December 17, 2007
Super Sunday
Yesterday it should have been Super Sunday. Super Sunday is a Sunday where the four top teams of the Dutch premier football league play against each other.
Super Sunday was already pretty much ruined, since ...
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December 10, 2007
Grand Theft Bicycle
Bicycle theft in the Netherlands is a fact of life. So if you want to get insurance for your bike, you have to convince your insurance company that you protect your steel steed with ...
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December 7, 2007
Yay! It’s cranky translation time (again!)
Spinvis - Smalfilm
I'm a 40 year old woman with a cigarette
I have an extraterrestrial substance in my blood
Last year i was abducted by a spaceship
And since then i'm not doing so well
I know where ...
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December 7, 2007
Una Paloma Blanca
North America might not have heard of George Baker before Quentin Tarantino decided to use the song Little Green Bag for his movie Reservoir Dogs. The rest of the world will Remember George and ...
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December 5, 2007
Petejumpers
Since the "poem" i scribbled down today got more attention than anything i ever posted on this normally forsaken blog, i'm going to add some more Sinterklaas content.
There is this album titled Pietenjump. The ...
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December 5, 2007
Sinterklaas poem
Today it is 5 December
A date we Dutch remember
Because it is the Sinterklaas celebration
The biggest feast in the entire nation!
We give presents like a lighter or a rubber duck
And write poems that really really ...
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November 18, 2007
Got me some books
It has been been a while since i visited the bookstore, which explains why i bought five books yesterday. Before i am going to read them, i'm going to make an attempt to bore ...
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November 1, 2007
Halloween
It seems that Halloween is becoming more and more popular in the Netherlands. I can understand that, having seen all 30 Roseanne series 2500 times. Halloween is really cool. It might become problematic in ...
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October 29, 2007
Time
This weekend the clock was turned an hour back in the Netherlands. Wintertime. I love wintertime, since you get an hour extra in the weekend. Another cool thing is that turning the clock an ...
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October 25, 2007
Awards
Yesterday Jan Wolkers was cremated in Amsterdam. He was best known as the writer of novels like Turkish Delight, Burning Love and The Dodo. I'm happily surprised that so much of his novels have ...
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