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Shooting the fashion shoot

Cem_Usakligil

Well-known member
I have accidentally run into a fashion shoot with the famous Dutch stand-up comedian and TV presenter Jandino Asporaat. So I grabbed a few frames while the photographer's assistant was trying to get him to pose in a certain way.


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Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
I have accidentally run into a fashion shoot with the famous Dutch stand-up comedian and TV presenter Jandino Asporaat. So I grabbed a few frames while the photographer's assistant was trying to get him to pose in a certain way.


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Are we missing something, Cem? Is the fellow standing up the famous actor?

Asher
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
No, nothing missing. Yep, he is the one.

Well then, I do seem to be like prejudiced old chap then! I thought that being black, he was probably a more recent immigrant and more likely to be an assistant. I shouldn't think so much!

It's a nice snap. Are there more?

Asher
 

Andy brown

Well-known member
I can't say I know of any Dutch comedians (probably because my Dutch is limited to about half a dozen phrases of which fizzerrotterpuss - massive spelling apologies here- is my favourite what a classic comedic phrase in itself). The Dutch I've met have a lovely dry and advanced humour.
 

Cem_Usakligil

Well-known member
I can't say I know of any Dutch comedians (probably because my Dutch is limited to about half a dozen phrases of which fizzerrotterpuss - massive spelling apologies here- is my favourite what a classic comedic phrase in itself). The Dutch I've met have a lovely dry and advanced humour.
The Dutch do have an advanced sense of humour, not that much different from that of British humour. We are one of the countries where BBC is watched very intensively.

That "fizzerrotterpuss" doesn't ring any bells for me I'm afraid. Did they tell you what it was supposed to mean?
 

Doug Kerr

Well-known member
Hi, Cem,

Easter bunny = paashaas
Pubic hair = schaamhaar
Collector = verzamelaar

Put together: paashazenschaamhaarverzamelaar, lol

And interesting composite term, now part of my vocabulary whenever I need it. An opportunity will no doubt present itself here.

I had never recognized that "paas" meant "Easter", although it is an obvious cognate with other words of the same meaning (such as the familiar adjective "paschal": "pertaining to Easter").

And now I remember that in my childhood the most prominent brand of packets of dye for coloring Easter eggs was "Paas".

These etymological discoveries continue to visit me, to my great joy. I member many years ago when I recognized simultaneously the interlocking etymology of "callipygious" (explained as meaning "having a beautiful rear end"), "calligraphy" (thus "beautiful writing"), "steatopygous" (having a fat rear end" which I had seen in perhaps National Geographic as description some group of people), and finally "steatite" ("soapstone", a mineral used as electrical insulation, whose soapy feeling seemed to somebody as "fat-like", although I did not know of its etymology until this etymological chain appeared to me).

Language is one of our most wondrous toys!

Best regards,

Doug
 
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