Question box

On this page, I try to give an open and honest answer on some common questions. If you have a burning question yourself, mail it to Ruud.

Dear Ruud,

I saw your picture and was wondering, is that your natural hair color or did you paint it red?

Ruud: Mee, mee, mee.

Dear Ruud,

You are 1.90 meters tall and weigh only 70 kg. What is your secret?

Ruud: Eat whatever you like, but don't swallow anything. No seriously, I have no idea. I guess I was born with a mouse stomach.

Dear Ruud,

I go cycling a lot too, but for some reason I'm always up against the wind. How come?

Ruud: That's funny, I always ride with the wind in my back. (Did we run into each other already? :-) Sometimes I see people sit on their bikes like a nodding-donkey. Even when there's no wind they are still working out with all of their body. People like that make their own wind. Cycling is something you do with your legs, not with your arms. Let your legs do the job and leave your arms to rest. That will save you a lot of energy.

Dear Ruud,

When dancing, how do you keep yourself from stepping on your partner's toes?

Ruud: Make sure your partner is not directly opposite of you, but a little to the side. Your partner should be standing in front of your right leg. Don't look at your feet and don't try to stand further away from your partner, this only makes it worse. Instead, try standing closer to each other, now you can step beside or even beyond your partner's feet instead of on top of them. If it still happens, don't panic. There's nothing wrong with stepping on someone's toes. Just as long as you don't completely trample them, that is.

Dear Ruud,

When dancing, my partner always tries to take over the lead. What can I do about this?

Ruud: Do as I did: follow 400 dancing lessons with 13 or more different partners over a period of 7 years. Then return to your own partner and notice the difference. If that would take you too long, you might consider buying a whip.

Dear Ruud,

What's with the dancing dicks on the top right of your main page?

Ruud: Don't be a smart ass. You don't even have one yourself, so what would you know about that?

Hi Rude,
I have two questions:

I noticed that you have an English version for everything, even for the question box. That must have been a hard day's work translating everything. My question is: does it work the other way as well? UND WENN GIBT ES DIE DEUTSCHE VERSION???

Who's that guy that keeps asking you these stupid questions? You are most surely visitor number one, I was visitor number two, so....

Bye,
Bor Salp, a.k.a. The Cleaner

Ruud:

Making these pages bilingual isn't too hard for a liguistic schizo. But sometimes I leave the original unaffected, as I did in this case (check out the Dutch version). Yes, I have been thinking about a German version. Unfortunately my German does not stretch much further than 'He du Eddie, steckt die Kanonen weg, sonnst knallt es' (hurray for those dubbed westerns). I could do with some experienced translators. Are you interested? NA - WAS SAGEN SIE?
To be honest you're the first real human (?) being on this page. Even I'm not real. Didn't you see my picture? And did you really think there would be anyone who would want to ask me any questions?

Happy cleaning!

Houwdy,
Nou, k'heb je site eens bekeken en t'zieter leuk uit.
Toch nog een opmerking, "Dancing. Grab your gal and hit the floor." Vinden die meiden dat nu wel goed dat je meteen samen op de grond gaat liggen?
"Computers. Big or small, I like 'em all". Precies, alleen heb je bijna een doodzonde begaan, want je heb *LINUX* niet genoemd als HET BESTE OPERATING SYSTEEM TER WERELD ALLER TIJDEN. Misschien dat dat eventjes aan je aandacht ontglipt was. K'dacht zeghet maar even.
Het wordt dus tijd dat ik ook maar eens een pagina ga maken. Als ik die van jullie zie kan ik in ieder geval het vol zetten met links :-)
Waar is je Lucky Luck pagina gebleven?

Groetjes,
Henk

Ruud:

There's still a lot you have to learn about dancing, Henk. If you ask kindly, a lady shouldn't refuse to go onto the floor with you, but of course there are some limits...
Oops, you're right, not a word about Linux on my pages. Alright, to make up just a little: Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux.
Too bad, but most of those Lucky Luke pages were lost. The saloon and the casino have disappeared to the eternal bitfields. I only managed to save those morbid undertaker pages. These are now stored on my WebJump page, have a look.

And yes, I do like lots of links. Count on it that there will be a link to your page as well, as soon as I know the address!

Ha die Ruud,
na het bezoeken van jouw homepage voelde ik mij geroepen door te geven welk restaurant je beslist moet opnemen in je lijst: De Bastille in Delft. Kres en ik hebben er twee keer gegeten en het is tot nu toe onze grootste favoriet! Wij moeten er ook maar eens met z'n vieren heen gaan. Ben je er trouwens ooit geweest? Ook nog bedankt voor je kerstkaart.

Groetjes Inge.

(Quick translation: Inge says I should check out a restaurant called De Bastille in Delft.)

Ruud: No, never been there, I'm curious. At the moment my favourite is Dionysos, a Greek restaurant at the Schouwburgplein in Rotterdam. (Don't tell anyone, or everybody will be wanting to go there.)

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