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Originally posted by Stroggy@Oct 17 2004, 06:54 PM
hahahaha
Hoboken.
sorry, I laugh because Hoboken is a working-class neighbourhood in Antwerp, known for a high concentration of cleaninglady+factoryemployee families.
and a low concentration of IQ
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The city is part of the urban sprawl of Northern New Jersey in the US, and was named after the town you mention. It was settled by the Dutch, and it's approximately 30 minutes away from New York City--which of course, they settled first, as New Amsterdam.
"Hoboken" was deliberately chosen because it's so prosaic, so unheroic and ordinary: a dull, grey, ugly industrial place.
Come to think of it, it sounds like the Dutch and US versions have a lot in common.
Great game, by the way. One of Meretzky's late attempts to find a new form for his wild humor as the PC market was changing. I found it a bit too topical at times (you had to know a good deal about American baseball to solve one major puzzle, for instance), but a lot had me laughing out loud.