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Venice

Venice
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About Venice

Venice is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the region of Veneto. It is built on a group of 126 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are linked by 472 bridges.

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There was a song a few years before both of these characters came along that was quite popular called Dennis the Menace from Venice. Most people think that the reason that they came at the same time is because they were both inspired by this song, which had become quite popular.

from 324: No Such Thing As Mambo No. 2, 2020-06-05 at 00:21:35 · read transcript

Other times Venice came up

  1. What he surmises is that that bird then taught the song to all the other Liarbirds. So what we're hearing now in the fall in 1969 in the forest was like a recording of a 1930s song that that guy had played on his flute. It was that song about the Dennis the Menace from Venice. We should make full orchestras out of birds to save us having to carve all these instruments out of bear limbs.

    324: No Such Thing As Mambo No. 2, 2020-06-05 · listen

  2. All the other lyrebirds and so what we're hearing now in 1969 in the forest was like a recording of a 1930s song that that guy had played on his flute and it was that song about the Dennis the Menace from Venice, wasn't it?

    No Such Thing As Mambo No. 2, 2020-06-05 · listen

  3. Yeah. Even though that probably didn't happen, but you know, it was a like screw you middle finger to the people who said it would never happen. Because it took almost a hundred years to be built from when it was promised. The whole of Venice it was a joke that no one was ever gonna build it. Really? They did do that sculpture as a middle finger.

    582: No Such Thing As Siegfried Bassoon, 2025-05-08 · listen

  4. Just one more thing about Venezuela. Do you know what it means, the name, Venezuela? It means little Venice. Oh, I didn't know that. In spite of the fact that this is almost completely unlike the North London area known as Little Venice. It's not even like Venice either, really. No, but they will have named it when they arrived at the Gulf of Maracaibo or whatever it's called. Exactly, Lake Maracaibo, yeah.

    158: No Such Thing As A Weasel's Fridge, 2017-03-31 · listen

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