Kloten
Yesterday, we decided to get out of town and go see the EHC (Basel ice hockey team) game, while they were playing out in a town near Zurich. The town that the airport is in. Kloten.
Ehm. "Kloten" is one of those words that doesn’t seem to mean anything here, but certainly does have a meaning in Dutch. To understand the high-school giggle level involved here, imagine sitting in a stadium full of people shouting "BOLLOCKS" like it’s a good thing.
Basel lost. Kloten.
8 January 2007 at 13:01
I grew up in Flanders, and whenever I’m landing in Kloten, I can’t suppress a chuckle either. I figure that’s why they always announce it as “We’re landing at Zurich Airport”. Must harken back to the days when Sabena (Belgian national airway, supposedly stood for Such A Bloody Experience Never Again) formed an alliance with SwissAir.
In my younger days, I’ve made a fun pic of me standing next to a roadsign of Kloten with a piece of cardboard marking “ook”. “Kloten ook” is Flemish shorthand for “No way, you don’t believe that yourself, do you?”.
8 January 2007 at 20:24
Heh. “Klxf6ten” means the same thing in Germany too.
10 January 2007 at 09:46
Don’t forget the blogger get-together this Sunday (January 14th) beginning at noon at Zum Braunen Mutz. Be there!
24 January 2007 at 12:14
Come to think of it, the Swiss first name Reto is also snickeralicious in Dutch.
D
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