h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

What a friendly lot you are; confirms all the good stuff i already found out about the Nordic types!

And for those in HC, quelle surprise i am on there as zendevil; so do wander around frogland until you spot Angoulême & there i am!

(All welcome to drop by if anywhere near)

Sköl! Slaînte!

zdt

You are welcome indeed. And we have the next meet-up scheduled too. But you don't plan to come north, do you?

Hmm; it would be extremely difficult 'cos of lack of money stuff. Ah well...

zdt

Yeah, the usual. Otherwise I'd be on my way already.

We should get someone really geekily mathematically good at co-ordinates & longitudes & latitudes (& attitudes?) to work out the exact spot on the planet that is equidistant from all who want to go to the meet.

Probably some small field of turnips somewhere.

Then form a campaign, contact the mayor, get Charitable Status, get twinned with the opposite co-ordinate in the Southern hemisphere, write a pop song about it, go on You Tube & auction the CD's on Ebay.

Form a Limited Company (all monies into Swish Bonk A Count) thus providing us all with travel Funds. Erect a monument & base a new religion around it....gawd, what is is to have Delusions of Gran, deer.

zdt

So Danes have jokes about Swedes? Odd, because I don't think Swedes have jokes about Danes - other than in jokes in the style of 'A Swede, a Norwegian, a Dane and a Finn...'

Swedes joke a lot about Norwegians though... and vice versa!

"Keep Copenhagen clean, guide a Swede to the ferry" (In the old days before the Bridge...)

There's that...

Actually, most of the jokes we have are about people from the town of Århus - so we do generally keep it within our own borders, Nice, innit? Very many of them are the same as Brits-Irish, French-Belgian, Swedes-Norwegians, etc.

years ago they made a survey to decide, which nordic nation was the most popular

most norwegians liked the danes best
so did the majority of swedes
and the finns
and the danes...

A Norwegian, a Dane and a Finn were captured by cannibals. Never having seen white men before, the cannibals were not sure how to cook them.

They cooked the Norwegian for 1 hour, but he had a funny taste of oil.

They cooked the Dane for 2 hours, but he had a funny taste of beer.

They cooked the Finn for 3 hours, but when they took the lid off the huge pot, the Finn got up and asked 'where's the towel?'

(this story is better told out loud, as that last sentence is supposed to be in a quite heavy Finnish accent)

That's a good one.

i remember telling rupert a joke about two old finnish geezers and he was very puzzled and said 'hey, that's the same joke we tell about these two old swedish geezers'

Neighbours.

My grandmother (on dad's side) is Norwegian, and his father is (mostly) Swedish. When I was a kid, I heard a great joke and ran to tell it to them. "Did you hear about Norway's new zoo? They put a fence around Sweden! Har, har, har."

You could switch the countries around, depending on which grandparent I was telling it to. Endless fun!

well, even if nobody asked i may as well tell the afore-mentioned joke:

these two old finns - Jokke and Jorma - were up in the woods somewhere drinking in their cabin when all of a sudden there was no more booze

after a while Jokke said to Jorma: - are you sure we are completely out of booze?

Jorma: - yup

Jokke: - ah

so they were quiet for a while (and according to every stereotype finns are famous for being exactly that )

after a while Jokke said: - are you absolutely positive?

Jorma: - yup

Jokke: -ah

but then Jorma added: - well, we have some methanol. but that'll make you blind, you know

Jokke: - yeah

after a long while Jokke said: - how old are you?

Jorma: - 78

Jokke: - well, i am 82 - haven't we seen enough?