Oh yes. The old Zealand is a part of Denmark, the island with Copenhagen on it if I remember correctly. It’s called Sjælland I think in danish.
I am shocked and surprised that you don’t can’t tell the scandinavians apart, it’s very easy: the danes talk with a potatoe stuck down their throat, the norwegians are the ones talk in a silly sing-song way and the swedes are the ones obsessed with evils of the government. The finlanders are the happy smiling ones who will never drink.
BTW I know where New Zealand is also, it is almost exactly on the other side of the globe from me, and with the drilling they’re doing here now I guess well have a tunnel there soon.
You know, I don’t know if I ever heard of poutine before coming to the SDMB. 5 years ago, I may have said"no, that’s not his name, I think" and never known that poutine was something you eat.
Usually we can only name the guy who retired to draw Doonesbury and the current guy that moonlights as a defenseman for the NJ Devils.
** Gum**, Good one!
To make things complicated; Zeeland is also a part of Holland [or the Netherlands]
How come Denmark and Holland get mixed up so much? Can it be the D in ‘Dutch’ - like the D in Denmark? Can it be that both countries are as flat as a pancake? Both countries have a lot of blonde people? Both countries are sexually free? Both countries have a weird language?
So am I the only one that thinks the whole Scandinavian area looks like a giant penis? (Maybe after a particularly hard night). That’s how I always find it on the map
Why is geography important anyway, it’s not like we’re driving there. What difference does it make if another country is 2000 miles to the left or 1000 miles to the right? It’s knowing and respecting a country’s culture and people that matters, not it’s location.
Speaking of which, why do we need to learn the capitals of each state anyway?? Maybe 100 years ago it mattered because they were the centers of commerce. Name one thing you have to go to the state capital for today? To me it’s useless trivia.
