# Celebrating George Orwell's birthday in style ^.^

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 28, 2013, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrating-george-orwells-birthday-in-style/662153 "2013-06-28T19:03:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrating-george-orwells-birthday-in-style/662153/1 "2013-06-28T19:03:47Z")

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Sometimes the Dutch demonstrate a FANTASTIC sense of humour 😃

To mark George Orwell’s birthday on June 25 (happy 110th birthday, George!), a citizen group in the city of Utrecht decked a bunch of CCTV cameras all over the city with tiny party hats ^.^

[Check it out!](http://front404.com/george-orwells-birthday-party)

God, I love it XD

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**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrating-george-orwells-birthday-in-style/662153/2 "2013-06-28T20:00:19Z")

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Interesting. It’s his birthday, but we’re the ones getting photographed.

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**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrating-george-orwells-birthday-in-style/662153/3 "2013-06-28T21:31:41Z")

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HA!

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**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrating-george-orwells-birthday-in-style/662153/4 "2013-06-28T22:09:11Z")

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I love Big Brother!

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrating-george-orwells-birthday-in-style/662153/5 "2013-06-28T23:46:16Z")

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We’re going to party like it’s nineteen eighty-three!