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- From: cloyd_j@apollo.hp.com (John Cloyd)
- Subject: re: Norwegian Wood
- Originator: cloyd_j@face_plant
- Sender: usenet@apollo.hp.com (Usenet News)
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:00:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.122100.5638W@baron.edb.tih.no> sveint@edb.tih.no writes:
- >To be honest, I'm very dissapionted.
- >I just joined up with this conference, hoping to read something
- >useful about skiing.
- >What I found was this:
- >A lot of nerds talking about bars and hotels!!!!!!!!!!
- >You guys have really got a problem.
- >A serious one.
- >
- >I'll be looking forward to any response to this.
- >
- > Svein Tjoenndal
- > Cross-country skiing, the first (and real) winter sport
- > was invented in Norway by vikings about 500 AD.
- > (I guess you just didn't know...)
-
- This makes me feel very guilty, and I apologize Svein, for not
- keeping your needs in mind. I've meditated on your sig. and have
- come up with some "real" ski issues that even the Vikings should be
- able to get interested in...
-
- 1. Everytime I ski glades, the damned horns sticking out of my helmet
- get caught in the branches. I tried replacing them with rubber horns,
- which would bend, but the rest of the Vikings tease me. What should I
- do ?
-
- 2. As a sign of respect for the inventors of cross country skiing, I
- always wear a Viking helmet when I go. Unfortunately, it is rutting
- season in the north woods, and moose keep attacking me. I left my
- shield home because I could not carry both it and my poles. Is anyone
- else having this problem ?
-
- 3. Why is it that the disrespectful U.S. touring centers do not carry
- Tuborg beer in their bars ? Perhaps they don't know who invented this
- sport ?
-
- Any others that I missed ?
-
- Have a good weekend,
-
- jc in me.
-
-