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- From: petterb@dhhalden.no (PETTER BRUSERUD)
- Subject: Re: re: Norwegian Wood
- Message-ID: <petterb.14.722555151@dhhalden.no>
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- Organization: Ostfold College
- References: <By191F.5rr@apollo.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:45:51 GMT
-
- In article <By191F.5rr@apollo.hp.com> cloyd_j@apollo.hp.com (John Cloyd) writes:
- >From: cloyd_j@apollo.hp.com (John Cloyd)
- >Subject: re: Norwegian Wood
- >Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:00:51 GMT
- >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.
- >
- It's okay to be sarcastic but do it right! Tuborg is not Norwegian, it's
- Danish!!
-
- Petter - who prefer Norwegian beer....
-