--- In [email protected], gullible fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > By now, TurquoiseB, you must have switched to making > cracks about Belgians. > > The lowdown on Conan and Finland: > > http://www.crikey.com.au/articles/2005/10/18-1422-3489.html > > --- TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], cardemaister > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > Conan O'Brien must have lived in (Sweden-)Finland > > in > > > some previous lifetime. Otherwise his "obsession" > > with > > > Finland is unconceivable! > > > (Finland was a part of Sweden for several hundred > > years > > > up to 1809.) > > > > And then what? The Swedes came to their senses > > and gave the land away to whoever would take it? > > :-) > > > > Just joking, really. I once had a wife of Swedish > > descent, and she filled me in on many of the > > in-jokes the Swedes have about their Scandinavian > > neighbors, and vice-versa. The only one I can > > remember is, "Twenty Swedes ran through the weeds, > > chased by one Norwegian." :-) > >
Some Norwegian friends, 10th Mountain Divison types, after drinking too much Aquavit, would make fun of Fins for being gloomy and drinking way too much vodka. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Dying to be thin? Anorexia. Narrated by Julianne Moore. http://us.click.yahoo.com/AQDrNC/sbOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
