Tautological tautologies. And PowerPuff Girls
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@bb36e Some searching also returns a nearby street called 'Oude Nieuwstraat'. Literally, as you'd expect, 'Old new street'.
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@PJH said in Tautological tautologies. And PowerPuff Girls:
In addition to the other replies there've been so far, in the UK we have
Many more examples on the page that links to:
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@PleegWat said in Tautological tautologies. And PowerPuff Girls:
@bb36e Some searching also returns a nearby street called 'Oude Nieuwstraat'. Literally, as you'd expect, 'Old new street'.
This neatly illustrates the problem with calling anything “new” as part of its name.
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@Gurth Well, even old New York was once New Amsterdam.
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@hungrier Why'd they change it?
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@masonwheeler I can't say. People just liked it better that way?
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@masonwheeler said in Tautological tautologies. And PowerPuff Girls:
@hungrier Why'd they change it?
The island was taken from the Dutch by the British
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@PleegWat Taken back? Is it nobody's business but the British?
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@hungrier said in Tautological tautologies. And PowerPuff Girls:
@Gurth Well, even old New York was once New Amsterdam.
@masonwheeler said in Tautological tautologies. And PowerPuff Girls:
@hungrier Why'd they change it?
Because old Amsterdam went to pot?
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Where do policemen live?999 Letsby Avenue
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Ok, since this has currently descended into silly street-names, I present, not too far from me: "Side". Sadly, there is no Top or Bottom in the vicinity, however I do note a business here that has probably taken advantage of it....
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@hungrier said in Tautological tautologies. And PowerPuff Girls:
@Gurth Well, even old New York was once New Amsterdam.
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There's more than one Cross St around here. But
The Circle, Austin, TX
When I was there, the Google Navigation app proudly put "The" at the top of the screen as the name of the next street I was looking for.
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@devjoe Damn you for mentioning Austin. Now I want P. Terry's and I'm 1500 miles away.
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@devjoe said in Tautological tautologies. And PowerPuff Girls:
When I was there, the Google Navigation app proudly put "The" at the top of the screen as the name of the next street I was looking for.
That's to make up for the case here where it chops off the end of "Paradise Village Pkwy" before I can see if it means PVP "East" or PVP "West".
(Actually, it's worse than that. I just checked and it insists on "North Paradise Village Parkway whatever" even though the entire run of both streets is north of Phoenix's zero point.)
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@PleegWat said in Tautological tautologies. And PowerPuff Girls:
The island was taken from the Dutch by the British
How the hell do you steal an island?
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@da-Doctah Military vessels tend to be involved.
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@da-Doctah said in Tautological tautologies. And PowerPuff Girls:
How the hell do you steal an island?
Powerful tugboats.
More serious reply: The normal way is to land troops there and have them first of all defeat the existing owners’ troops, then resist all their attempts to get it back. In the particular case of New York, the Dutch were unable to put up much resistance so surrendered to the invading English. In the peace treaty of the Second English War¹ in 1667, New Amsterdam was basically traded for the English colony of Surinam in South America, which the Dutch had captured in a similar way, and which appeared to be more valuable at the time. With hindsight, of course, that turned out to be the wrong choice.
¹ Known as the Second Dutch War in the UK, or the Second Anglo-Dutch War to English-language historiography in general.
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@Gurth said in Tautological tautologies. And PowerPuff Girls:
Powerpuff tugboats.
I can't be the only one who read that.
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@heterodox said in Tautological tautologies. And PowerPuff Girls:
Damn you for mentioning Austin. Now I want P. Terry's and I'm 1500 miles away.
But still in Texas?
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