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Curacao

Curaçao
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About Curacao

Curaçao, officially the Country of Curaçao, is a constituent country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is an island country located in the southern Caribbean Sea, specifically the Dutch Caribbean region, about 65 km (40 mi) north of Venezuela and 80 km (50 mi) southeast of Aruba. Curaçao includes the main island of Curaçao, and the much smaller, uninhabited island of Klein Curaçao.

On the show4 mentions total

You probably wouldn't think it was named after the medical condition of having very big testicles. I don't know what... Is this a drink? A blue ball? Blue balls is it's the it's the brand name of Curacao. Oh I don't know that. I've not had it. Yeah. Okay. Or Balls Blue maybe. Okay. You call it Balls Blue. Yeah Curacao do you know what it was invented? The Netherlands. In Flanders. Ah okay. Close enough. On Boulder. Maybe.

from Little Fish: Chromosomes are coming home, 2026-07-12 at 00:04:38 · read transcript

Other times Curacao came up

  1. Quite a lot more members, actually. It's got 17 more members than the UN. Most of these members are tiny little colonies like American Samoa, Anguilla, Aruba, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cook Islands, Curacao, Faroe Islands, Guam, Hong Kong is a member of FIFA, Macau, Montserrat, New Caledonia, Palestine is a member of FIFA, but not of the UN. Of course, Scotland, Northern Ireland, England and Wales.

    17: No Such Thing As A Bassoon In A Football Stadium, 2014-07-11 · listen

  2. Ah okay. Close enough. On Boulder. Maybe on Belgium just about. Yeah because so in Belgium as opposed to the Netherlands but because Curacao is a Dutch colony they could get the oranges from Curacao. They're really bitter and you don't really want to eat them but the orange skin is really nice if you boil it down with alcohol. Nice. That's what they make it out of.

    Little Fish: Chromosomes are coming home, 2026-07-12 · listen

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