Branko’s favourite 24 Oranges postings of 2008
A short selection of my favourite stories of 2008, some of them funny, some sad, some just weird:
- Sixties slaughterhouse how-to finally aired, made by a vegetarian and censored because of the children
- Murder scene straddling the border, local Poirots could only collect evidence from their side of the line
- The man who disliked traffic signs, unnoticed in his home country (Dutch)
- Frenchman can marry a Dutchman and still stay French (follow-up), it’s all Greek to me
- Van Gogh discovered, Frans Hals discovered, Brueghel the Younger discovered, it’s been a good year if you’re into Dutch painters
- Iranian Muslims get free asylum, but only if they convert to Christianity
- Quacks get legal recognition, so now they can be prosecuted for malpractice
- Dutch sports fans as seen from space—the Orange, oh the Orange!
- 1970’s Junior Woodchucks guidebook, teaching kids how to clean their own clothes
- Jewish WWII interior discovered (follow-up), you saw the photos here first
- Coin designed using only open source software legal tender in the Netherlands, all your mintz are belong to us
So, which 24 Oranges story of 2008 would top your list?
Stuff without Donald Duck!