OFF: Tall Dutch

[Mike Parkington]

Tall Dutch

Apparently this is due to good old natural selection (Darwin & all that) it
seems that Tulips like many flowers give off a scent, although the scent
given off by tulips is beyond the capability of the human nose to detect
(kind of like a supersonic smell) it is quite strong.

A chemical analysis of the scent-group reveals amongst the usual complex
organic compounds traces of chemo-sterilins, basically fertility affecting
organo-compounds. Exposure to these leads to a drop in sperm count amongst
the males of the population. Exposure is of course heavier in shorter
people as they are nearer the source of the chemo-sterilins. This in turn
leads to higher fertility in tall people as opposed to that of shorter
people. Due to the concentration coefficients involved, the relative
fertility's are not linear either. For each 5cm shorter a person is than
their taller counterpart they are 23.7 percent less fertile.

Hence, in Holland people are tall.


Hope this is of interest.

Mike P

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From:   Daniel Wikdahl[SMTP:mpj95wid at MC.HIK.SE]
Sent:   09 September 1997 21:40
To:     Multiple recipients of list BOC-L
Subject:        Re: OFF:  Needle Moose and tall people

I wrote:
>> is smaller than the American version. But everything is bigger overthere
>> -the trees, the moose, the bears, the people, the cars etc -so maybe the
>> US/Canadian moose is called ALCES ALCES... I dunno... )

theo says:

>Well, i'm up for another geography lesson...First off, i know that
>Daniel, Christian and Jon AREN'T Dutch.  And I can't speak for
>Scandinavia, but the tallest people I ever saw were in Holland.  I
>don't think there's a person in the whole country--man or
>woman--under six feet tall.  I don't know how many cm that is, but i
>guess it's a lot.  So not everything American is bigger...

I didn't mean big as in tall...
Sweden used to have the tallest people in the world (with the exception
some obscure tribes in Africa, which seldom are count in comparisons like
this
one) but last year or so the Dutch people grew ;-) and became the tallest.
When I visited Holland this summer quite many told me this (including
Jerrys
brother... I think... I was little bit dizzy at the moment) and when I came
home again I didn't took a long time until I'd read 3-4 press items about
it
in Swedish newspapers.
I think this is a quite interresting question and really would like to
know why this has happened. I mean the living standard in Sweden are not as
high as it used to be but at the same time it's not _that_ much below what
it was before the economic crisis.
It can have something to do with the large number of immigrants that have
come
to Sweden in the 80s and the 90s.

[Only the following countries in Europe have more _refugees_
than Sweden :Bosnia, Germany, Russia, Yugoslavia (Serbia), Croatia.
After Sweden comes France and then Switzerland. And you have to keep in
mind
that Swedens native population is not big (now approx. 7.5 millions)]

[...and I hope you understand that eventhough this might sound "not
political correct" maybe even as a rascists thoughts... that is not all
what
I intended
...it's just possible explanations and the way things works...]


                        -Daniel




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