--- On Sat, 21/3/09, Tim Bray <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Tim Bray <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [silk] Introduction - New Member
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Saturday, 21 March, 2009, 10:32 AM
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Ravi
> Bellur <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I was born in the US to an Indian dad from Bangalore
> and a Danish mom.
>
> This is a true story. One time I was in Helsingør,
> AKA Hamlet's
> hometown, at a technology conference, and I was single, and
> I met a
> comely young Danish woman, also single who looked at me
> That Way, and
> thought there might be something there, but I couldn't
> pronounce her
> first name and she didn't think that was cute, so I got
> nowhere. I
> recognize that having a Danish mom doesn't make this your
> fault, but
> I'm still bitter.
>
> -Tim
Oh dear.
Quite trying, what?
Fortunately, by the time Danes crossed my bows, especially the females of the
species, I was in a permanent relationship. However, the hazards to single
males is clear and prominent.
I deeply sympathise, from a safe distance.
The factor that got home, however, was the beyond-English sense of humour the
whole damn place has. It was totally unexpected and left me in a state of
shock. I thought the Dutch were amusing; the Danes were truly in the groove.
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