Hamlet and cheese danish, simultaneously. Brain’s being lazy today.
Wozniacki’s butt.
Bertha Hansen, a pen-pal of my youth… she always sent me colorful letters covered with stickers and awesome Danish stamps.
Well, what do you know, I was right all along!
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!)
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?)
Not a koala eating an apple? Huh.
Although I couldn’t remember its name, I thought of the Oresund Bridge.
Hamlet.
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)
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.
This.
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.)
cheese
Hamlet for me too!
Milk. Denmark Milk is a well-known brand here.
Canned ham. And Hamlet. And porn. Virtually simultaneously.
Trolls. My mom collects Dam/Norfin trolls.
Yes!