Re: [LogiLogi-list] Netherlands and Uruguay

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Wybo Wiersma <ma...@wy...> wrote:
>
> And we have lost after a nerve wrecking 115 minutes... If only it had
> gotten to penalties... Anyhow, the Netherlands has done better than
> ever before in it's history. And apart from our attempt to turn
> football into a card-game, it was not a shamefull loss... (the
> Netherlands used to be quite gentle players, but I guess we learned a
> bit at/for this World Cup ;-)

It was a very tight game, I guess you all enjoyed very much this world
cup! congratz anyway.

>
> Did you know that the Netherlands used to be a 'colony' of Spain, just
> like Uruguay? We had our war of independence in an 80-years war
> between 1568 and 1648 (but this seems mostly forgotten now...).

Didn't know that... it seems our countries share a lot in common hu??
You know, our current president had used Netherlands as an example to
follow many times. Many "gerrilla" uruguayans went over NL during
dictatorship here, and many of them are in the government now and so
they some how have NL society model very high prestige.

>
>> Paul the octopus said Spain will win, but, you'll prove him wrong...
>> after all it's just an octopus!!!
>
> I guess fried octopus is going to be a popular dish in the
> Netherlands :-)

It's incredible how simple probability can get through and be right each match!

>
> Cool. Indeed I think we should get back on topic soon.

Great, I'll slowly start to get back to track. I'll answer your other mail soon.

Greetings
-- 
Bruno