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Snow Dog wrote: Sean Trane wrote: Snow Dog wrote: Belgian "bird" Typically British view on continentals! Agatha Christie (obsolete old bag writing train station mystery novels) was never too concerned about being realistical. The Sellers character was depicting French accent, too! But I suppose I had it coming after the sour puss thing! I think you should be grateful to the Great Agatha Christie for creating the only famous Belgian! Who is this Sellers character? Clouseau? Hes supposed to be French!

Yeah! I got my train station mystery novels detective mixed up , sorry! 

But Poirot was equally portrayed as ridiculous as Clouseau.  Seems to be a constant thing about English to consider continentals as inferior and subject to ridicule. Sherlock (gee I wonder what nationality he was , Potuguese maybe? ) was by no means ridiculous.

Even his side kick was probably not Welsh!

As for famous Belgian, should I start at Rubens &  Breughel , or shall I jump straight to Magritte & Delvaux...... As if we had to wait for good ol'Agatha!!!! We had Simenon and his Maigret characters: those were plausible stories....

Or maybe Merckx & Henin-Hardenne or Jacques Brel & Johnny Halliday (Philippe Smet) or Roger Trigaux (Present) & Daniel Denis (Univers Zero)......

Even if the Welsh traditionally give a hard time to the Red Devils on the football field , talent usually prevails......

Let's end it here, I propose!

SNOW DOG wrote:

Poirot is a brilliant detective based on a Belgian that Christie knew, so whers the problem......BRILLIANT Detective.....

However brilliant , he is always represented as physically ridiculous, precious and overly concerned with his moustache  - sleeps with i moustache net! not as a brilliant tall, charming Holmes.

Sherlock Holmes was a serious drug taker, hardly admirable!

And the other matter, you prove my point. I haven't heard of any of the Belgs you mentioned!

You need to read the newspapers (even the sports page would do, for Merckx and Henin), go to a few arts museum (Magritte's surrealism), listen to the radio( Brel is world reknowned that even Bowie did a song of his: Port of Amsterdam and Jimmy page recorded for Johnny), and open your progressive ears Present and Univers Zero are prime representants of RIO/ Avant-prog.

Get out of your arid hills. The Welsh group Man once yelled at the first Canterbury Fayre in 2000, that England did not even know that they had a third world country next door! I thought they were exagerating a lot , that is until I speak with you!
Or you are pulkling my leg , and I'm not even noticing it!

Oh and Clouseau is funny, thats the point. We British take the piss out of ourselves as well, don't you know! We not overly concerned about the nationality as you are it seems.

I believe Sellers makes the Brits laugh (not only the Brits ) not the character in itself which is hardly a playboy!

Sean Trane wrote: SNOW DOG wrote: Poirot is a brilliant detective based on a Belgian that Christie knew, so whers the problem......BRILLIANT Detective..... However brilliant , he is always represented as physically ridiculous, precious and overly concerned with his moustache  - sleeps with i moustache net! not as a brilliant tall, charming Holmes. Sherlock Holmes was a serious drug taker, hardly admirable! And the other matter, you prove my point. I haven't heard of any of the Belgs you mentioned! You need to read the newspapers (even the sports page would do, for Merckx and Henin), go to a few arts museum (Magritte's surrealism), listen to the radio( Brel is world reknowned that even Bowie did a song of his: Port of Amsterdam and Jimmy page recorded for Johnny), and open your progressive ears Present and Univers Zero are prime representants of RIO/ Avant-prog. Get out of your arid hills. The Welsh group Man once yelled at the first Canterbury Fayre in 2000, that England did not even know that they had a third world country next door! I thought they were exagerating a lot , that is until I speak with you! Or you are pulkling my leg , and I'm not even noticing it! Oh and Clouseau is funny, thats the point. We British take the piss out of ourselves as well, don't you know! We not overly concerned about the nationality as you are it seems. I believe Sellers makes the Brits laugh (not only the Brits ) not the character in itself which is hardly a playboy!

Aw man I love Poirot, but nowhere is it suggested that he is typical of all Belgians!!!! No one would believe it. He is who he is despite his nationality. Hes a bit of a tresure really!

I was exagerating BTW, Of course I've heard of Magritte!!! I love his work, one of my favourites ( he has some work in our Museum)