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But why are you so fascinated with Norway?
. I looked at your profile and you don't have any Norwegian origins (or maybe I missed something).

I used to know a guy from Norway. It was about 17-18 years ago (or a bit more). He was of Polish origins, and he came to Poland with his parents to stay here for a year or something.

They rented a house located near the place where I live, so we were neighbours. Nice guy, but we lost contact after he went back to Norway. He lived somewhere near Halden

I met another one in Kosovo, where we both monitored election in 2001. He was a former Norwegian Army officer (serving in Kosovo too) but at that time when we met each other he was already a civilian, working for the Norwegian government.
Nice guy too, but a little bit to presumptuous. Maybe because he graduated from the Oxford university? He spoke English with very "British", Oxonian accent.

It is the "salesman," the promoter, the huckster, the snake-oil vendor, the public-relations manipulator, the advertising man, that exists within myself, sir.

If I had my choice, because I am more familiar with the subject, naturally I would have started with an Eastern European ping list, but our mutual good friend in Poland already had one, and I did not wish to invade his territory--especially since he can do a much better job with explaining Eastern Europe, than I can.

That Eastern European ping list is excellent; no one here in America could possibly do it any better.

When someone from Norway on January 28 complained that Free Republic is "anti-Norway," it was as if a Gift from God, sir, dropping on to my lap--I had a "cause," I had something to promote, to sell.

I have a very boring job, sir (I prepare income-tax returns), and because as you already know from my "profile" here on Free Republic, common ordinary everyday things such as social conversation, chatting on the telephone, listening to the radio or music, watching television or movies, are impossible for me, and so I have all these empty hours in life.

I never thought about Norway, I never lost any sleep over Norway, I never paid any attention to Norway, sir, until January 28--and now I think about Norway at least one hour a day, which fills up an empty hour.