[franksolich]

This hot off the wires, just posted on the most excellent newspaper in Norway, the now-famous Aftenposten.

I hope the moderators don't mind me posting two stories about Norway in four hours--I'm not sure about the rules.

[Fierce Allegiance]

I'm glad you did post it, because I've been dying to post this:

A This is a 2004 filer of Norwegian Kjell Petter Bruun practicing Tree-Ski-Jumping somewhere in southern Norway. The unofficial Norwegian Tree-Ski-Jumping Championships are, hopefully, being organized for the second time in the Hallingskarvet wilderness area, some 200 kilometers (125 miles) west of Oslo, Saturday, March 5, 2005.The jumpers will be aiming for the trees and the higher they land in the trees, the better their scores may be. The idea is to take flight from a mound of snow, fly through the air and land in a tree. To qualify as a completed jump, the skier has to hang onto the tree without falling to the ground. (AP Photo/SCANPIX)

[garyhope]

2 stories about Norway in 4 hours? Uh oh, you're in trouble now.

I didn't know George Bush was Norwegian.

[franksolich]

Ping for the Norway ping list; sorry about two pings so close together, but this story, which just showed up, is too good to miss.

So.....cowboys in Norway.

Of course, my public offer, made here, still stands--if a reporter on Aftenposten writes a story about bison in Norway, then I will send him some of the finest beef in the world-- Nebraska beef--and an armload of flowers to the incomparable Nina Berglund and a hand-shake to the unparalleled Jonathan Tisdall, for translating that story.

[Disambiguator]

re: skiing hooligans

To rephrase an old joke, "I went to a riot, and a skiing competition broke out."

[expatpat]

"'Cow-boys' has a different meaning in Norway", said a spokesman for the Norwegian Association for the Legaliization of Animal Husbandry.

[LtKerst]

Germans accuse skiing hooligans

Bayern police say that a large cow made of synthetic material on display in connection with the skiing world championships in Oberstdorf has been stolen, and "Norwegian cowboys" are suspected.

You know,....I'm having a harder time lately telling the Germans from the French.

[CarryaBigStick]

Cowboys in Norway eh? My opinion of a little part of Europe (a very little part) just went up. Though, I don't cotton to cattle rustlers.

[PoorMuttly]

...that would be Cattle Rustlers.

BAD cowboys.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I think there is sufficient evidence to conclude that the World will end when Norway gets the bomb.

[Billthedrill]

"Cowboys? Now lissen up Pilgrim, an' lissen tight. Them wuzn't cowboys, them wuz rustlers!"

"Yeah? Mighty bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!"

"Waal fill yer hand, you - "

Sorry. Too many John Wayne movies...