More Dutch Trivia
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Sorry, Liz, you lost me there. The taste of hops is not what I want in my beer. I much prefer the darker, roasted barley taste of a stout (imperial or not) or perhaps a porter.
Now comes the question: is she making it up, or is it actually true?
Date! Date! Date! Date!
I was not expecting Emily to be so fascinated by Liz but this could be a beautiful trainwreck :)
I didn't get the notification on my phone for this, so it was a pleasant surprise when I sat down at my computer to a new comic.
Just this weekend past, a floating Tiki bar rescued some jet-skiers in distress in Halifax harbour. What a culture! What a country!
By god, the honking, and then the screaming!
But what was worse was the silence of the geese.
Always a good day when you can work "skeletonize" into a sentence.
gansbroemen (noun; Dutch winter sport) A traditional low-country canal game in which participants fend off agitated geese using short-handled brooms while sliding on ice. Regarded as rustic, dangerous, and faintly ridiculous. Etymology: From Dutch gans (“goose”) + broemen (“to strike or ward with a broom”), likely influenced by Middle English brom / brome (“broom shrub; broom made from twigs”). The resemblance to English broom is considered coincidental but plausible within North Sea dialect exchange.
Either everyone is making shit up or everyone is telling the truth. Because this is the QC world, I'm sure Northampton has an intramural league.
Ganzenfanfare is what happens in our reality and it is 100x cuter as geese with a marching band march the streets.
I loved these two together.
We did have a pack of geese terrorising my neighborhood a few years back...that shit was hilarious to someone who abhors going outside...
On day, Liz is gonna bust out an unbelievable fact that will turn out to be true.
Nice avatar.
You should hear what the Dutch do with fireworks. It's pretty crazy.
Sometimes geese are not so silly.
Don't mind me I'm just walking around saying xxxxxxxxxxxxansbrooma
So apparently, Patreon does not like my point about curling. So instead I’ll just note Emily’s blushing over Liz’s culture. I’m not sure if that’s a emphanism or something else or it’s a sign about Gremily.
I think it's just her low alcohol tolerance (+ probably genetics, speaking as a fellow Asian American) showing (Edit: And now I'm reading the Wikipedia article about Alcohol Flush Reaction and it is fascinating. Because I share Emily's joy of learning.)
Have we ever seen any waterfowl-based AnthroPC* bodies? Yelling Bird was in a duck costume once, I recall. *AvianPC?
Yes, we should combine hockey and curling. We could call it "Hurling" - which implies drinking lots of beer; so, that tracks.
There is an Irish game called "hurling". No ball, just two teams whacking each other with sticks.
More geese, please. Give the crowd what it came to see!
More geese? Is QC supposed to be a HORROR comic?!
Ahhhhh hops. The Plant What Makes Beer Gross™️
I understand that Anhhh hops are far superior, under the supervision of Anhogie Dang.
I love the imaginary Netherlands of Liz's mind.
Geese are scary, but not as scary as wild turkeys.
Fetch aft me boomstick! We're a going hunting TURKEYS!
I guess somewhat relatedly the word for baseball in Dutch is Honkbal
skeletonize is a good verb
Right up there with defenestrate
As a Dutch person I am intensely insulted by this comic. The 2008 ruleset change has massively decreased the yearly casualties.
Ooooh but what about the *weekly* casualties, huh?
The Geese Skeletonize Them is the PERFECT name for my new Canadian Death Metal band!!1
And You Will Know These Geese By The Trail Of Skeletons
Those who survive the game bristle every time they hear a honking sound.
The brooms, sure, but do any players survive?
Jokes on Liz: Emily goes on to invent weave armor for Gansbroemen players. The 11 dimensional woven-string theory armor stuns the worlds' militaries when it prevents 100% goose-based fatalities. Plus 100% depleted uranium penetrations and 75% depleted unobtainium penetrations.
Sadly - research says the brooms are tiny — in Nederlands, they’re referred to as brushes.
I love this loredump SOO MUCH
Wait, I DIDN'T KNOW INFODUMP AND LORE BECAME A PORTMANTEAU!?!?
Bah, Gansbroemen is just for the tourists. For the real authentic Dutch experience Emily needs to check out competitive Gigantische Snoepbillen. https://web.archive.org/web/20260501072120/https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5554
I think someone is sleeping with the gremlin this time. Something some funny number Nederlands-Aziatisch?
Now .. I must see this sport.
If the animal rights activists get too riled up, they could replace it with a cheese rolling race. Due to lack of hills it'll have to be against trebucheted in cheese wheels, though...
Definition of an animal rights activist: Somebody with a strong moral compass who has not ever encountered a goose.
[Insert joke here about Dutch tradition of fingers in dykes.]
No Sean. No.
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Marten being influenced by Liz to make up random factoids.
Jeph unknowingly talking about ganzenbezem with a made up dutch word makes this doubly funny
"If you got a problem with Canada Gooses, you got a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate!" - Wayne.
So you were doin' some unholy science experiments in Cubetown with your buds the other daaaaaaaayyyy
Zamboni: inadequate to the task.
One of the classic kinds of qc. Two people talk while the third makes stupid jokes to go with it. Perfect
While drinking!
Thats what put the "bone" in Zamboni
And sweep up the bones of the ones it didn’t reach in time.
Has nobody ever heard of BROOMBALL 😤
Nobody.
You have a wonderfully twisted mind, Jeph