Tell us A Bit About Where You're From

[TheWalkingContradiction]

You both made me smile.   

[xSilverPhinx]

You both made me smile.   

Be careful, The Asmo will want you worshiping him soon and the Pudding will make you feel the incredible urge to try on some weird hat. 

[Tom62]

Very cool post, WalkingContradiction. 

That's Breuckelen -- broken land -- as the original Dutch settlers called an area of present-day Brooklyn to the north of my part of Brooklyn.  Later English settlers could not say Breuckelen in a Dutch accent and thus said Brooklyn.

Well, you learn something knew everyday

They named it after me . My family name is "van Breukelen"'

[xSilverPhinx]

Very cool post, WalkingContradiction. 

That's Breuckelen -- broken land -- as the original Dutch settlers called an area of present-day Brooklyn to the north of my part of Brooklyn.  Later English settlers could not say Breuckelen in a Dutch accent and thus said Brooklyn.

Well, you learn something knew everyday

They named it after me . My family name is "van Breukelen"'

Really? Cool!

That would mean something like "from Broken land?"

[Tom62]

They named it after me . My family name is "van Breukelen"'

Really? Cool!

That would mean something like "from Broken land?"

Breukelen is a town in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht. So my name would mean "from the town of Breukelen" .
I didn't find the origins of the name Breukelen, but it could well be that it means "broken land", because in that area of the Netherlands, you've got thousands of acres of marshland.

[Ali]

Um...  Think of how HARD it was for the ancient Greeks to ERECT this SEMINAL COLOSSUS so that people would not SHAFT the law.  

A penis..? That's quite a stretch, really. I, for one, have never seen one quite as pointy or with a head that tiny compared to the shaft. Limited sample, to be sure, but still...

Hahahhahahahahahaa.  Stretching penis.  Hahahahahahahahahahaaha (good to know that with age comes maturity, eh?)

[Buddy]

There is nothing wrong with a good penis joke.

[xSilverPhinx]

There is nothing wrong with a good penis joke.

Which reminds me, some people see themselves as a penis, but never a joke

[Buddy]

There is nothing wrong with a good penis joke.

Which reminds me, some people see themselves as a penis, but never a joke

Do they awkwardly stick out in public?

[TheWalkingContradiction]

Be careful, The Asmo will want you worshiping him soon and the Pudding will make you feel the incredible urge to try on some weird hat.  

I love weird hats--and I already worship guys. 

[TheWalkingContradiction]

They named it after me . My family name is "van Breukelen"'

I guess that makes you...  Tom of Brooklyn!  

The old Dutch Breuckelen is usually spelled like that, but I have also seen it spelled Breuck–Landt.

There are so many Dutch place names all over the city.  To name only a few...  The Bowery (from Dutch bouwerie - "farm"), Amsterdam Avenue, Coney Island (from Konijn Eiland - "Rabbit Island"), Staten Island (from Staaten Eylandt), and so on.

[The Black Jester]

They named it after me . My family name is "van Breukelen"'

I guess that makes you...  Tom of Brooklyn!   

The old Dutch Breuckelen is usually spelled like that, but I have also seen it spelled Breuck–Landt.

There are so many Dutch placenames all over the city.  To name only a few...  The Bowery (from Dutch bouwerie - "farm"), Amsterdam Avenue, Coney Island (from Konijn Eiland - "Rabbit Island"), Staten Island (from Staaten Eylandt), and so on.

Cool factoids!

[TheWalkingContradiction]

They named it after me . My family name is "van Breukelen"'

I guess that makes you...  Tom of Brooklyn!   

The old Dutch Breuckelen is usually spelled like that, but I have also seen it spelled Breuck–Landt.

There are so many Dutch placenames all over the city.  To name only a few...  The Bowery (from Dutch bouwerie - "farm"), Amsterdam Avenue, Coney Island (from Konijn Eiland - "Rabbit Island"), Staten Island (from Staaten Eylandt), and so on.

Cool factoids!

[TheWalkingContradiction]

There is nothing wrong with a good penis joke.

Which reminds me, some people see themselves as a penis, but never a joke

Do they awkwardly stick out in public?

Maybe we all need to bone up on our penis jokes.

[xSilverPhinx]

Yeah, I didn't even know that they were in fact englishised words from original Dutch. I feel incredibly ignorant right now.