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01-07-2006, 10:40 AM | #31 | |
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Reminds me - ask anyone to name 10 famous Belgians and few get past two - and then even one of them turns out to be a fictional character. Any takers...?
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01-07-2006, 11:16 AM | #32 |
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I can get past 2 because of art history classes ( Jan van Eyck, *cough*van Dyck and Peter Paul Rubens), but no where near 10. The inventor of the saxophone, Something Sax, was flemmish too though, wasn't he? (off to google)
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01-08-2006, 10:54 AM | #33 |
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belgians are like the canadians of europe......they don't really count, and no one cares.
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Best French singers : Jacques Brel and Jean-Philippe Smet, well known as Johnny Halliday, rock singer (David Halliday's father if US people know him) Merckx Eddy (cyclist), Georges Simenon (writer, "Maigret"), Justine Hennin, Kim Clijsters (Tennis), a lot of famous singers, actors, comics "designers ?" in French language... I was going to forget "the cherry on the cake" : Jean-Claude Van Damme !!! Quote:
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01-08-2006, 01:46 PM | #35 |
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Having that list doesn't really help. I don't think "famous in Belgium" counts.
Wasn't "Belgium" a really horrid curse word in HHTG?
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01-08-2006, 05:10 PM | #36 |
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HHTG ??? I don't understand
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01-08-2006, 05:24 PM | #37 |
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03-14-2006, 02:23 AM | #39 | |
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03-16-2006, 08:08 AM | #40 |
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So is nearly everyone else. I dig his chops, though. Sweet. Shame the recording equipment was primitive. I sometimes weep over the about of music that we've lost because of our inability to capture it.
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03-16-2006, 09:59 AM | #41 |
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I know Reinhardt, but I thought he was French. Here's a philosophical and unanswerable question: would he have played as well or had such a distinctive sound if he'd had all his fingers?
I also like Grappelli who played with him a bit. Trivia: Grapelli played on one of the songs on Paul Simon's first solo album.
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03-17-2006, 01:31 PM | #42 |
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He was born in Belgium, but he was a Gypsy. He doesn't have a nationality, beyond being a Rom, as I understand it.
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04-01-2006, 09:13 AM | #43 |
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News and photos of the London event :
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