# Quick, what's the first thing that pops into your head when you hear the word "Denmark"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 21, 2011, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880 "2011-07-21T17:35:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![carlotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@carlotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlotta)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/41 "2011-07-21T18:56:31Z")
Mustangs. The car. Because the only Dane I know (works with and quite good friend of my husband) drives one. Obsesses about his Mustang. Is all about his Mustang. ---
**Author:** ![Caffeine.addict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@Caffeine.addict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caffeine.addict)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/42 "2011-07-21T19:04:52Z")
Danish butter cookies. Which is weird because I haven’t had one since I was a kid and I never really liked them. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/43 "2011-07-21T19:06:11Z")
Hamlet ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/44 "2011-07-21T19:07:13Z")
Greenland. ---
**Author:** ![JohnnyMac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@JohnnyMac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnnyMac)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/45 "2011-07-21T19:07:19Z")
Hamlet, Elsinore. ---
**Author:** ![Disheavel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Disheavel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disheavel)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/46 "2011-07-21T19:09:29Z")
Pedophiles. I’m really sorry but I have a Swiss and a French colleagues and when I was going to Copenhagen a year ago for a conference they both independently said to watch out for them. I thought they were joking at first, but they iterated that this is a serious problem in Denmark and it is really known for it. [checked to see the forum is correct… mindless, yep!] ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/47 "2011-07-21T19:10:55Z")
“Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen, Salty old queen of the sea” ---
**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/48 "2011-07-21T19:13:48Z")
Some lesbotic pornography I was watching this morning. But, if it was any other day, an early 90s Cup Winners’ Cup tie between Arsenal and Brondby. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/49 "2011-07-21T19:14:15Z")
Copenhagen ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/50 "2011-07-21T19:18:26Z")
Danishes. And then Great Danes. ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/51 "2011-07-21T19:48:47Z")
Copenhagen ---
**Author:** ![Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hypnagogic_jerk/32/4252_2.png) [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypnagogic_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/52 "2011-07-21T19:53:03Z")
I pictured the outline of Denmark on the map. After that, it probably would have been the Little Mermaid. ETA: or Muhammad cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/53 "2011-07-21T19:53:47Z")
windmills! ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/54 "2011-07-21T19:54:17Z")
> [@Folly](#): > > windmills! And Amsterdam! ---
**Author:** ![Elysium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3be4f8/32.png) [@Elysium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysium)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/55 "2011-07-21T19:55:56Z")
Hamlet. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/56 "2011-07-21T19:57:44Z")
Amsterdam of course is not in Denmark. But [windmills sure are](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Denmark). > [@Wikipedia](#): > > Denmark was a pioneer in developing commercial wind power during the 1970s, and today almost half of the wind turbines around the world are produced by Danish manufacturers… ---
**Author:** ![Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hypnagogic_jerk/32/4252_2.png) [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypnagogic_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/57 "2011-07-21T19:58:15Z")
> [@Disheavel](#): > > Pedophiles. > > I’m really sorry but I have a Swiss and a French colleagues and when I was going to Copenhagen a year ago for a conference they both independently said to watch out for them. I thought they were joking at first, but they iterated that this is a serious problem in Denmark and it is really known for it. If you’re old enough to post on the Dope, you may not have much to “watch out” about. > [@](#): > > [checked to see the forum is correct… mindless, yep!] Now that’s an original parsing of “MPSIMS”. ETA: and now that I think of it, I think the Muhammad cartoons are more linked to the Netherlands than to Denmark. (Just like windmills and Amsterdam.) I’ll blame Doper **Rune** for the mistake. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/58 "2011-07-21T19:59:55Z")
A kangaroo eating an orange. [Really.](http://www.mathnews.uwaterloo.ca/Issues/mn8901/MOW2.php) ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/59 "2011-07-21T20:00:13Z")
Mine’s already been said, but orange kangaroos. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/60 "2011-07-21T20:03:33Z")
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