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Originally Posted by morsk

Jean Claude Vanne Dame, Audrey Hepburn and Plastic Bertram. Jack De bleedin Loures. And that bird who won a Bronze for swimming at the Olympics. No googleing now...... anymore for anymore?

Herge - who wrote that Tintin crap you had to sit through waiting for Danger Mouse to come on.

Originally Posted by brummieboy1

Are you implying that Tin Tin wasn't a real person, I'm shocked.

Hershay? Was he the Tin Tin bloke? He would count as a famous Belgian. Don't they/didn't they have kings or something too? Never really cared for Belgian history. As a wise man once said "As countries go, it makes a good battlefield."

Originally Posted by morsk

Hershay? Was he the Tin Tin bloke? He would count as a famous Belgian. Don't they/didn't they have kings or something too? Never really cared for Belgian history. As a wise man once said "As countries go, it makes a good battlefield."

I think we only invented the place because the Brits, Germans and French needed an away venue. My one experience of the Belgian Army showed that the Walloon and the Fleming assigned as liaison officers for the ex were great fun individually, but best kept apart

I blame the King of Spain, but at least they make nice beer and, erm, lace.

Originally Posted by Brotherton Lad

I blame the King of Spain, but at least they make nice beer and, erm, lace.

Chips, and some people like Jaque Brel.

Leopold II, King of the Belgians, a guy who laid claim to the Congo and ran it for his own benefit with no thought of the well-being of the natives. The Brits get a lot of grief from certain quarters about their administration in Africa during the bad old days of the scramble for empire, but the Belgians were much worse.

Leopold II (French: Léopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor, Dutch: Leopold Lodewijk Filips Maria Victor) (9 April 1835 – 17 December 1909) was the second king of the Belgians. Born in Brussels the second (but eldest surviving) son of Leopold I and Louise-Marie of Orléans, he succeeded his father to the throne on 17 December 1865 and remained king until his death.

Leopold is chiefly remembered as the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State, a private project undertaken by the King. He used Henry Morton Stanley to help him lay claim to the Congo, an area now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Powers at the Berlin Conference agreed to set up the Free State in 1885, on the condition that the inhabitants were to be brought into the modern world and that all nations be allowed to trade freely. From the beginning, however, Leopold essentially ignored these conditions and ran the Congo brutally, by proxy through a mercenary force, for his own personal gain. He extracted a personal fortune from the Congo, initially by the collection of ivory, and after a rise in the price of rubber in the 1890s by forcing the native population to collect sap from rubber plants. His harsh regime was directly or indirectly responsible for the death of millions of people.

The Congo became one of the most infamous international scandals of the early 20th century, and Leopold was ultimately forced to relinquish control of it to the government of Belgium.

Originally Posted by trowel

Chips, and some people like Jaque Brel.

I like Juaque Brel. Always thought he was French tho.... Im kind of glad hes Belgian though....

Originally Posted by morsk

Jean Claude Vanne Dame, Audrey Hepburn and Plastic Bertram. Jack De bleedin Loures. And that bird who won a Bronze for swimming at the Olympics.

No googleing now...... anymore for anymore?

A calf born in a stable will never be a horse.