Talk:Manneken Pis

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I must correct you on the creator of Manneken Pis, who was Jerôme Duquesnoy (the old)and not François who was his son, who was brother of the famous Jerôme (the young) who again got famous for his fine sculptures and who was strangeled to death and burned afterwards for sodomy with young boys in the St-Baafs cathedral in Ghent. The foreign force that occupied belgium in the 14th century was surely Spanish.

Alann De Vuyst artist from Belgium my artwebsite: wwww.shopart.com/devuyst

It would be immenseley useful if there were a picture of the statue sans clothes. Most statues are naked, after all. We already have two pics with clothes; we need a naked one. --Golbez 04:00, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)

So how tall is it, anyway? lol it is so funny!!!! but i do belive that the creator of the mannekn pis, was not jerome duquensoy nor francois is was in fact roland jhuaung.

Pis-ing Beer
My ex-girlfriend was in Brussels a few years back and stumbled upon a crowd around Manneken Pis "dispensing" lambic (kriek I think). Does anyone know more about this? Is this something that happens regularly? She has photos of a crowd of people surrounding a guy with plastic cups holding them under his, um, dispenser. Joseph N Hall 06:52, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Added a Citation Needed to the line mentioning this. Sounds pretty dubious to me. Canine virtuoso (talk) 00:42, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

This happens quite regularly actually, I added a citation from the newspaper of today (in Dutch though).--Eigenwijze mustang (talk) 11:10, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Not gifted to Japan from Belgian Embassy
This article incorrectly states that a replica of the statue is in Tokushima, Japan and "was a present from the Belgian embassy (Tokushima being twinned with Brussels)." Though there is a statue of a boy peeing in Iya Valley, Tokushima, it is not a replica (the boys look different) and was created by the Japanese artist Yoshiyuki Kawasaki in 1968 in honor of how boys traditionally liked to pee from this cliff-side spot. (This is correctly stated in the Japanese Wikipedia entry for Manneken Pis) Further, Tokushima is not a sister city of Brussels or any other Belgian city, and Brussels has no sister city affiliation with anywhere in Japan. Therefore, this reference will be deleted. 202.67.23.223 (talk) 07:45, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Etymology
Menneke cannot be the the diminutive of men, because men does not mean 'boy' but 'people in general'. Menneke just is the diminutive of manneke  (I am an native speaker of Dutch and in the Dutch dictionary Van Dale men has multiple meanings, but none of those is boy) Pftm (talk) 12:17, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Men means 'boy' in Brusseleir dialect which explains why it is not referenced as such in the Dutch dictionary Van Dale. I agree that the article is ambiguous, as it also states that 'men' means 'boy' in Dutch or Flemish, which it is not the case. Jason Lagos (talk) 19:10, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Las Vegas
Would it be appropriate to mention the replica at the D hotel in Downtown Vegas? 64.72.99.149 (talk) 23:45, 24 November 2023 (UTC)