A couple of hours off the plane, in Dam for New Year 2008 and my mate N who's high as a kite decides to walk face first into the locked door of the Bereau De Change on Damrak, falling backwards flat on his arse.
Not sure who found it funnier: his mates or the gorgeous blonde who was locking up at the time.
A friend and I were smoking a j at one of the tables outside of Stone's Cafe in the shadow of the Oude Kerk's bell tower. Of course you have the "working ladies" tapping on the glass trying to drum up some buisness. I look up to first notice the usual tour group by the church, second I notice the drunk pissing on the church. Now we are laughing at the whole thing when the drunk (now finished shaking the dew off his lilly) goes over to the tour group and starts to try to bum a cigarette from them...
We had to leave before we had to go pee on the church.
Don't know about funny ,but certainly perplexing or odd...anyway back in November 06...de vrouw,de kid and de friend had just gotten off de plane ...First trip to the continent for the latter two ...Yanks know that feeling on arrival day ,long flight ,culture shock ...so we've had our welcome Joint of Suzitiva with the staff at Fantasia (back in the golden era for that hotel when Suzy owned it) ...and had just finished our first CS stop at Basjoes the noobs are awestruck by their first hours in the dam ...Remember that feeling ?..It's still early Saturday , we're heading down K'B"wal toward the river -thats before they trashed it out with construction ...pleasantly ripped , and these rather straightlaced middle aged Amsterdammers ask us would we twirl their jumprope so they could get a group pic of themselves airborn...So de Vrouw and I are like wtf ,but sure ...So we start the "Cinderella ,dressed in Yella ", Yank school kid jumprope chant and away we go ..."went upstairs to kiss her fella ..." ,one after another they all join in ..."made a mistake ,kissed a snake "....so theres like ten people hoppin up and down in perfect rhythm ,a transcendental moment almost...the cameraman is clickin shots ...suddenly WHAM !! Noone was watchin our backs. This perfectly respectable looking 'dammer crossing the little plein there by theNH Doelen ,just out on his own business gets slammed by the rope ...glasses and hat go flying ... "how many doctors did it take "....luckily none ...the jumpers snapped out of their hip hop zen moment and chilled things out nicely ... Beware of the Amsterdam Saturday Morning Jumprope crew ,or at least hope someones watchin yer back ...
just happened to be in the dam for this as i'm sure darwin witnessed it many times...staying at the american hotel with one of those cool little lanai/balcony/terrace (whatever you want to call it!) areas. i'm out there smoking a spliff when a little finch (?) flies up on the railing, then another one flies up next to it...it hops on top of the other one for a quickie (about 2 seconds at most!) and then both birds were off and gone
Myself, my girlfriend and a few friends were in Amsterdam a couple of years ago. On the last day we were burning time in coffeeshops, just going from one to another heading towards central station. We were walking up into Nieuwmarkt when we see two guys trying to fish a shoe out of a canal.
The shoe was ever so slowly drifting towards the middle of the canal floating on the sole so that the shoe was not submerged at all.
The strategy the two guys adopted was for one of them to effectively dangle the other over the canal by holding his feet, allowing him to stretch out and grab the shoe.
After a couple of minutes a crowd had amassed and a few people were filming the ludicrous scene on their mobiles when.... PLOP!!!
The fella being dangled over the canal had his phone in his shirt pocket and it had dropped straight into the canal.
The poor sole was left without a phone and one of his shoes had come to a standstill - floating in the middle of the canal, comfortably out of reach.
Despite feeling for the fella, it was immensely funny!
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Yep thats him alright
