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[poliphilo]

 Talking about tall young men, I'm told the tallest people in the world are the Dutch. I found it hard to credit. My view of the Dutch is that they're the Europeans who are most like the English, they've produced more good painters than any small nation has a right to and they eat a lot of cheese.  I raised my children on a story about a cow who accidentally travelled down the canal on a raft and got off in a town where they were selling piles of those round cheeses with the red rind. Cheese makes you fat not tall, doesn't it? Also I was briefly in love with a Dutch girl. Her name was Wilhelmina and she was decidedly shorter than me. 

But yesterday we had a big delivery and the delivery driver had an accent and his head all but scraped the ceiling. I asked him where he was from and he said The Netherlands- so now I'm a believer.....

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[cmcmck]

I knew Belgian guys who towered over me although that isn't difficult! :o)

[poliphilo]

I've been to the Low Countries and I can't remember noticing that people were uncommonly tall. Is this a new thing or am I just unobservant?

[paserbyp]

More details about love story with Wilhelmina, please?

[flemmings]

I had a Dutch roommate who was 6 ft, and she was the runt of her four sisters. The tallest was 6'6.

Mind, the Germans are no slouches in that department either. And unlike the Dutch, the ones I met were broad in proportion. Walking walls, basically.

[poliphilo]

My delivery guy yesterday was probably 6" 6' or over. I should have asked.....

[poliphilo]

Not much to say. It was pretty one-sided. She was cute and fun-loving. We met in Switzerland.