Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site prlb2.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!prlb2!ronse From: ronse@prlb2.UUCP (Ronse) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: True Belgian story Message-ID: <356@prlb2.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Nov-84 15:30:29 EST Article-I.D.: prlb2.356 Posted: Fri Nov 16 15:30:29 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Nov-84 20:18:44 EST Organization: PHILIPS Research Laboratory Brussels Lines: 29 Note for Americans (necessary to understand the joke): In Belgium there is a national dispute involving Dutch-speaking Flanders and French-speaking Wallonia and Brussels. My father had a cousin, Jan Ronse, who was a hardline Flemish activist. One day his daughter married a black man from the Island of Reunion. It caused a drama in the family. Do you know why? ? ? ? ? ? Because the black man was French-speaking instead of Dutch-speaking! ! !