Need some new decoration?

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:05:35 +0000

This wonderful living room decoration was sold on eBay a some time a go. The winning bid was only £ 2,159.00 (25 000 NOK). This humble installation may come handy at many occasions. Here are some of my suggestions:

1. Put it in your garden shed to prevent theft of your gardening tools.

2. Install it under the windows of your 16 years old daughter when she got a boyfriend making late night visits.

3. Put it in a crop field, make some crop circles, and take a picture of it. Get some UFO fanatic to authenticate your picture.

4. Install it in your mother in laws closet.

5. Secretly install it outside the window when one of our friends watching the Steven Spielberg movie Taken.

Anyhow; remember to put up a sign saying: “Beware of the alien”.

It will be very important to inform all your household members that you are adding this decoration to you living room. If an uninformed household member, or guest, is coming home late one night, the sight of this might cause a serious heart attack.

Norway: Things to be proud off (fun facts)

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:31:33 +0000

Here is a list of things that Norwegians should be proud of. Or maybe not?

During summer time on the west coast of Norway, you can have all four seasons in one day.

Norway is called the “Land of the Midnight Sun” because it lies so far north that in summer the sun stays out for 21 hours a day. In the winter, the sun stays out for 3 hours a day which effects pregnancy because the darkness makes the pregnancy go slower.

Norway has the largest population of arctic reindeer herders.

In the 1978 Eurovision song contest, Norway became the first country to not receive a single vote for their entry, ‘Mil Etter Mil’ (Mile after Mile) by Jan Teigen.

Norway entered the in 1980 Eurovision song contest with a song written about the construction of a hydro-electric power station.

Two years after World War II ended, the people of Oslo, sent a Christmas tree to the city of Westminster in appreciation of the British support during the war.

Gro Harlem Brundtland was the first female Prim Minister in Norway. She did stay in office for 10 years, from 1986 to 1996. Bruntland was a very dominant figure in Norwegian politics. Children growing up in that period came under the impression that only a women could be Prim Minister. Bruntland got her own holiday named after here, “Gro dagen” (The Gro day).

Prim Minister Bruntland is quoted a lot. A famous quote is “Its typical Norwegian to do it well” (Det er typisk norsk å være god). Another, less known, quote is: “Acupuncture must work, it’s very rare to see a sick hedgehog. (Akupunktur må ha noe for seg, det er jo veldig sjelden man ser syke pinnsvin.)

Norway has almost 22,000 km of coastline. That’s twice the length around the earth!

About 2/3 of the land in Norway is considered mountain terrain.

Norway has over 50,000 islands off its coast.

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Norway: Things to be proud off (fun facts)