Mookie heads to Turkey

[moqui]

Lukoil lands the 489th best player in the NBA

Someone give Mookie a copy of Midnight Express before he gets on that plane.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

Lukoil lands the 489th best player in the NBA

Someone give Mookie a copy of Midnight Express before he gets on that plane.

I was really excited and thought we were talking about Theodore Jones for a minute.

Happy for the original Mookie though.

 

[CusefanATL]

I was really excited and thought we were talking about Theodore Jones for a minute.

Happy for the original Mookie though.

as was i

 

[Gabjon]

I was really excited and thought we were talking about Theodore Jones for a minute.

Happy for the original Mookie though.

That makes 3 of us

 

[PoppyHart]

It couldn't be about Mookie Jones b/c we all know he went to the money.

And anybody who's seen/heard Howard Stern knows about the devalued Turkish lira.

 

[SaintTristan]

Turkey is now the second best league in the world. fun place to live.

 

[igor]

Turkey is now the second best league in the world. fun place to live.

long time no hear. missed the give and take

 

[orangefog]

Turkey is now the second best league in the world. fun place to live.

Istanbul has bid for the Olympics in 2020. I am hoping that I have to be there. We were hoping that Madrid will win the bid over Tokyo and Istanbul, because I am completely ignorant of Istanbul and Turkey does not seem like a place I would like to go. Can you share any incite about the city?

 

[sutomcat]

Istanbul has bid for the Olympics in 2020. I am hoping that I have to be there. We were hoping that Madrid will win the bid over Tokyo and Istanbul, because I am completely ignorant of Istanbul and Turkey does not seem like a place I would like to go. Can you share any incite about the city?

Stan just likes it because it is one of the only major cities with his name in it.

Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night
Every gal in Constantinople
lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
so if you've got a date in Constantinople
she'll be waiting in Istanbul

Even old New York
was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way

So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
Istanbul
Linkage

 

[orangefog]

Stan just likes it because it is one of the only major cities with his name in it.

I knew there had to be an agenda.

 

[Moontan]

Stan just likes it because it is one of the only major cities with his name in it.

I believe the official line is that they named the city after him.

Even old New York
was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way

Apparently they're not Mental Giants.
That would've been "Nieuw Amsterdam".

As to why the name change? Really? The face saving line is that the Brits and Stuyvesant swapped it for Surinam. The real reason is that the Brits brought more guns. Once the city was theirs, why would they leave it named after their enemy's capital?

Oh, what might've been...

 

[sutomcat]

I believe the official line is that they named the city after him.


Apparently they're not Mental Giants.
That would've been "Nieuw Amsterdam".

As to why the name change? Really? The face saving line is that the Brits and Stuyvesant swapped it for Surinam. The real reason is that the Brits brought more guns. Once the city was theirs, why would they leave it named after their enemy's capital?

Oh, what might've been...

If the Dutch had held strong, Nieuw Amsterdam would be bathed in orange and Syracuse University would be the nation's team.

Oh, wat had kunnen zijn!

Vanavond kijken uit naar sommige monster dunks!

Why the Dutch Love Orange

 

[Moontan]

If the Dutch had held strong, Nieuw Amsterdam would be bathed in orange and Syracuse University would be the nation's team.

Oh, wat had kunnen zijn!

Vanavond kijken uit naar sommige monster dunks!

I'll give you an 'A' for effort. Your translation service, not so much.