From the "Oh No" Moments From History challenge. See all 175 entries (closed)
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Doesn't look much like Holland to me!
/has family in Vlaardingen (Rotterdam)
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Sat 3 Dec 2005, 0:22,
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This is generally true, mind. I once searched for "dumb motherfucker" and got this as the first hit. (SFW)
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Sat 3 Dec 2005, 0:26,
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see, I said so
(searches again and ... it's called "Dutch WIndmill", but it's by a USian, so what now right?)
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Sat 3 Dec 2005, 0:36,
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looks like a spanish windmill to me.
but it's all a big fat american lie! see below
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Sat 3 Dec 2005, 0:26,
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I'm Dutch and I never even heard that story until it was mentioned in some american TV program or something like that.
*searches* - ah: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Brinker
"Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates is a novel by Mary Mapes Dodge, first published in 1865.
A part of the novel became an American legend. In the novel a tale is read out in class: The Hero of Haarlem about a Dutch boy that saved his country by putting his finger in a leaking dike, and staying there all night in spite of the cold."
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Sat 3 Dec 2005, 0:25,
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"Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates is a novel by Mary Mapes Dodge, first published in 1865.
A part of the novel became an American legend. In the novel a tale is read out in class: The Hero of Haarlem about a Dutch boy that saved his country by putting his finger in a leaking dike, and staying there all night in spite of the cold."
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty, – that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.'
Although, to be fair, anyone growing up with Mapes as a middle name is unlikely to know much about beauty
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Sat 3 Dec 2005, 0:28,
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Although, to be fair, anyone growing up with Mapes as a middle name is unlikely to know much about beauty
Oh we were taught it from an early
age, but it was just a story meant to instill a sense of resonsibility and civic pride or something. Not meant to be taken literally. If it was a reall story then being Dutch it would have been a 12ft man named Jeroen who had his dick in a hole in the wall leak or no leak. ;)
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Sat 3 Dec 2005, 0:31,
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