Geoff Howard wrote:
>
> Sylvain Wallez wrote:
> > [this is really off-topic now]
> >
> > Thibault Cantegrel wrote:
> >
> >> Sylvain Wallez wrote:
> >
> > <snip/>
> >
> >>> Bertrand explains a well known child group game in french-speaking
> >>> countries which is names "Jacques a dit", which
> translates to "Jack
> >>> said": you must do what follows "Jacques a dit", but must
> absolutely
> >>> no do it otherwise. If you fail to do it right, you quit the game.
>
> By the way, in our part of the world, this is called "Simon
> says". No
> idea who "Simon" is.
>
And the dutch would say about that "Joost mag het weten" ("Only Joost
knows" or more freely "God only knows", not implying Joost is God of
course, any Joost that is) Joost is just somebody's first name, nobody
knows who exactly. Kinda like Simon or God really. Uhm, perhaps I should
shut up now ;-)
Unico
