{"id":7653,"date":"2022-03-04T13:24:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T13:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/?p=7653"},"modified":"2022-03-04T13:24:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T13:24:50","slug":"have-you-heard-of-dutchman-aldies-ghoet-koper-neither-has-he-jokes-names-dutch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/have-you-heard-of-dutchman-aldies-ghoet-koper-neither-has-he-jokes-names-dutch\/","title":{"rendered":"You Heard Of Dutchman Aldies Ghoet-Koper? Neither Has He."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because he doesn&#8217;t exist!\u00a0<em>Aldies Ghoet-Koper <\/em>is a fictional character created forever ago by Caz! radio &#8211; a\u00a0<em>radiostation\u00a0<\/em>(radio station) in the Netherlands. Listen to the fragment below. Why was this character created, though, and what&#8217;s so funny about this? Here are Dutch jokes with names.<\/p>\n<h1><strong>Aldi is cheaper<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Caz! - Aldi is Goedkoper\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aQhTw4MAnX0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no secret that\u00a0<em>supermarkten\u00a0<\/em>(supermarkets) fight for our attention with ever lower\u00a0<em>prijzen\u00a0<\/em>(prices) and better\u00a0<em>kwaliteit\u00a0<\/em>(quality). So when Caz! decided to call <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/a-few-great-things-about-albert-heijn\/\">Albert Heijn<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/the-new-family-of-grocer-albert-heijn\/\">dominant\u00a0<em>supermarktketen\u00a0<\/em>(super market chain) in the Netherlands<\/a>, they wanted to get them to admit a truth that we&#8217;ve all known for years: German\u00a0<em>supermarktketen\u00a0<\/em>Aldi is cheaper than Albert Heijn. But how could you get them to say this? They found a pretty funny way. Here&#8217;s how the call went, that you can listen to above.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goedemiddag, Albert Heijn XL Alkmaar, u spreekt met\u00a0<\/em>(no idea what her name is).<\/p>\n<p><em>Dag, met Hans Koper! Zou je mijn zoontje kunnen omroepen?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Hoe oud is uw zoontje?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Acht jaar, blond koppie.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Hoe heet uw zoontje, voor- en achternaam?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mijn zoontje&#8230; Aldies is zijn voornaam &#8211; A-L-D-I-E-S, en zijn achternaam is &#8211; hij heeft een dubbele achternaam, van zijn moeder en vader &#8211; Ghoet &#8211; G-H-O-E-T, en een streepje, Koper.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Aldies Ghoet-Koper?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ja!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ik ga hem even omroepen<\/em>.\u00a0<em>Momentje.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Aldies Ghoet-Koper, Aldies Ghoet-Koper, wil je je even melden bij de servicebalie?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And the English translation:<\/p>\n<p>Good afternoon, Albert Heijn XL Alkmaar, you&#8217;re speaking with &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hi, it&#8217;s Hans Koper! Could you call for my son?<\/p>\n<p>How old is your son?<\/p>\n<p>Eight years, he&#8217;s blond.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your son&#8217;s first and last name?<\/p>\n<p>My son&#8230; Aldies is his first name &#8211; A-L-D-I-E-S, and his last name is &#8211; he has a double last name, of his mother and father &#8211; Ghoet &#8211; G-H-O-E-T, and a dash, Koper.<\/p>\n<p>Aldies Ghoet-Koper?<\/p>\n<p>Yes!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll call for him now. One moment.<\/p>\n<p>Aldies Ghoet-Koper, Aldies Ghoet-Koper, could you come to the service desk?<\/p>\n<p>It then takes her a little more to figure out that\u00a0<em>ze haar in de maling hebben genomen\u00a0<\/em>(they fooled her). At the end, the radio host says\u00a0<em>Zegt u nou dat Aldi goedkoper is? Dan ga ik daar wel heen!\u00a0<\/em>(Are you saying that Aldi is cheaper? Well, then I&#8217;ll go there instead!)<\/p>\n<p>After all,\u00a0<em>Aldi is\u00a0<\/em>in speech could become\u00a0<em>Aldies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A little mean, a little funny, just a joke with a name. Though this one is quite crazy, as neither Aldies, nor Ghoet nor Koper are common names in Dutch.<\/p>\n<p>But there are other versions, of course.<\/p>\n<h1><strong>Peter and Connie<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_7656\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/fNl6V89VYgM\" aria-label=\"Ezra Jeffrey Comeau FNl6V89VYgM Unsplash 1024x686\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7656\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7656\"  alt=\"Jokes with names name jokes puns aldies goedkoper peter selie parsley\" width=\"1024\" height=\"686\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/03\/ezra-jeffrey-comeau-fNl6V89VYgM-unsplash-1024x686.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/03\/ezra-jeffrey-comeau-fNl6V89VYgM-unsplash-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/03\/ezra-jeffrey-comeau-fNl6V89VYgM-unsplash-350x235.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/03\/ezra-jeffrey-comeau-fNl6V89VYgM-unsplash-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/03\/ezra-jeffrey-comeau-fNl6V89VYgM-unsplash-1536x1030.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/03\/ezra-jeffrey-comeau-fNl6V89VYgM-unsplash.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter, is that you? (Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@emcomeau?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Ezra Jeffrey-Comeau<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/s\/photos\/parsley?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There are similar jokes out there. For example, there&#8217;s the joke of <strong>Peter Selie<\/strong>.\u00a0<em>Peterselie\u00a0<\/em>means parsley, but\u00a0<em>Peter\u00a0<\/em>is also a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/whats-up-with-all-the-peters-de-vries\/\">very common Dutch first name.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So you get something like this:<\/p>\n<p><em>Je krijgt de groeten van Peter!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Welke Peter?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Peter Selie! Haha!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Peter says hi!<\/p>\n<p>Which Peter?<br \/>\nPeter Selie! Haha!)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verhalenbank.nl\/items\/show\/14082\">more elaborate version that&#8217;s pretty good, actually.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s another person: <strong>Connie Veren<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a joke I found from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bokt.nl\/forums\/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=1030428&amp;start=175\">all the way back in 2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The colleague of the poster worked at <em>Intratuin<\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">,<\/span> a garden center. They asked for Connie Veren, in a similar way as Caz! asked Albert Heijn about Aldies Ghoet-Koper.<\/p>\n<p>So she asked her colleagues, who couldnt&#8217;t stop laughing. Connie Veren!<\/p>\n<p>After all,\u00a0<em>coniferen\u00a0<\/em>are conifers, and\u00a0<em>Connie\u00a0<\/em>is a pretty normal Dutch name.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are there jokes like this with names in your language? Do you know other Dutch ones? I would love to know, so please comment below!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"235\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/03\/ezra-jeffrey-comeau-fNl6V89VYgM-unsplash-350x235.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Jokes with names name jokes puns aldies goedkoper peter selie parsley\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/03\/ezra-jeffrey-comeau-fNl6V89VYgM-unsplash-350x235.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/03\/ezra-jeffrey-comeau-fNl6V89VYgM-unsplash-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/03\/ezra-jeffrey-comeau-fNl6V89VYgM-unsplash-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/03\/ezra-jeffrey-comeau-fNl6V89VYgM-unsplash-1536x1030.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/03\/ezra-jeffrey-comeau-fNl6V89VYgM-unsplash.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Because he doesn&#8217;t exist!\u00a0Aldies Ghoet-Koper is a fictional character created forever ago by Caz! radio &#8211; a\u00a0radiostation\u00a0(radio station) in the Netherlands. Listen to the fragment below. Why was this character created, though, and what&#8217;s so funny about this? Here are Dutch jokes with names. Aldi is cheaper It&#8217;s no secret that\u00a0supermarkten\u00a0(supermarkets) fight for our attention&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/have-you-heard-of-dutchman-aldies-ghoet-koper-neither-has-he-jokes-names-dutch\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":7656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[60713,27711],"tags":[506122,2153,8033,7912],"class_list":["post-7653","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-2","category-dutch-vocabulary-2","tag-dutch-comedy","tag-fun","tag-jokes","tag-radio"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7658,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7653\/revisions\/7658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}