

suffragette

(12,232 posts)
51. I never got far in that game. Did better in Starship Titanic.
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 05:17 PM
Jun 2016

Loved the loopy 'conversations' with Adam's creations.

dembotoz

(16,785 posts)
45. used to work in belguim wisconsin....truly not a city
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 04:56 PM
Jun 2016

hardly a village...used to be the home of allen edmonds shoes years ago....

matt819

(10,749 posts)
24. Kind of like Mateen's father
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 02:13 PM
Jun 2016

Who was born in Afghan.

My god, is it stupidity, or is he suffering from the beginnings of alzheimer's?

appalachiablue

(41,103 posts)
59. Bet Dan Quayle is still available for VP, he enjoys golf too. And is a spring chicken.
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 10:20 PM
Jun 2016

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