Comments on: Regime change for the Big Orange.

Regime change for the Big Orange.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:50:02 -0800

Hear our demands: give us back New York. Just think of the possibilities! Join the struggle. Or else.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:50:48 -0800

FYI regarding the last link: a "draaiorgel" is a barrel or street organ, commonly seen in Dutch town market squares and streets.

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:05:18 -0800

If the Dutch filled in the East River, where would the mob dump their bodies? The Meadowlands?

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:06:23 -0800

Just the ocean, probably.

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:06:52 -0800

they've already got holland and grand rapids and haven't done shit with it ... what do they need new york for?

By: Miko

Miko — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:08:38 -0800

Fantastic!

By: jonmc

jonmc — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:29:17 -0800

*invests in wooden shoe futures*

By: teferi

teferi — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:34:32 -0800

I can get behind this.

By: etaoin

etaoin — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:42:51 -0800

Of course, if the Dutch took over, the comedy clubs would immediately have to close.

By: porpoise

porpoise — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:44:10 -0800

Shouldn't it be "Give us back New Amsterdam!" ?

By: frogan

frogan — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:44:47 -0800

Of course, if the Dutch do take over, we can simply buy Manhattan back for $23 worth of tulips.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:49:48 -0800

Shouldn't it be "Give us back New Amsterdam!" ? No, it should actually be "Give us back Nieuw Amsterdam!" But the reason we got it from the Dutch a few hundred years back is cause it was such a pain in the ass to have to spell "new" with five frickin' letters, fer chrissake.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:50:36 -0800

Might be kinda cool to spell it "Haarlem" again, though...

By: jonmc

jonmc — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:54:36 -0800

Actually, screw the Dutch. Let's just add extra vowels to every place in the five boroughs. Flaatbuush. Fluushing. Aastoria. Staaten Islaand. Centraal Paark. Cooneey Islaand.

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:11:34 -0800

You guys have never had DeRuijter Chocolate Sprinkles on bread and butter, have you? If you had, you'd want the Dutch back, pronto.

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:15:51 -0800

Next they'll want their ovens back, and then we won't be able to have any cake. Give the Dutch something shiny, toss in a coupla Bjork CDs; they'll never know the difference.

By: ChestnutMonkey

ChestnutMonkey — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:15:52 -0800

Awesome! I just took a vacation to Europe (inculding Amsterdam) last month. Makes me wish I was there again. Despite this, I must say that I like New York the way it is (although canals all over the city would be cool).

By: Caviar

Caviar — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:23:50 -0800

You guys have never had DeRuijter Chocolate Sprinkles on bread and butter, have you? Overrated. It's all about the stroopwafels.

By: lalochezia

lalochezia — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:35:23 -0800

You'll have to take if from my cold, dead yuppie-condo-building chainstore-multiplying homogenizing douchebaggy twunt hands. yes, I know, grind grind grind. except there's nowhere you can grind an axe outside of the sharper image and duane reade. And they only accept Yax brand* axes. And they** only sharpen them enough to cut jobs, not trees or much less arguments. Because there's no arguing with the free market, now is there? I welcome the dutch. Coffeeshops. Waffles. Canals. Herring. For the love of god, sweet herring. Praatjes vullen geen gaatjes!! *Yuppie axes of course. ** They won't let you sharpen your own ax. For fear of lawsuits.

By: lalochezia

lalochezia — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:36:50 -0800

You'll have to take if it.......

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:41:14 -0800

Sweet Mother of God I forgot about the herring. Give 'em all a couple of "Best of a-ha" bootlegs and make sure they leave enough jars for every man-jack of us.

By: George_Spiggott

George_Spiggott — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:56:03 -0800

It'd be nice if they knew how to resize images. The images in the second link are all multi-megapixel buggers quasi-resized with height and width attributes. Not even proportionately in some cases.

By: drjimmy11

drjimmy11 — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:21:52 -0800

so this means New York would have even more fingers being put into dikes?

By: jouke

jouke — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 22:22:35 -0800

heh, the big orange

By: Cranberry

Cranberry — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 22:54:05 -0800

gnfti, what is a kroket? If it is good to eat, then I say you can have the Big Orange/New Amsterdam if you people will just learn a little restraint in the use of vowels. Would you be interested in having Texas too?

By: Colloquial Collision

Colloquial Collision — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 23:21:15 -0800

Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the jerks.

By: jouke

jouke — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 23:24:49 -0800

a little restraint in the use of vowels koeieuier!

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:04:36 -0800

Cranberry writes "gnfti, what is a kroket? If it is good to eat, then I say you can have the Big Orange/New Amsterdam if you people will just learn a little restraint in the use of vowels." You'll be able to taste them for yourself when Febo re-open all the old Horn and Hardart automats.

By: metasonix

metasonix — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:48:17 -0800

Screw the Dutch, indeed. Give it back to the Lenape instead. The REAL owners. (Now that is a tribe that got screwed.)

By: Flood

Flood — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 03:15:20 -0800

They can have New Amsterdam - but not New Utrecht, Brooklyn will forever remain ours

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 03:39:15 -0800

They can have New Amsterdam - Brooklyn will forever remain ours. But maybe as a gesture of goodwill to your neighbors to the north, you can start spelling it Breukelen again.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 05:19:43 -0800

At last New Yorkers will be able to get decent rijstaffel.

By: Remy

Remy — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 05:19:58 -0800

New Amsterdam, I love you, but you're bringing me down.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 05:23:54 -0800

It's become much too much.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 05:40:11 -0800

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By: blag

blag — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:24:28 -0800

maxwelton writes "You guys have never had DeRuijter Chocolate Sprinkles on bread and butter, have you?" You forgot the most awesome part: that's BREAKFAST.