# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![RoeCocoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7feea3/32.png) [@RoeCocoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RoeCocoa)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/81 "2011-07-21T23:00:33Z")
Hamlet and cheese danish, simultaneously. Brain’s being lazy today. ---
**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/82 "2011-07-21T23:02:44Z")
Wozniacki’s butt. ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/83 "2011-07-21T23:06:01Z")
Bertha Hansen, a pen-pal of my youth… she always sent me colorful letters covered with stickers and awesome Danish stamps. ---
**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, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/84 "2011-07-21T23:11:25Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Nope, [Jyllands-Posten is Danish](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy), and they’re what started the whole thing. Well, what do you know, I was right all along! ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_of\_the\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@Lady\_of\_the\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_of_the_Lake)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/85 "2011-07-21T23:29:24Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Skal! > > (I just got up with SATW this morning, Balance, funnily enough, so I guess my first thought was Denmark and the Netherlands making Sister Japan get a nosebleed.) Another comic reader! I came back to add a disclaimer to my ‘Racism’ comment up thread, as I don’t actually think Denmark is racist, yet the first thing that popped into my head was ‘Racism’. I’d just read the whole comic, and it’s a spoof that Denmark has issues with ethnic minorities to humorous results and apparently it’s stuck with me… 😉 (Along with Norway = Fish! Finland = Drunken psycho with knife!) ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/86 "2011-07-21T23:39:48Z")
> [@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. > > [checked to see the forum is correct… mindless, yep!] I wonder if this perception has anything to do with the fact that Denmark had no laws against kiddie porn until about 20 years ago? I know it sounds like an Urban Legend, and I am not sure of the details, but I am pretty certain that I read (possibly right here in SDMB?) that until fairly recently, there were legitimate, legal Danish publishers that were openly selling child porn (not sure if it was of tiny children or young teen type stuff), without breaking any national laws that were on the books at the time… (BTW—How do you “watch out” for a pedophile?) ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/87 "2011-07-21T23:41:37Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > A kangaroo eating an orange. > [Really.](http://www.mathnews.uwaterloo.ca/Issues/mn8901/MOW2.php) Not a koala eating an apple? Huh. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/88 "2011-07-21T23:45:50Z")
Although I couldn’t remember its name, I thought of the [Oresund Bridge](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98resund_Bridge). ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/89 "2011-07-21T23:47:28Z")
Hamlet. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/90 "2011-07-22T00:31:07Z")
Morbid and probably misremembered in the details, but the Danes invaded Sweden and promised the Swedes they’d spare them, but they cut their heads off anyway, including the Swedish King who’d died when the Danes were still on the march; so they had to dig up his corpse first. Years later the Swedes invaded Denmark, on foot across the ice, which started to break up under their mass, but almost all the Swedes made it even though they were waist-deep in ice water. Also, the King of Denmark wasn’t paid very much, especially after they lost their toehold in India (“racist?” well, there was slavery in the Virgin Islands), so the princesses had to take in sewing for extra money. One of these girls married the Czar and was Nicholas II’s mother; while another sister married the King of England (and was gracious enough to let his favorite mistress visit him on his deathbed, unlike that bitch Catherine deMedici who barred Diane d’Portiers) and was George V’s mother. One more thing: “Copenhagen” is an answer along with “Traveler” and “Little Sorrel” in the trivia game of “Name that General’s Horse” (Wellington, Lee & Stonewall Jackson) ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/91 "2011-07-22T00:35:36Z")
I would’ve thought Norway. Or Copenhagen. Or Jutland, or Odensee, or Hans Christian Andersen, or the Little Mermaid. But somewhat to my surprise, it’s Hamlet. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/92 "2011-07-22T00:45:31Z")
> [@Satchmo](#): > > The little mermaid, followed immediately by Hans Christian Andersen. This. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/93 "2011-07-22T00:45:37Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > A kangaroo eating an orange. > [Really.](http://www.mathnews.uwaterloo.ca/Issues/mn8901/MOW2.php) Can anyone name a fruit that starts with an “x”? I think I thought myself into a corner reading that. (I opened it in another tab and forgot about it earlier, then spent some time playing Globetrotter XL before getting back to it. If I’d gone straight to it from this thread, I imagine I’d have wound up with **foolsguinea** ’s koala.) ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/94 "2011-07-22T00:51:40Z")
cheese ---
**Author:** ![CoffinMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9bd4f/32.png) [@CoffinMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoffinMan)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/95 "2011-07-22T01:47:03Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > Hamlet Hamlet for me too! ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/96 "2011-07-22T02:05:51Z")
Milk. Denmark Milk is a well-known brand here. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/97 "2011-07-22T02:25:04Z")
Canned ham. And Hamlet. And porn. Virtually simultaneously. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/98 "2011-07-22T02:53:14Z")
Trolls. My mom collects Dam/Norfin trolls. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/99 "2011-07-22T02:56:44Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Richard Scarry’s picture, “A Castle in Denmark” Yes! ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-the-first-thing-that-pops-into-your-head-when-you-hear-the-word-denmark/589880/100 "2011-07-22T03:14:44Z")
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