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I learned something I didn't know before today.
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I learned something I didn't know before today.
January 15, 2018 at 8:01 am
I was watching Different Strokes which comes on after Facts Of Life. In the episode Willis gets bad grades and cant play on the school basketball team until he gets is grades up. So Mr Drummond hires a tutor. The tutor asks Arnold what the original name of New York City was. "Nieuw Amsterdam". I looked it up and yep. As an aside the larger area besides the Island was called "Nieuw Nederland".

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City
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RE: I learned something I didn't know before today.
January 15, 2018 at 8:32 am (This post was last modified: January 15, 2018 at 8:33 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
You were watching Diff'rent Strokes?
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January 15, 2018 at 9:09 am
(January 15, 2018 at 8:32 am)Mathilda Wrote: You were watching Diff'rent Strokes?

Yea and? 

I liked that show. So yea I do watch the reruns just like Facts Of Life.
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RE: I learned something I didn't know before today.
January 15, 2018 at 1:07 pm
"National Treasure" mentions this.
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RE: I learned something I didn't know before today.
January 15, 2018 at 2:59 pm (This post was last modified: January 15, 2018 at 3:00 pm by Aegon.)
(January 15, 2018 at 1:07 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: "National Treasure" mentions this.

My childhood education mentions this.

But I was born in NY
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RE: I learned something I didn't know before today.
January 15, 2018 at 3:11 pm
(January 15, 2018 at 8:32 am)Mathilda Wrote: You were watching Diff'rent Strokes?

Wait. Is it the eighties again?



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RE: I learned something I didn't know before today.
January 15, 2018 at 3:12 pm
Yep.  It was the damned Dutch who couldn't lay out the streets in lower Manhattan in a straight line.  I hated driving down there.
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RE: I learned something I didn't know before today.
January 15, 2018 at 3:18 pm
(January 15, 2018 at 3:11 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:
(January 15, 2018 at 8:32 am)Mathilda Wrote: You were watching Diff'rent Strokes?

Wait. Is it the eighties again?

I didn't think I was claiming it was. 

I like those shows, just like I like ABBA and Metallica, and even today's Big Bang Theory.
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RE: I learned something I didn't know before today.
January 15, 2018 at 3:22 pm
Yup.

There was even a TV show based in New York called New Amsterdam.

Diff'rent Stroke?

Man, I haven't seen even a repeat of that in years.

Only the actor who played Willis is still alive, I believe.

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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RE: I learned something I didn't know before today.
January 15, 2018 at 3:36 pm
(January 15, 2018 at 3:11 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:
(January 15, 2018 at 8:32 am)Mathilda Wrote: You were watching Diff'rent Strokes?

Wait. Is it the eighties again?

I think that's the last time I saw it.

Personally I hid in my bedroom until the 90's came along.
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