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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
Even here in NZ, my great aunts were busy knitting socks to send to the flooded Dutch people.
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Well, it
is named after the province where the worst of the floods happened …
(More than once, I’ve been asked: “The .nl in your e-mail address, is that New Zealand?” To which I tend to reply, “No, but I am from the province that that country is named after” — which of course puzzles them even more
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