Posted on 01/29/2005 5:05:36 PM PST by franksolich
That's what uniforced speed limits do. Back when 55 was the law, I frequently saw unsafe situations created because a community was used to flouting the law and someone was trying to obey it. I think it teaches disrepect for the law in general.
We always need to either enforce the limits or do away with them. But it should never be common practice for everyone to routinely go 20 miles/hr faster than the speed limit.
In fact, sir, when Norway became independent of Denmark, didn't Norway take a younger brother of the king of Denmark as their own king? Haakon VII, or something like that?
<<has a framed copy of the official state portrait of Margrethe II of Denmark hanging on the walls here, in between the official Canadian state portrait of Elizabeth II, and a rather warm, friendly, affectionate framed photograph of George and Barbara Bush.
<<has lots and lots walls in this house.
could it be because the Danes are the least introverted of the lot? :-)
And consternation at the Finns?
Why is that? Cell phone problems? :-)
The Danish and the Swedes don't get along, either. They have a long history of wars.
At least Norway fought. The resistance museum in Oslo is really something to see. I had no idea that Norway had it so bad during WW11.
Well, the Finns are not, strictly speaking, Scandinavians, being apparently more related to the Basques and somesuch.
I look at their postage stamps, their currency, their architecture, their art, their personalities, and they seem, well, so one-dimensional, and drab and austere at that. Just so drab, really dull and grey.
Compared with the Finns, regular Scandinavians sparkle.
As for the Danes, it is a "familiarity" thing; I am a native of Nebraska, which has an unusually-high proportion of Danes--my parents and most of the rest of my family were New Yorkers--and so I grew up with these sorts of people; they were a dominant part of the environment.
Yes, the Norwegians (and the Finns against the Reds) fought impressively against the odds in WWII. But Sweden accomodated.
All it takes for evil to succeed is for good people to do nothing...
That's true, the Finns aren't exactly the liveliest bunch I'v ever run into. There's a number of them that have settled around Lake Superior (Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota). When to move from one ice cube to another ice cube, you gotta wonder... :-)
That other forgotten war--between Finland and the Soviet Union in 1940--was something else, sir. A story of sheer heroism and courage, tiny Finland against the totalitarian giant hundreds and hundreds of times its size.
And Finland won that war (at least the first part of it, until the Germans forced them to concede to the Soviets, at the time allies of Germany).
This is why I remain adamantly optimistic about the future--yeah, sure, it does seem most of the world is against us in this War Against Terror, and that Christianity and European civilization, and American principles and ideals, are descending into an unutterable darkness of discouragement and defeat.....but yet I feel reasonable in hope.
When people have their backs up against the wall, they change. I have no doubt that when the chips are finally down, and it is clear what we are confronting, that the Euroweenies will, inevitably convert from wimpism to men.
No. Was there a similar name like mine there? I have been off AOL for about 8 years.
Yeah, sir, and the kid was a genius, from northern Ohio.
The America On-Line screen name he used was exactly yours.
This was in the America On-Line "college football chat room," which (as this Norway thread shows) deviated off topic (which was okay; I was a "host" there--got free America On-Line service in the deal; I believe in letting the water flow where it wishes to flow) onto some of the most esoteric and exotic subjects imaginable.
Try to imagine a Jesuitical (your counterpart on America On-Line attended a Catholic high school famous for its scholasticism) argument about Roger Bacon and the medieval concepts of astronomy.....in a "college football" "chat-room."
Like I said, the kid was a genius, and managed to keep even the rabid football fans engaged and involved.
Finnish is related to Lappish and Estonian and more distantly to Hungarian, in what is known as the Finno-Ugric family of langugages...there are some other languages in the group spoken by relatively small numbers of people in remote parts of Russia. As far as I know no one has yet successfully shown a relationship between Basque and any other language.
Okay, I stand corrected, sir; thank you.
I knew the Finns were related to the Hungarians in some manner, but at the same time got the impression somewhere they were also related to the Celts, Bretons, and Basques.
Jöses!
I read, someplace, sir, where in 1940 Norway had the second-or third-largest merchant marine in the world.
Since the British ships were being sunk all over the place, and could not be replaced quickly enough, Winston Churchill alleged that those Norwegian boats were pivotal for the survival of Britain, and ultimate liberation of Norway.
Norway was (is) a very tiny country, and it seems to me those millions of tons of aquatic vehicles represented a far greater sacrifice of their national wealth than happened in other countries during the second world war.
Norway was transferred from Denmark to Sweden in 1814 or 1815, and separated from Sweden in 1905. At that point Prince Charles of Denmark became King Haakon VII of Norway. He was the grandson of the reigning king of Denmark, Christian IX (1863-1906), son of the future King Frederick VIII of Denmark (1906-1912), and younger brother of King Christian X (king 1912-1947). His uncle William had become King George I of Greece (1863-1913).
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