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

Swedes are always there for their neighbours. When they have nothing better to do anyway. And perhaps with the exeption for skiing.

In the 80's, we had stars like "Gunde Svan" and "Tomas Vassberg". We won everything. Nowdays, norway has totally taken over with those guys "Ulvang" and "Dählie". That is truly hard for a swede to take, and we get genuinely pissed every time norway wins the gold in that sport. Otherwise, we have the best of relationships betwen our countries.

(Perhaps I might add that swedes are sometimes a little gellous about
all the oil they dig up over there.)

I remember flared trousers cosseting the girls pert bottoms.
Dribble, drool.

AG

Mmmmm... cosseting.

First of all, I hope everyone noticed that I corrected the subject. Secondly, might Swedish, Norwegian,
Danish and Icelandic be a little more comprehensible to you because they are Germanic languages
and Finnish is not? As a Finn I find this conversation frustrating. Btw, if you are bored to vodkas of all kind,
check out the Finnish version of The Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster on my home page. It gives an extra flavour
to that old vodka taste.

Well, if you really want to be pedantic - and if anyone actually is still taking part in this conversation - France should be classified as one of the Nordic countries, and hence part of Scandinavia. The north-western province of Normandy was discovered and conquered by the Vikings and named after them - the "North-men". The Normans later attacked and invaded England, which should therefore also be classified as Nordic. The Normans went everywhere, giving their name to a round-arched school of architecture - recently resurrected by the post-modernists - and to a peculiarly English breed of slapstick comics who fall about a lot.

...Likewise then, Russia and the Ukraine. Moscow and Kiev were founded by Vikings... And Newfoundland, Canada... And Minnestoa, USA (so they claim).

Aren't there some really wonderful words in the english language?
Monty Python, I think, collated them into "wooden" words = good, "tin" words = bad, nice idea.
What do you think of, say, fumble, NOT a nice word, almost onomatopoeiac and off putting!
If I could be bothered I would start a list/topic on it.

AG

Ha! The thought struck me a milisecend before I read it (reflections in my glasses?).

You could do a lot worse, you know (wo-o-o-orse, sounds a bit woody).

Here you go:

Alllllll...ba...troSS.

Minnesota - I can hardly believe it! What do they speak there, then? Broodish - Swedish with a Brooklyn accent? You can hardly claim this as part of Scandinavia... No, the Scandinavian countries are (and this is, I believe, a definitive listing) Sweden, Norway, Denmark and - er... Finland... - I think, depending on whether they're within the Iron Curtain sphere or not. Oops... we haven't got that any more now - I meant to say "Baltic"!
And on the subject of Himmelbjerget in Jylland (the highest mountain in Denmark at 300 metres), I remember the Norwegian who stood gazing at this wonder of nature for all Danes, and said "hmm, in Norway this is what we call a valley..."

I didn't know a bottom could be pert, but it's quite a nice thought...

pert botty?

depends what one read for one's english education I suppose.

AG

ps
Scroll, now tnat is a nice woody word.

Oh, yeah...

"Albumen"

how about - mulch -
a word to drool over.


AG

Good one.

It fits right in with "comp-ost" and "soil-l-l". Self-lubricating words such as these are what keep my interest in gardening fresh. Oh... almost forgot... "wo-o--orms".

A home-hitting un-nice word could be, possibly - weeding ?


AG

AAAH! What a horrible tinny word!

JTG