[Rockhounds] Unknown Artifact

[Axel Emmermann]

Yes the saxophone. We Belgians are font of sophisticated hooters.
We are painfully aware of the beer situation.
It's all because the Walloons drink too little of it.

Still no snow here but we're looking at a nasty cold spell for the week-end.

Axel

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> Namens John Siebel
> Verzonden: zondag 21 december 2008 22:43
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> Onderwerp: Re: [Rockhounds] Unknown Artifact
> 
> The Saxophone!!!  I AM impressed! It's amazing that you guys get so much
> done and yet remain 7th in per capita beer consumption.
> 
> John
> Trying to catch up :-)
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Axel Emmermann" <axel.emmermann at pandora.be>
> 
> > It's 4cm Axel, not 4 inches.
> 
> [Axel] Oops, my mistake...
> 
> > And I'm really surprised that you didn't crow
> > about the fact that a Belgian invented Bakelite!
> 
> [Axel] Aw, bakelite, the big bang theory by Msgr LeMaître, the saxophone
by
> Adolphe Sax, asphalt roads by Edward de Smedt, Mercator maps for
navigation,
> Solvay process fo making sodium bicarbonate, fist anatomy book by
Vesalius,
> the body mass index by Quetelet, Spark-ignited combustion for coal gas
> engines by Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir, in 1899 a Belgian (Camille Jenatzy)
> built electric racing car called "La Jamais Contente" set a world record
for
> land speed, ......
> 
> We try to stay modest so we forfeit a few opportunities to remind the
world
> how good we are...  (LOL, no... make that ROFLMAO)
> 
> Axel
> 
> 
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