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Harry
Member # 265
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Or New Amsterdam, as it used to be known!
For some reason, everyone's favorite American, Bill O'Reilly, has managed to get himself into Dutch headlines by talking bad about our nation.
A Dutch commercial agency has launched an initiative to give New York back to its original owners!
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MinutiaeMan
Member # 444
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Frankly, you guys can have it, as far as I'm concerned.
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Shik
Member # 343
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quote: Originally posted by Harry: A Dutch commercial agency has launched an initiative to give New York back to its original owners!
...The Lenape tribe?
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Mars Needs Women
Member # 1505
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They'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands.
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MinutiaeMan
Member # 444
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quote: Originally posted by Shik: quote: Originally posted by Harry: A Dutch commercial agency has launched an initiative to give New York back to its original owners!
...The Lenape tribe?
No, the Lenape sold it legitimately, remember?
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Shik
Member # 343
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He said the ORIGINAL owners. So.
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Zipacna
Member # 1881
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quote: A Dutch commercial agency has launched an initiative to give New York back to its original owners!
Considering control of New Amsterdam was ceeded to the British Empire by the Treaty of Westminster of 1674, wouldn't their call actually mean giving control back to Britain?
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TSN
Member # 31
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Well, except, the 1783 Treaty of Paris...
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Mars Needs Women
Member # 1505
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Well what about the Monroe doctrine.
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B.J.
Member # 858
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I'm with MinutiaeMan. You can have it. And good riddance.
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Nim
Member # 205
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Oh great then Maine will usurp the land previously occupied by NY and there'll just be salmon and lobster and smelly fishermen as far as the eye can see. Happy now, crab-lover?
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Mars Needs Women
Member # 1505
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Well MinutiaeMan and B.J. what's wrong with New York?
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MinutiaeMan
Member # 444
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quote: Originally posted by Shik: He said the ORIGINAL owners. So.
Then wouldn't that be the amoeba? Hell, maybe we should just scoop the whole damn place out of the ground and send it hurtling into the sun... it's made of material that "belongs" to the sun, right?
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Mars Needs Women
Member # 1505
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Actually wouldn't it all go back to the source of the big-bang?
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Shik
Member # 343
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Dear BJ & MM,
Fuck you both, NYC is The Greatest Place Conceived By Mankind. It IS, in fact, THE City.
Try getting qiao xiu chow mein in central PA. Can't be done, I tell you!
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Jason Abbadon
Member # 882
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quote: Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: Frankly, you guys can have it, as far as I'm concerned.
Deal- provided you take Bill O'Reilly and all those New Yorkers with it!
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The Ginger Beacon
Member # 1585
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NOOOOOO! They're bad enough 34 hundred miles away! If they all moved to Holland it would sink in a light green cloud.
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AndrewR
Member # 44
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I wonder if the Norsemen want their settlements back that they had in "Vinland".
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Nim
Member # 205
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My moose riders are loyal to me and me alone.
The undersides of our moose are flat and perfect for swimming up shallow rivers, taking the enemy by surprise. The coast guard will panic, fleeing from the heat of our moose pyrotechnics and throwing their bodies in the sea.
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B.J.
Member # 858
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A M��se once bit my sister ...
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Chris
Member # 71
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quote: Originally posted by AndrewR: I wonder if the Norsemen want their settlements back that they had in "Vinland".
If they want Labrador back they can have it.
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Nim
Member # 205
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Look, we'll both call to it and we'll see who it comes to.
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Da_bang80
Member # 528
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quote: Originally posted by Chris: quote: Originally posted by AndrewR: I wonder if the Norsemen want their settlements back that they had in "Vinland".
If they want Labrador back they can have it.
Ya seriously. Nothing good has ever come out of that place. They can have Saskatchewan too, that place is the shits.
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