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by jag78 » Sat, 15 Oct 2005 4:56 pm
Does anyone know how did the name 'flying dutchman' come about?
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by stefania » Sat, 15 Oct 2005 5:18 pm
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by jag78 » Sat, 15 Oct 2005 7:56 pm
Thanks stefania

great link...
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by dot dot dot » Sun, 16 Oct 2005 12:58 pm
good link indeed! I didnot know the full story as in that link, great read and it adds to my 'cultural identity' awareness... 8)
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by stefania » Sun, 16 Oct 2005 4:17 pm
True it's a good link, i just typed Flying Dutchman into a search engine and got that. If you look at the top of the page, you'll see A B C D etc and read up on other legends and mythical creatures and even religions in that occultpedia. Really interesting stuff.
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by banana » Sun, 16 Oct 2005 4:53 pm
Hear the collective "ohhhhhhh" from morning radio listeners.
Ohhhhhhhhhh
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by Carpe Diem » Sun, 16 Oct 2005 5:04 pm
banana wrote:Hear the collective "ohhhhhhh" from morning radio listeners.
Ohhhhhhhhhh
Stop wasting bytes on the server. If we continue this kind of behaviour, it will need upgrading soon.
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by banana » Sun, 16 Oct 2005 5:29 pm
Sounds like a HDB initiative. Guess when in Rome...
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by KT » Wed, 19 Oct 2005 1:50 pm
yea ... legend has it , there was a dashing young dutch bloke that travelled village after village town after town ... he gave women a hell of a romantic evening but as dawn approached... before they knew it , he was gone .... they called him the flying dutchman....
ofcoz there are other stories like the ship and captian and blah blah ....
jag78 wrote:Does anyone know how did the name 'flying dutchman' come about?
"El tango no está en los pies. Está en el corazón."
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by dot dot dot » Wed, 19 Oct 2005 2:57 pm
KT wrote:yea ... legend has it , there was a dashing young dutch bloke that travelled village after village town after town ... he gave women a hell of a romantic evening but as dawn approached... before they knew it , he was gone .... they called him the flying dutchman....
ofcoz there are other stories like the ship and captian and blah blah ....
jag78 wrote:Does anyone know how did the name 'flying dutchman' come about?
He is in Singapore now, lives around east coast... 8)
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by KT » Wed, 19 Oct 2005 3:03 pm
Good you came clear on ya own Eric ... i wasnt going to name names , but i think we all knew who it was
Eric from the Netherlands wrote:KT wrote:yea ... legend has it , there was a dashing young dutch bloke that travelled village after village town after town ... he gave women a hell of a romantic evening but as dawn approached... before they knew it , he was gone .... they called him the flying dutchman....
ofcoz there are other stories like the ship and captian and blah blah ....
jag78 wrote:Does anyone know how did the name 'flying dutchman' come about?
He is in Singapore now, lives around east coast... 8)
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by Baron Greenback » Wed, 19 Oct 2005 3:48 pm
Except on Sunday morning when Eric is cooking bacon & eggs then he is the frying dutchman -boom boom!
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