OFF TOPIC: What did Guido say?

[Gerrit Holl]

Roel Vanhout wrote:
> He says, in Dutch, literally translated: I am Guido van Rossum and I 
> imitate Woody Woodpecker (and then makes the Woody sound). The 
> background to this is that there was a program on Dutch television, 10 
> or more years ago, that was about cartoons and there was a part where 
> kids (between something like 4 and 8 years old) could imitate their 
> favourite cartoon character. They usually introduced themselves by 
> saying their name, who they were imitating, and then did the imitation. 

Another part is that the imitations were often bad; he is parodying it
by making a sound that may resemble Woody Woodpacker in some distant way :)

> It was very popular at the time - even after hearing the 1000th bad 
> imitation of Donald Duck, there was something to it. It was something of 
> a running joke at the time to imitate cartoon characters, usually 
> introduced by saying one's name, to make the connection with the tv 
> program. Can't remember what the program was called though, anyone?

I don't know.

Another one in a way more difficult language:

hee de her linus torvalds oh ja utallar linux linux ;)

:)

yours,
Gerrit.

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