Posted on 12/04/2002 8:54:06 AM PST by Jasonconley
Norwegian specialists in the field of environmental protection warn that there are drunk elks wandering around the woods of Norway in connection with the snowless weather. Many animals suffer from intoxication from eating over-fermented fruit. Apples that fall down from apple trees are then covered with a thick layer of snow and elks can not reach the fruit. However, this winter has had almost no snow in Norway, so elks simply eat tons of the fruit and enjoy its effects.
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The spelling...... ;-)
The spelling......;-)
Spelled Alg of course...
Indeed, especially when they clumsily drop a brick from above, or drunkenly slip and fall from high scaffolding.
In Swedish, at least, the a has two dots over it, ä, so it's pronounced more like our short e. And the g at the end is pronounced almost like our y. So älg is pronounced kind of like elly. Linguistically, the word is related to our elk.
A few months ago, I saw some of these critters on my cousin's farm in Sweden (not far from the Norwegian border).
Just so,as per the German umlaut, for which I don't know the HTML cheat-code offhand. In Dutch and Afrikaans they're called eland; in Finland it's hirvi, possibly derived from the Lapp word- my resident expert on such things, who I hope enjoyed at least one more out of season steak before passing on, advised me that poaching was still a popular pastime in the Karelean peninsula around Juuka and Nurmes, often with leftover WWII [Jatkisota] Moisin-Nagan military rifles not otherwise legal for the taking of moose due to their too-small 7,62x53r caliber.
I don't know the word in Norwegian, either, but it's probably more likely a Swedish or Germanic language derivitive than some of the other possibilities. My dad and grandma would have known, but sadly I didn't pick much of it up from them.
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LOL, but it's the drunken Optomist Club members that will really run over you.
. . . guess who?
Bet you didn't know he was a Shriner (I didn't either until I found that photo while looking for Ray Stevens's song. . . )
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