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| The Môge Club in Venice summer 1984 on the one place we belong: The rubbish-dump. front row: Bernard and Ruurd. last row: Jan and Ben. A typical Môge-club scene. |
| General: Welcome on this website under construction of the Môge Club! Our Club has been founded in Rotterdam in the Netherlands winter '79/'80 by Jan and Ruurd, together with Albert Einstein they formed the later management-team, an overview: Management: chairman: Albert Einstein (see photo's to the left for all these items) treasurer: Jan. secretary-general: Ruurd, the management-team meets ones in a while at a 'Môge-club management meeting' and decides on important issues such as the status of members, candidate members and such. Full-Members: Bernard and Ben, the four of us formed the original Môge-club. The management-team has meetings with all full-members on a regular basis to inform them of the wise decisions of the management-team and to give the full-members a chance to come up with their ideas and wishes regarding 'Môge-club affairs'. Candidate-members: Tom, Kees, Jan M (a photo of a neo-member drinking wine to the left)., Jurek and Myrek. Honorarily-member: The late Dutch Queen Wilhelmina, send all scum to the mines!! Royal Highness Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, Môge! All basis principles are written down in the regulations or 'statuten' of the Môge-club, if you want to study them now do not hesitate. Click on the button to the left and study them carefully. The word Môge itselve means Goodmorning and is used when our glasses with beer or German Spatläse are raised. The management can easily be identified by means of scars on several fingers as a result of breaking glas while saying: ...Môge...!! Then we will say loud and clear: MOGE!!!!!!!!!! Not only in the Netherlands but also in several other west and east-European countries local committies are formed to promote local Môge-club thoughts. The Polish division is very active thanks to the inspiring leadership of Jurek who leads all Polish members from his home town of Radom. Goals: Our aim is to promote the MC feeling all over the world, but what is this feeling? The MC feeling can best be described as a sence of perfect happiness caused by several reasons. First it's a combination of being together with your best friends who you know so well and went through a lot of adventures combined with truck-loads of Spatläse and listening to the sound of dreamin' music all night long. Secondly during such a day, and living from one clear moment to an other, we like to visit places where you can 'soak up the memory of events long past'. Usually dead places from the great war or the world war, especially places behind the (former) iron-curtain, or places with a high Môge-club value (see Moge-club trips). As you can read most of the time we live in the past...anyway, it's a good way to escape from reality ones in a while. See a picture of a typical Môge-club meeting to the left. Môge-club trips: At least once a year the members of the MC meet eachother and have fun, here is a list 'so far': 1981: Port Leucate (France), when we met f.e. Aline Denayrou with her boyfriend Dominique Hagnarel, Sabine Watremez, Samia Dahel from Quelma Algeria and a boy named Marc ? who probably lived in Ridderkerk (NL). Aline worked at the butchery of her boyfriend's father in Port Leucate, where are they now? Her father in law drove a Lada with platenumber 2688 SU 91. We also met the civilized sisters Mosselman (Helene, Machteld and last but not least Liesbeth!). The sisters Mosselman also joined our desert-gala in the Bergse Bos nearby Rotterdam Hillegersberg which was held in september of that year. In Andorra and Spain we kissed the ground, Ben: you refused to kiss the ground in Spain, shame on you! In Carcassonne Jan was locked in a cellar where his mortal remains can still be seen today at the Môge-club museum. We had a very pleasant cottage, the only disadvantage was that everything (Ben's bed, the wash-stand) fell apart during our stay and had to be repared with mostly glue! 1982: A long week-end in Paris: As a result of just one small glass of beer Bernard trew-up at the movies (come on Bernard...) and was later found on his bed at the Pierrots-Hotel with the room door still opened...who had just left? During the summer visiting Luxembourg and the river Mosel and Cochem in Germany. In Luxembourg Ben received a full glass of wine over his head on a terras, insisted on sending dirty postcards (thanks to the management this was cancelled) and Jan made a date in 50 years time (only 30 to go Jan, keep ik up!) on the boulevard of Toulouse with ?, and found his shoes floating in the river Rhine later on. They could not be salvaged in Rotterdam! Bernard: I have a miss Barbara Apfel on the line for you...urgently! Our transport, as in 1981, was a white Opel Rekord 1700 two door. 1983: Denmark: Gilleleje here we come!! Can Karin Jensen cook us our breakfast again? What ever happend to Gitte Sandoe Hansen with her daughter Nathasja, where are they now? Bernard was found again in his room with a splash of a white fluid on his trousers after a tiering afternoon with Charlotte...till this day he thinks it's coconut-milk, dream on Bernard, and Ben admitted after eating hamburgers for a week that he did not like hamburgers! First we went to Hamburg where Bernard treated himself to a new wardrobe from a 'Kleiderspende', we swam in the local fountain, and went to sleep early in the famous Hotel Richter. In Kopenhagen we kissed the mermaid and had a fight in the hotel room which till this day resulted in quite a difficult 'shitting proces...' for one member of the management-team. Our transport was a red '76 Chevrolet Malibu Classic Wagon which proved to be a real good place to spend the night!! At the end of the year Ben and Jan visited Aline in France where Ben married the love of his life (at least he thinks he did...) at least he saved the remnants of her cigarettes! Aline: your Ford Fiesta had the licence plate 2315TZ91, till this day Ben's lucky numbers and at last go get him!!! 1984: Italy, Yugoslavia, Chechoslovakia. On our way to Lido di Jesolo (Bernard: pension Iris just for you!) our car broke down near Frankfurt causing a stau of at least 3 km, great work Jan, but unfortunately a new alternator was installed quickly by Bernard, again thanks from the management-team. We visited Venice where we kissed the ground and the photo on top of this page was made, Portoroz, talked to an old Tito vet and had pizza for breakfast (only Ben had some left overs of bread found on the side walk) , drank slibowisch and managed to get to Prague savely via Linz and Graz where we kissed Austrian soil. In Prague we were rescued by a second-rate actor whome we had dinner with at privat Sweik (eine typische Athmosphere...we had either steak or schnitzel, all the other items on the menu were not available) found ourselves without a room at midnight, but arranged a room in the local Hotel Solidarita thanks to a local taxi driver, enjoyed the city and visited Pilzen later on where ofcourse we had a large beer. I must say we did not kiss the ground in a former communist country, was this the reason why the iron curtain fell down 5 years later? Our transport was a '76 moondust metal Dodge Coronet Stationwagon. Important link: 1985: Poland. We visited Poznan, stayed in the best Hotel in town the Orbis, drove to Radom and visited Auswitsch and Breslau. Ruurd: he was too drunk to drive from Poznan to Warsaw and had to trow up at a local bus stop...all due to one night in the Orbis in town...In Radom the Polish division was formed and a studenski-club was opened to worship our memory and two guys got married. In Stizelce Oplolski Ben donated some worn underpants to a local peasant, this fact even made it to a local Dutch newspaper! In Breslau (Wroclaw) we had a simple dinner in the Orbis Hotel with some locals and an other studenski-club was opened to keep our memory alive and some local heros were installed to man the Môge-club museum such as Justina and Jolanda, are you still alive or yet a grand-mother? Finally on the 'transit-strasse' in the GDR our Dodge was unable to start again (obviously sabotage) and in the middle of the night some Vopo's in a Lada managed to start our mighty V8 again by means of some starter-cables. Finally in Western Germany we had a flat tyre, while the rest of us were too weak as a result of the Moge-club vacation to even lift a finger, Bernard replaced the tyre with the spare. This was Bernard's finest hour, our latest info on him tells us that he's now way over 40 and even managed to beget a baby and is living in a suburb in the middle of the country, mumbling Moge all day long...Moge!! Since then many trips were made with several members to a whole lot of destinations... I'll just mention: Berlin: the fall of the wall..., Verdun: the search-light on the Ossuaire at mid-night overlooking the former battle-field (where candidate member Tom K. issued the 'Verdunoloog' certificate to all present)..., La Gleize in Peiper's footsteps..., Pas de Calais and the large Channel-guns..., Caen to much to mention..., Vesoul visiting Peiper's resort..., Nordhausen the former V2 factory and concentration camp...East-Prussia (Wolfschanze) and so on and so on... update: 2000: A trip to all former command centers of the Third Reich was made, most well-known is the Wolfschanze in East-Prussia. 2001: We made a trip to the former capital of East-Prussia: Köningsberg. We drove our white Mondeo to the nearest Polish town and bought a one way ticket. We visited the city and made a lovely trip to the coastline well-kown for it' amber. We spend sundayevening in the hotel with a group of rich American ladies who spend a fortune just to be in our hotel at the same time as we were! Getting back to the free west was a begger problem: The MT decided to save some time and not to wait for the international train out of Köningsberg but just take to first train out to the west. But this train did not take us further than a couple of miles from the border...but no problem: we wanted to take a taxi at the station, at least we thought so. Having arrived at the station we found out we really were in teh middle of nowhere, the last taxi west left late 1944 of beginning 1945. We managed to hire a privat bus with driver who took us to the border only to find out you could not cross the border on foot...we were saved by Albert again who managed to get us an ols Mercedes with drives who took us across the border earning a few bottles of vodka! In the end we reached our car again 2 hours earlier than if we took the international train leaving us time to visit some remnants of old Reichsautobahnen. On our way back we visited Peenemunde and the isle of Rügen 2002: We visited (again) Breslau, Krakau, Bratislawa and Linz. 2004: The beaches in Normandy fo the 60th celebration of the Allied Invasion. click here for some pictures of these trips Topics: About early girls who were adored by us, or the other way around. See an ultimate dream to the left...Justyna Tomkowiak. Where are you now? Please let us know, maybe we can plan a reunion! (Marja 't Hoen please call Jan, he is still waiting for you, Laetitia van der Esch please call an also desperate Ben, Genia Sliwa (also performed as the singer Genoveva): Bernard is in his last years and has not got very long to live anymore...., please call him). And Ruurd is still waiting for his Linda! (Also: Sabine Watremez, Gladys, Linda, Aline Denayrou, Gitte, ...(?)Merede wait for us!) E-mail us: [email protected] Listen to music, called dreaming: Exemples: Pittsburg in the Rain by Leon de Graaff / I like dreaming by Kenny Nolan / Winter in America by Dough Ashdown / When you are a king by the White Plains / Mr Lonely or the days of sand and shovels by Bobby Vinton / Jean by Oliver / Honey by Bobby Goldsboro / My eyes adored you by Franki Valli / You light up my life bij Debbie Boone / Traces by The Classics IV / Past, present and future by the Shangrila's / All over the world by Francoise Hardy / Love's not for me by Graham Gouldman. It's again a feeling of complete devotion to a song, not only caused by the music but the lyrics are also very important and can lead, in combination with Spatlaese, to a state of ultime happiness and is beter than sex (so I have been told, do not believe me...). In the beginning there was nothing...and thanks to the briljant ideas of the management (and occasionally some menbers) dreamin' saw the light. The process is: Any member can submit a song, together we vote on all nominies of the evening but in the end (as a good democrat) the management has the final vote. That's the way it all started...till this day! Most of the dreaming' music is avaliable on tape (titles 'the best of' 'the very best of' 'ultimate deamin'...), on CD very soon: Ben: up to you, but only if agreed by the full management-team. Drinking: Spatläse (sweet white wine from the German river Mosel) and Beer (mostly not too much...) combined with the sweet sounds of deamin' are a real Môge-club heaven and will lead to a state of deep forfillment for all involved. The People we adore: Vanessa Chinitor, Anna Kournikova, Heather Locklear, Boudewijn Buch, Louis Neefs (a special MC delegation already visited his grave in Mechelen, Belgium, Wally Tax, Pim, Walter Mondale (for President!), ir. Walther de Rochebrune and the complete cast of 'Sjef van Oekel's discohoek', reeds!! I am suffering from a good temper! Also: Armand, Frans Halsema, Gerard Cox (a former primairy-schoolteacher of Ben was a sister of Gerard Cox), the group Bots and last but not least The Hearts Of Soul with the late Patricia Maesen (anyone who knows the location of her grave please let us know via the messagebox above, so we can visit her grave, like we did with Louis Neefs). Our Cars? Volvo 164, 244, 245, 440 and 740. An FSO 'Warzawa' from the fifties imported from Poland. Renault-Rambler, a moondustmetal '76 Dodge Coronet stationwagon, '76 Chevrolet Malibu wagon, and last bust not least a Ford Mondeo wagon 1998 and 2000. Update: a Ford Galaxy, Renault Laguna, Volkswagen Passat 2005. So you know a lot more about us. Below this page you will be able to see some pics of us, enjoy it! We are working on a better and more complete photogallery of our meetings and vacations, so stay tuned to this website! Thanks for watching! Always look on the bright side of life! E-mail: [email protected] Môge! |
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| Update August 2005: Summer brought some more glorious topics, to name a few: - After 'the best of Frans Bauer' an other CD was released by Môge-club productions: 'the best of Ali. B'. - Even a third CD is being prepared by the MT: 'the best of Andre Rieux'. - These will one day be followed by the ultimate 'Môge-club' double CD: 'Final Dreamin'. - preparations are starting for a next 'Môge-club' trip eastwards, etc, etc, ect ... - 60 years of liberation showed us a marvellous piece of 'Jeep Art': a well preserved RAF girl, special greetings and a kiss from all members of the 'Môge-club'! Nominations can be send in by all members to the MT voting her as our official 'Môge-club' vacation driver. |
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