Posted on 07/18/2009 10:41:47 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
Edited on 07/19/2009 2:42:58 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Bess writes: Surely Icelanders don't believe in Elves? It's a matter of earnest debate on the New York Mag where John Moody, who lives in Iceland responds to this Vanity Fair article on the country's financial meltdown. The debate centres on this VF claim that Alcoa, Iceland's largest aluminium company had to "defer to a government expert" in 2004 while scouring a potential site for a smelting plant to "certify that no elves were on or under it." The writer, Michael Lewis reports "It was a delicate corporate situation, an Alcoa spokesman told me, because they had to pay hard cash to declare the site elf-free but, as he put it,
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They know there’s lutefisk too, and look what that got them.
They wear clothes like that in ICELAND?
In Thingveller, I imagine. Live volcano.
Cheers!
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