ezel

The Dutch words 'ezel' and 'wezel' do rhyme, certainly, little mermaid.
In fact, there is a children's rhyme that goes as follows:
- Hoe heet de burgemeester van Wezel?
You have to shout this into an 'echoput' (echoing well) and then the echo will answer:
… ezel … ezel … ezel …
Big fun!

For this to understand, you need to know what it means.
Hoe heet de burgemeester van Wezel? = What's the name of the mayor of the city Wezel?
The echo will then answer that it's … donkey.

Wezel is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Gelderland.
Wezel is also a village in Belgium.
Wesel (Dutch: Wezel) is also a German city.

Geography/tourism installment
- uh-oh you're far above average into geography, as well, and me?
I'm the geography buff who regularly tries to get Forum members to list geographic information in their profiles
Languages, music (especially on your part), meteorlogy, and now GEOGRAPHY. What are you not good at?
You Get D in Love

In line with your very good 'Hoe heet de burgemeester van Wezel' joke there is this one, adriverhoef:
Leise Adolf fragt:
"Wer regiert die grosse Welt?"
Echo antwortet:
"Roosevelt"

And the only joke I know, and which is widely wasted on most people (but I'm confident finally having found one who understands me/it) :
"What a nice medal you got there," one Russian says to the other.
"Yes, I got it for the Battle of Volgograd," the other Russian answers. "It was presented to me by Volgin himself."

Wezel - Wesel - Wesel-Büderich
The Belgian one I have not been to
the Gelderland one: maybe without knowing it, as it is just south of Arnhem; I'm not far enough writing my diary and fixing my photos to be able to tell
but after having visited Amerikaanse Begraafplaats in Margraten I spent the night in das Churchill Zimmer in German Wesel or Wesel-Büderich.
Beware of der Rhein sounding in a peculiar way thanks to some Flash trick.
Hotel Wacht am Rhein KLiK 'das Hotel' at the bottom of the page and then 'Geschichte'. That city/town took some flak in preparation for Operation Plunder that seems to dwarf Operation Market Garden by tons and tons of hardware, explosives, and men. 97% of all buildings were rendered useless. It is said to be that city in Central Europe that was destroyed the most. At the library I asked if they had any books about it, and they did "Der Untergang der Stadt Wesel" and upon returning home I ordered it here and it is hard to read emotionally. Walking the city illustrated for the most part that it was rebuilt -
some structures with the charm of the old but most in a functional manner. We need a roof, they seemed to say.

Well, back to how differently good marks/poor marks in school can affect someone's life
Don't Know Much about History
- are you allergic to dust mites
You may come out again.
Used the last rays of daylight to suck up those pesky beasts, or did I murder a number of an endangered species?

In the link it says:
Published on May 12, 2011
"Velkommen til Slip Dansktoppen Løs. Her er en kanal hvor du kan høre forskellig dansktop musik fra før og nu. Kommenter eller like gerne hvis du synes. Du kan også abbonere på kanalen hvis du vil høre mere god Dansk musik."

Thanks to "Annisette - Solen er så rød mor" I can now understand "Her er en kanal hvor du kan høre forskellig dansktop musik fra før og nu." without Google Translate. From the top of my head: "Here is a canal where you can hear (forskellig - it looks like 'vorstelijk' (royally) as if it means 'heerlijk' = delicious, but no, now I see: 'verschillende' = various, in 'Fries' it is 'ferskillend') Danish hit music from ('vroeger en nu') yesterday and today".
Also: "Du kan også abbonere på kanalen hvis du vil høre mere god Dansk musik." will probably be: "You can (også?) subscribe yourself (reflexive in Danish) to (the) canal when you want to hear more good Danish music."
Not quite sure about the other two sentences, although some words can easily be recognized.

I will translate the text underneath YouTube's Smilende Sussi from Danish to Frisian (I don't know much about Frisian, it's almost as unknown as Danish to me, but Frisian is — to Dutch people — somewhat like English) using Google Translate and see if we can get closer:
"Slip Dansktoppen Løs" = "Iepenje it Deensk top." (My guess: Untie the Danish top.)
"Wolkom by Slip Dansktoppen Loose. Hjir is in kanaal dêr't jo ferskate dûnsmuzyk (inserting a space: dansk top musik → Deensk topmuzyk) fan foardat en no hearre. Kommentaar of leafde as jo tinke. Jo kinne ek abonnearje op it kanaal as jo mear goede Deensk muzyk hearre wolle."
Now in Dutch (from the top of my head, I don't know Frisian) from Frisian: "Welkom bij Knoop je Deense top Los. Hier is een kanaal waar je verschillende Deense topmuziek van voorheen en nu hoort. Commentaar of liefde zoals je denkt. Je kunt je ook abonneren op het kanaal als je meer goede Deense muziek horen wilt."
Now in English (from Dutch) from the top of my head: "Welcome to Untie your Danish top. Here is a canal where you hear various Danish topmusic from the past and nowadays. Comment and love as you think. You can also subscribe to the canal if you want to hear more good Danish music."

BTW, Google Translate thinks this is good Dutch: "(Slip Dansktoppen Løs = ) Laat de Deense top los. ("Unrelease the Danish top")
Hier is een kanaal waar u voorheen en nu verschillende Deense topmuziek kunt horen.
("Here is a canal where you, formerly and now, can hear Danish topmusic.")
Reageer of als je denkt. ("React or if you think.")
U kunt ook abonneren (without reflexive ) op het kanaal als u meer goede Deense muziek wilt horen."
("You can also subscribe to the canal if you want to hear more good Danish music.")

How bad was it, little mermaid?

I'm afraid I hardly know the song. It wasn't a hit in the Netherlands, it didn't even make it into the Tipparade. And you know why?
This is the story. It was the 13th of May (- no problem to replicate that from the top of my head). It was a Saturday. The weather was very beautiful. The Netherlands were suddenly in big shock, because during the broadcast of the Eurovisiesongfestival (E: Eurovision Song Contest (ESC)) the news came in that a fireworks plant in the centre(!) of the city of Enschede in the east of the Netherlands exploded (final catastrophic blast at 2:18 there), killing 23 people, whereby 400 homes were destroyed and 1500 buildings damaged. The explosion could be heard as far as the city of Deventer, 60 km away (Enschede and Deventer both in the province of Overijssel, bordering to the south of Drenthe). The Dutch broadcast still started off at 9 o'clock, but was interrupted at 10 o'clock, right after the 13th Eurovisiesongfestivalliedje, sung by the 13th participant. So we were still able to see our own participant Linda Wagemakers, who entered as second on the bühne, but we didn't get to see the performance of the Olsen Brothers in the Netherlands, since the Olsens were the 14th(!) candidate.

On the subject of the word 'vuurwerk' (fireworks) Dutch pronunciation: click the loudspeaker, we also have the word 'vuurmuur' (firewall). Isn't that a beautiful Dutch alliterating word, vuurmuur? (click on the speaker to hear the word pronounced)
We have many short words ending in -uur:
uur = hour
buur = neighbour
duur = expensive (D: teuer)/duration
guur = bleak
huur = rent
kuur = cure
muur = wall
puur = pure
tuur (jij) = (do you) gaze
vuur = fire
zuur = sour/acid (zout + zuur = salt + acid; zoutzuur = HCl = hydrochloric acid; zuurstof = oxygen)
and … tureluur (Tringa totanus).

EDIT: bühne → bühne
EDIT2: + /duration

I'm quickly recovering, thank you.
Maybe, but then again, also not talented in a lot of fields. If you think you can take it easy, who will do all the work then?
Yes. You learn by making mistakes.

Of course, 'kanaal' = canal, channel (I chose the wrong translation, it had to be channel, indeed).
What is 'Perkele!'? Finnish for 'devil'? Dutch: 'Duivels!'
But what does 'også' mean?
I thought 'også' was a mistake (missing a space), consisting of the two words 'og' and 'så'. To understand my reasoning, you have to know that the Dutch word 'abonneren' is reflexive, we say "zich abonneren op" (F: s'abonner à). So I thought that 'også' had something to do with "yourself". Now I understand that 'også' means 'also' (Dutch: ook).
Yes, I was aware that I skipped a few words, because I didn't understand them.

She didn't. You did by providing the Danish lyrics upon which I decided to … Google Translate the text. So I learnt a few basic Danish words. De zon is zo rood, moeder: Solen er så rød, mor.

You mean using the red pencil? Well, you didn't explain 'også', that's why I cryptically wrote "(også?)", but somehow I understood in the end. And I don't understand "Who wants to be rented by a canal?" yet, although I understand "to subscribe to" and "zich abonneren op" (reflexive) and "s'abonner à" (reflexive) and "abonnere på".