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Benelux?

posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 10:42pm on 10/06/2005
Michael Mee doing stand up on Paramount: Why are they called the Netherlands and not Holland? Well, as a Dutch man explained it's Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, which equals BENELUX. If you called it Holland it would have to be BEHOLUX (pronounced Bollocks with a Cork accent).

Maybe you had to be there.
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posted by [identity profile] doc-mystery.livejournal.com at 06:19pm on 11/06/2005
Whale Oil Beef Hooked!

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psst...say the above out loud three times fast.
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posted by [identity profile] braisedbywolves.livejournal.com at 03:28am on 13/06/2005
I have now been saying this all weekend in various version of what I believe the Cork accent to be, trying to get the two sides to match. I may have to hunt and trap a Cork person in order to get some sleep tonight.
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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 06:19am on 13/06/2005
Well, to be fair, it may have been only in Michael Mee's particular accent. He does claim to be from Cork, however, so I'm confident that my anecdote is covered by at least one case (and mathematically proven thereby).
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