Ha ha ...
is Mieke one of them?

Francette

NO. I minded the writing part.

Francette

It's not my ambition that Arnon would write about me or my family. And until now there is little reason why Arnon should spend a few lines about me in a column . I want to keep it that way.

The first criteria was "every familymember's name should start with a different letter"? Otherwise it will be too difficult to read:
"K. said: "Please, K., go and tell your mother that K. won't be spending the night in our room." K. had met a lovely boy with a tattoo on his ankle."

@ Arnon

Beware BBQ! could indeed reach that degree of danger...
Francette

@Mieke

I see

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Arnon

Don't forget to whine from the back seat "Are we nearly there yet". No proper holiday without a fight between parents and children. What a pity that kids can't get a sunstroke in those air-conditioned cars anymore. You could try vomitting down the driver's neck instead.

@Mieke

Mieke,
How do you do this technically? to remove entirely a comment after the 5 (?) minutes I mean
Francette

Arnon:

I find it rather interesting that so many families wanted to take you. Did your personality make such a striking impression on them? Do they want you as an intellectual guest for serious evening discussions? Or would they take any 'Famous Dutchman' on their holidays?
I'm also interested in your grounds for selecting one of the families.

Francette

You have 15 minutes to edit the -last- comment you made. As you can see in the line under Mieke's comment she removed it only two minutes after submitting the original comment. So there is no magic and, yes, you can too..

In case you missed the link, it is under the comment for as long as you can edit. After that it automatically disappears. Testing that was fun ;-)

And removing a comment is no more complex than just removing all the text and then clicking OK.

@Sander

Thank you, Sander
After 15 minutes can we still mail to you to delete a nasty comment?

@Sander

Thank you, Sander
After 15 minutes can we still mail to you to delete a nasty comment?

@Sander

Thank you, Sander
After 15 minutes can we still mail to you to delete a nasty comment?

@Sander

Sorry for the triple post ;-) my notebook connection works funny today!

Arnon

Which did you choose? The exhibitionists, the family bored to death by themselves, the lonely, the debt-ridden, the ones you suspect may have a body buried in their back garden, the attention whores, the just plain whores, the swingers, the child beaters, the ones who want to make an "honest family man" out of you? Or worse?

@ Juliane

The other MOM & POP (these with buttons i.p.v eyes) would surely buy him a DVD reader and some kid's stuff to keep him still and non-vomiting.
I don't know why: I like your idea of AG vomiting in the neck of the guy. Not too "grof" -grossier- to begin a story?
Francette

@ Arnon

Arnon.. where are you going in fine with your petparents, brothers, sisters & doggies ?
I wonder why we do see you, more the girls I admit- as a petkid here.
Other scenarii: babysitter, uncle, friend, amant (won't last long, this holiday), undercover writer, were-rabbit?
What would it be?
Francette

Imagine Arnon in desperated need of the bathroom after it was used by the mother with "El tourista" who hadn't the time to clean it up.

@ Mieke

YOUCH... Stop it please, I just feel like vomiting right now
Francette

Francette

To prove your point you started spamming the site?

We won't just remove comments. If you post them for more than 15 minutes apparently you had something to say. But that doesn't mean you can't try to convince us, in case the comment is really damaging or potentially dangerous.

Spamming????

@Sander
Not at all, I really get a problem with posting & Wifi disconnection - too much use of the "OK" button then, I suppose- I was myself amazed to see how many times my post appeared and try to correct it but for the first three ones, it was too late. It was not a test, I know you tell the truth
Sincerely sorry, mes excuses
Francette

Francette

No worries. I proved that it is hard to talk and wink online without using emoticons. I was joking. No need to apologize.

I thought the site filters duplicates. Apparently not. Will look into that.

mr arnon

you're really everywhere,i hope my hunger stays.

Carlos

I haven't made up my mind.

Happy snipperdag

Try not to work too hard.

@Arnon
Now you have to vote…

sam drukker

Beste Arnon,
Misschien een beetje vreemde manier om contact te zoeken, maar ik heb een vraag aan jou namens Sam Drukker. Je hebt ooit in opdracht van het JHM een lithomap "Voor het nageslacht" met tekst van jou en litho's van Sam Drukker gemaakt. Sam krijgt in oktober 2010 een overzichtstentoonstelling in museum Het Tongerlohuys in Roosendaal. Oud en nieuw werk zal getoond worden en ook de gehele lithomap met tekst. De tentoonstelling gaat, naast een globaal overzicht, ook over het woord, of eigenlijk het woord staat het kijken in de weg, een pleidooi voor streven naar onafhankelijk kijken. De opening van deze tentoonstelling is op zondag 10 oktober en Sam zou het erg leuk vinden en wil je vragen of je zijn tentoonsteliing zou willen openen. Zou je met mij tel 06 51351255 (ik ben zijn assistent) of met Sam tel 06 29060057 contact op kunnen nemen of is er misschien een andere manier om je deze vraag te kunnen stellen. Ik hoop van je te horen.
Met vriendelijke groet,
Mieke Verdegaal