Who's going to drive it? You? You can't even tell quim from bum, rent
boy!

The Re'vr''ndd wrote:

On 19 Sep 2006 07:05:54 -0700,

Yup, and with all those surplus leather drive belts, they should have
beat you with..

You need running over with a Daf truck, Billy boy. Then some other
nigga can pick up the road kill. LOL

The Re'vr''ndd wrote:

On 17 Sep 2006 21:36:57 -0700,

I already knew that, your fluffness..

Did you know the Daf 66 became the model for the Volvo 300 series,
Billy boy?

The Re'vr''ndd wrote:

On 17 Sep 2006 11:39:43 -0700,

No wonder they don't make Dafs anymore!

Dafs became Volvos, Billy boy.

Heinrich wrote:

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -

Most of us are taller than our parents, who probably are taller than their
parents. But in the Netherlands, the generational progression has reached
new heights.

In the last 150 years, the Dutch have become the tallest people on Earth -
and experts say they're still getting bigger. It is a tale of a nation's
health and wealth.

Prosperity propelled the collective growth spurt that began in the mid-1800s
and was only interrupted during the harsh years of the Nazi occupation in
the 1940s - when average heights actually declined.

With their protein-rich diet and a national health service that pampers
infants, the Dutch are standing taller than ever. The average Dutchman
stands just over 6 feet, while women average nearly 5-foot-7.

Ask Pieter Gijselaar about the problems of the very tall.

At more than 6-feet-10 1/2, he spends a lot of time ducking through doorways
and guarding against minor head injuries. In an economy-class airline seat,
he only fits in the emergency exit row. He had to have the seat of his
Volkswagen Golf specially fitted and blocks put under the legs to raise his
office desk.

But Gijselaar, a 28-year-old real estate agent, says he has it easier than
his father, who is 6-foot-5.

"Buying clothes and shoes is not a problem anymore. You can always find
stores that sell large sizes," he said. "But it's not cheap. I don't get any
discounts off the rack."

Though people tend to stare, Gijselaar says being head, shoulders and trunk
above everyone else makes an impression. "People don't forget me. If you
meet me a year from now, you'll remember who I am."

The Dutch were not noted for their height until recently. It was only in the
1950s that they passed the Americans, who stood tallest for most of the last
200 years, said John Komlos, a leading expert on the subject who is
professor of economic history at the University of Munich in Germany. He
said the United States has now fallen behind Denmark.

Many Dutch are much taller than average. So many, in fact, that four years
ago the government adjusted building codes to raise the standards for door
frames and ceilings. Doors must now be 7-feet, 6 1/2-inches high.

For years, the Dutch national air carrier had an agreement with the Tall
People's Club to give preference to club members for front seats with extra
leg room. The airline scrapped the deal last year because of complaints of
discrimination by more normal-sized people, club spokesman Paul van Sprundel
said.

Though that was a setback, the national railway did ask the club to try out
seats for new railway cars.

"More and more people are becoming aware of our needs," Van Sprundel said.

The club has a membership of 2,000 individuals and families, or about 4,500
people including children. But Van Sprundel said the requirements are
minimal, to conform with similar clubs in other countries - about 6-foot-3
for men and 5-foot-11 for women.

By those standards, he estimates about 800,000 people would qualify in this
country of 16 million.

It wasn't always this way.

In 1848, one man out of four was rejected by the Dutch military because he
was shorter than 5-foot-2. Today, fewer than one in 1,000 is that short.

George Maat, an anthropologist at Leiden University Medical Center, cites a
study done in 1861 correlating the height of conscripts to the availability
and price of rye, then the main food crop. One year after a poor crop, the
number of men rejected as too short shot up.

Height appears to come naturally with the territory. Two thousand years ago,
the men of the Low Countries stood about 5-foot-9 - tall for the age - and
were enlisted as guards for the Roman emperor, Maat said.

Average heights declined over the next 1,800 years as food supply failed to
keep pace with population growth and people moved into disease-ridden
cities, said Maat. He spoke from his office, cluttered with leg bones and
skulls, overlooking a grassy quadrangle that is the burial site of thousands
killed by plague in 1635.

Even during the 17th century, when Amsterdam was the world's richest city,
wealth was concentrated in the hands of a few merchants and average height
did not increase.

It took until World War I for the Dutch to regain the 4 inches they lost
over two millennia.

As lifestyles improve, Maat said the average height of a Dutch man could
reach 6-foot-3 within 50 years. The influx of immigrants from North Africa
may slow the growth rate, but their descendants could catch up in a few
generations.

But wealth doesn't explain everything. Scandinavians, who are among the
world's tallest people at 6 feet, are not getting taller on average,
apparently hitting their genetic glass ceiling.

"With better food, Pygmies will increase in height, but you will never make
Dutchmen out of them. It's just not there in the genes," Maat said.

"Since we are still on the move, we don't know where it's going to end," he
said. "It's upward, yes, but how far upward we don't know."

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