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Revision as of 12:07, 19 July 2005 by DePiep (talk | contribs) (-zurebommentijd (german??); + story longest)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Komkommertijd is a Dutch word, literally meaning "cucumber time". It is in reference to the lull of news stories that occur during the summer vacation period - that the news in the papers are as thin and watery as a cucumber. Another explanation is: it is the period of the year when every succesive day there is a story in the paper about another longest cucumber - plus a picture with the owner, of course.
There are variants of this concept in other languages, such as Norwegian agurktid. and German zurebommentijd.
Other languages have similiar terms for the sparse summer period: French has the dull season la morte-saison, English has the silly season and big gooseberry time, Swedish has the news drought nyhetstorka, and German has the summer hole Sommerloch.
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