Re: SPOILERS _ Christmas/New Year

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 22:04:30 +0100, The Hoopeses
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>martin wrote:
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>> On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 21:36:50 +0100, The Hoopeses
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>>>martin wrote:
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>> Do you mean that the ones who left the Netherlands were English and
>> not Dutch?
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>When you look at the names, they were English, and they spoke English. 

So they were English people who had moved to Leiden and Delft and
didn't fit in there either?

>Meanwhile, the folks in what's now New York were indeed Dutch.  I went 
>to school with kids with Dutch family names.
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>>>What's interesting is how much beer those Puritans could consume.
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>> Look south :-)
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>I'm just thinking of how *puritanical* people now think the New 
>Englanders were.  They brewed beer and consumed it in massive 
>quantities, and it didn't matter how old you were.  Maybe they 
>questioned the quality of the water.  I guess tea hadn't caught on yet. :-)

I expect it was low alcohol stuff like English and Munich beer.
Question the quality of the water? That's a good excuse :-)
-- 
Martin