On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 03:28:47PM +0200, Th. J. van Hoesel wrote: > > Op 20 jun. 2013, om 14:08 heeft Wendy G.A. van Dijk het volgende geschreven: > > > At 11:36 PM 6/19/2013, Damian Conway wrote: > > >> The discussion is in the Dutch Parliament and it's committees. Maybe a > > >> bit > > >> far out of reach for you.... :-) > > > > > >Not really: I do live in New Holland, after all. > > >(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Holland_%28Australia%29) > > > > > >;-) > > > > > >Damian > > > > Even though the Dutch parliament is in the province of South-Holland, that > > parliament also contains people from other provinces that are not Holland. > > Well, some are of North-Holland. Most are from elsewhere, like Gelderland > > (our largest province, where I am from), Limburg (where we live now), > > Noord-Brabant (where Liz lived for 14 years), Zeeland (where we really > > don't want to live) etc. I am so not from Holland and so happy with it... > > > > Wah, New Holland? In the Dutch parliamant? :-) > > Yeah, maybe we will finally have a 'New Holland' ourselfs if the > idiots put together the three provinces 'FlevoLand', 'Utrecht' and > 'North-Holland'... yay.... for that reason only, I would vote for a > combining off those three - but only if they would call it 'Nieuw Holland' > ... and for inhabbitants of 'North-Holland' they can still write 'NH'
FLevoland + UTrecht + noord holLAND = FLUTLAND. Abigail