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To: SunkenCiv

“Danish King Harald Bluetooth” Wow! They had Bluetooth back then.


3 posted on 12/19/2014 11:50:19 PM PST by mkmensinger
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To: mkmensinger

He fronted a Danish boy band too, you know: Harald Melvin and the Viking Blueteeth.
“If You Don’t Know Me By Now”? They liked to cover that a capella when pillaging villages.


4 posted on 12/20/2014 12:00:02 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: mkmensinger; tumblindice

Well, *he* had Bluetooth. He also had a Blackberry, but alas, it was an *actual* blackberry.


16 posted on 12/20/2014 5:16:25 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/ _____________________ Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: mkmensinger
The wireless technology known as "Bluetooth" was named for Harald. Wikipedia: The word "Bluetooth" is an anglicized version of the Scandinavian Blåtand/Blåtann, (Old Norse blátǫnn) the epithet of the tenth-century king Harald Bluetooth who united dissonant Danish tribes into a single kingdom and, according to legend, introduced Christianity as well.
22 posted on 12/21/2014 3:15:18 PM PST by Bigg Red (Congress, do your duty and repo his pen and his phone.)
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