From: norsgerm@a...........   
      
   "Gunilla Fagerholm"  wrote in message   
   news:44c1df58.4993572@news1.telia.com...   
   > On 21 Jul 2006 11:26:54 -0700, "jill"  wrote:   
   >   
   >>squatters: Here's on to cheer up Gunilla and Kurt   
   >>   
   >>A farmer was in town one day and was telling the butcher that he had a   
   >>pack of dogs living under his front porch and didn't know how to get   
   >>rid of them.   
   >>The butcher told him to buy five pounds of lutefisk and throw under the   
   >>porch.   
   >>So he bought some before he went home and that night he threw it under   
   >>the porch.   
   >>The next time he was in town  the butcher asked him if he got rid of   
   >>the dogs. The farmer told him he got up the next morning and looked and   
   >>the dogs were gone, and a couple of days later he wanted to make sure   
   >>they were gone so he looked under the porch and sure enough the dogs   
   >>were gone but two Norwegian families had moved in.   
   >>jill   
   >   
   > Thanks a lot. LOL. Feeling much better now.   
   > Wonder what would have happened if they had used surstromming   
   > (fermented herring) instead?   
   > Gunilla   
      
   I'll have to ask my dad about that one. Sounds like the 'kimshe' (sp) of the   
   north.   
   Kurt   
   >>   
   >>Kurt wrote:   
   >>> jill, don't talk like that. Don't you know what 'buying the farm is'?   
   >>> Kurt   
   >>> PS remember when Swen and Ole (correct spelling) went fishing. They used   
   >>> dynomite.   
   >>> got lots of fish.   
   >>> When the game warden came and tried to stop them they handed him a lit   
   >>> stick   
   >>> of dynomite and said, 'You fish for a 'vile.   
   >>> "jill"  wrote in message   
   >>> news:1153504699.131907.28330@s13g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...   
   >>> > see how they are! I suppose next thing you know Kurt is going to buy   
   >>> > my   
   >>> > farm. Time to pull out the Norwegian joke book Irene.   
   >>> > jill   
   >>> > Irene Andersson wrote:   
   >>> >> On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:52:41 -0500, "Kurt"    
   >>> >> wrote:   
   >>> >>   
   >>> >>   
   >>> >> >PS we had a severe shortage of concrete septic tanks some years ago   
   >>> >> >here   
   >>> >> >in   
   >>> >> >the states. Seems they were all exported to Norway and were lined up   
   >>> >> >on   
   >>> >> >the   
   >>> >> >border for a planned 'tank invasion' of Sweden.   
   >>> >>   
   >>> >> LOL..   
   >>> >> The fact is, the richer norwegians are invading Sweden, buying land,   
   >>> >> houses, factories and companies, and we don't mind at all. Many of us   
   >>> >> would rather belong to Norway than be a part of the European Union..   
   >>> >>   
   >>> >> Irene Andersson   
   >   
   >   
      
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