Posted on 02/06/2005 4:12:52 PM PST by franksolich
Bush most mentioned person in Norway
US President George W. Bush was the most mentioned in the Norwegian press, appearing 15,269 times. There is only one woman among the top 20.
According to an analysis made by the media survey company, Retriever Norway, based on 500 Norwegian news sources, the American president is the most mentioned person in the press in Norway, reported the Norwegian news bureau.
Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik is number two on the list, mentioned about 9,700 times. Bondevik is followed by the leader of the Conservative Party, Erna Solberg, the only woman in the top twenty names mentioned. Solberg was mentioned about 9,000 times.
The next woman on the list appearing, as number 21, is Minister of Culture and Church Affairs Valgerd Svarstad Haugland. There are only a total of 17 women on the list of the 100 most mentioned people in Norwegian media.
By the way, the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Washington, D.C. informs me that my favorite source of news about our gallant allies in the War against Terror, the "Aftenposten," is actually a morning newspaper, not an afternoon newspaper.....hmmmmm, by its name, it suggests something like the "Afternoon Post," but I know less Norwegian than I do Bulgarian, and so had assumed wrong.
"Ping" for the "Norway ping list."
I have to thank Fredo1070 for getting me in touch with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Washington, D.C., which has kindly agreed to keep me informed about news and people in Norway, the Nebraska of Europe.
Nice woman, "Inge," at the embassy there; she sounds unmarried; I think I shall pester her with more questions.
I also have to thank Eurotwit for that long list of kings of Norway; the local library here has gotten me biographies of four of them, so I can figure out what went wrong with Norway in between 1340 and 1905.
Yeah, sir, I get accused, often, of being a "flirt."
I've been very fortunate in associating with only the right women though, because out here on the plains of Nebraska, most men carry guns, and know how to use them.
But this "Inge" seems safe to me. You can best be kept informed, sir, of any progress in this direction, by hollering at me to be put on the "Norway ping list."
Whenever I said Minnesota Nice, don't believe me. Duluth folks lynched three men in 1920.
The first question out of my mouth, before being transferred to "Inge," was, "I'm sorry, I'm deaf, and I can't hear you--"
This was on the telephone.
Believe it or not, that HAS been one of my best "pick-up" lines; I have been using it since I was a teenager, and yeah, surprisingly it DOES work.
(I "hear" through "bone-conduction," which works, but is rather inefficient, and there are no mechanical devices that can help.)
The English as used by "Inge" was imperfect, but we got along okay, because while she did not understand my English, I did not understand her Norwegian, and so it was even all around, a level playing-field.
I know, I know, I know, it sounds incredible, but such things happen more often than one might imagine. And so this is why I have no "language barrier" even when in Angouleme or Tuscany or Sevastopol; it is no more difficult to communicate in such places, as it is right here in Nebraska, the Norway of America.
We had lynchings here in Nebraska, too, Madam, clear up until the 1910s. Usually they were cowboys hanging farmers, or farmers hanging cowboys--the famous "range wars" of the Great Plains.
<<has never been shot by a jealous husband or boyfriend, because knows types of women to avoid.
I looked that up, Madam.
Why were they hanged? Intruding on someone else's territory in the labor market, or something?
Didja ever talk to
INGA?
Yeah, I did, on Friday, because the "trick" to the whole deal is grabbing a hold of someone with a distinctive voice or accent, after which one can "jigsaw puzzle" the conversation halfway together.
I was transferred to a man at the embassy; nope, couldn't understand him (because men usually speak monotonally and without rhytem), and then to a woman who shouted and roared, but without distinctive patterns to her voice, and then finally to "Inge," whose voice ebbed and flowed, high points and low points, shrill and calm, musical and atonal, giving me "clues" as to what she was saying.
I must say the people at the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Washington, D.C., are among the most patient people I have ever encountered (they are not so patient here in Nebraska, most of the time); I had them running around like a bunch of chickens with their heads cut off, but they were always very kind and polite.
"Inge"--that might be a telephone name and not her real name--took the details, and promised to send me some "hard news" about Norway (via regular mail), and then Saturday morning when I checked my e-mail, there was a message from her, giving me "links" to some other Norwegian stuff.
"Inge" is 27 years old.
I tried to recruit her for Free Republic, and more specifically, for the "Norway ping list," but she insisted she is not "into" computers or the internet; she does it as part of her job, but in her personal life, she would just as soon deal with people face-to-face.
She did express an interest in meeting an authentic American cowboy, sometime.
"Inge" gets a AAA+++ rating for "customer service."
LOL!!!
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I still wonder about Inga, though.
Inga - ending with an "A".
Last I checked, sir, the "Norway ping list" has had two "1,000+ views," among those others rating 200-600 "views".
I am trying to "fine-tune" this thing, so as to elicit the greatest number of "views"--and hence the greatest publicity for Norway--but it still needs some tinkering, some adjusting.
No, they were were 3 black men and they were just traveling through with a circus at the time. Accused of raping a white gal.
They were not all guilty, though. Around here, it's told one did it but all three were hanged. Hard to know, though, if any of them were guilty.
There are pics at the link, but I sure didn't want to post them.
Here's a start page. http://collections.mnhs.org/duluthlynchings/html/lynchings.htm
They shot the hell out of the James-Younger gang in 1876 as well.
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