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Bad News from our Friends in Norway.
multiple ^ | 10 Apr 2002 | multiple

Posted on 04/10/2002 12:39:22 PM PDT by white trash redneck

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To: Norvokov
Do I have products? What the hell does that mean? Do you have a brain?

Settle down there sonny. Since you were yapping about not boycotting Norwegian products I take it you are either a Norwegian or have some interest in how we spend our money. Tell me what products Norway has or is that request not clear enough for you as well?

21 posted on 04/10/2002 1:15:10 PM PDT by Lent
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To: Lent
Do you have "products"?

They make nice sweaters, but they are too expensive for my blood.

I have Helly Hansen sailing gear, I buy Jarlsberg cheese for sandwiches (its similar to but better than swiss), and they make Linje Aquavit.

22 posted on 04/10/2002 1:18:36 PM PDT by Rodney King
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To: Norvokov; lent
vhat vill vee do visout dos little dried fishes?
23 posted on 04/10/2002 1:19:12 PM PDT by jonatron
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To: Norvokov
It would be very difficult for me to boycott Norwegian products, even if I wanted to. No offence, but I can't think of a single indentifiable brand of anything from Norway that I could boycott. :)

I'm sure you guys export something-or-other here, but darned if I have a clue what it is...

24 posted on 04/10/2002 1:20:58 PM PDT by hellinahandcart
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To: Pragmatist
incredibly good looking women from norway, iceland, and denmark, but evidently, thats all norway is good for. but those women!!!!
25 posted on 04/10/2002 1:22:01 PM PDT by nocommies
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To: Map Kernow
Yumping Yiminy, vee don't like deese Yoos!"
That sounded more Swedish to me.
26 posted on 04/10/2002 1:23:06 PM PDT by Utopia
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To: Lent
Damned Neutrogena. Use it all day, and my hands are still dry.
27 posted on 04/10/2002 1:23:22 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Lent
Tell me what products Norway has or is that request not clear enough for you as well?

There's a brand of canned reindeer meatballs in cream sauce out of Norway that I love (no, I'm not joking). I can't remember the brand name but I do remember it had a logo of a "Laughing Lapp," presumably the guy who herded the reindeer that were turned into the canned meatballs.

That clearly insensitive use of a stereotype of a Norwegian national minority, coupled with the sky-high saturated fat and cholesterol content, made me doubtful I would ever buy any again, as delicious as they were.

And now this!

28 posted on 04/10/2002 1:24:18 PM PDT by Map Kernow
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To: hellinahandcart
It would be very difficult for me to boycott Norwegian products, even if I wanted to. No offence, but I can't think of a single indentifiable brand of anything from Norway that I could boycott. :)

I'm sure you guys export something-or-other here, but darned if I have a clue what it is...

Oil is their biggest export. They export more oil than any country but Saudi Arabia. Most of it comes from the North Sea. I guess most of it winds up in Europe, but some must make it over the ocean. Norwegians are also big in shipping. There are only about 5 million people there, so they're not a huge economic power.

31 posted on 04/10/2002 1:25:45 PM PDT by Koblenz
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To: white trash redneck
People are going bonkers and irrational over this whole thing. Kicking a man out who did nothing wrong.
32 posted on 04/10/2002 1:26:47 PM PDT by lavaroise
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To: Koblenz
Oil is their biggest export. They export more oil than any country but Saudi Arabia. Most of it comes from the North Sea. I guess most of it winds up in Europe, but some must make it over the ocean. Norwegians are also big in shipping. There are only about 5 million people there, so they're not a huge economic power.

Big fishing fleet, too. Plus they're pretty good at hothouse agriculture, given their short growing season. Don't know how much fish or veggies are for export, though.

33 posted on 04/10/2002 1:28:29 PM PDT by Map Kernow
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To: Map Kernow
canned reindeer meatballs

Hehehe.

34 posted on 04/10/2002 1:30:26 PM PDT by Lent
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To: Norvokov
The Norwegians are probably the most conservative right wing people on the whole continent.

Please explain your statement. Norway has high taxes, and a government directed economy. Hardly conservative.

If you mean that Norwegians are racist redneck white people, please explain that. For others reading incorrect stuff on this thread, the Nobel prize comes from Sweden, not Norway. The flags of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Finland ALL feature a cross.

35 posted on 04/10/2002 1:30:38 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: Map Kernow
If you ever run across the Laughing Lapp again please freepmail me with a name and source.
36 posted on 04/10/2002 1:30:49 PM PDT by gnarledmaw
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To: Bobisalwaysright
It is unfair to condemn all of the Norwegians for something that one set of people said. How would we like if the rest of the world judged America on what the liberals said,eh?

Who is condemning all of the Norwegian ones? Just the anti-Semitic ones who seem to run the Nobel Peace Prize committee and their parliament.

And I think most of us on this forum condemn America's liberals.

37 posted on 04/10/2002 1:31:42 PM PDT by white trash redneck
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To: nocommies
..but those women!!!!

You got that right. But this outrage demands an American response.

So I promise to personally spank every Norwegein Au Pair I can get my hands on.

Obviously when they returned from their pillaging expeditions, the Vikings made sure there was only enough room on their ships for the great looking ones.
38 posted on 04/10/2002 1:31:54 PM PDT by wheezer
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To: gnarledmaw
If you ever run across the Laughing Lapp again please freepmail me with a name and source.

Absolutely! Last time I bought one was at least five years ago at a Norwegian specialty shop on the corner of 9th and Pacific in San Pedro, the port of Los Angeles. Together with those other seafaring and fishing folks, the Italians and the Croatians, the Norwegians---believe it or not---used to be a major ethnic community there in San Pedro.

Alas! I went there just two or three weeks ago with my son while he was visiting on spring break---and the little store was...GONE! I'm going to keep looking though---any Freeper Norwegians living in the Southern California area please let me and gnarledmaw know of any Scandinavian food places in our area.

40 posted on 04/10/2002 1:39:07 PM PDT by Map Kernow
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