On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 11:42:29 -0700 (PDT), David Silberstein <davids at Kithrup.COM> wrote: > More bits: > > http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue224/interview.html > I just read in the above link: Issola, more than many of the books-- Brust: Or Is Ole, as I call it. You know Ole? [Adopts Norwegian accent.] Dot Norvegian guy, Ole? Yah, I vus driving past Ole's house the udder day, he had a sign out front of his house, said "Boat for sale." And I stopped over dere and said, "Ole, vat's dot sign for? You don't got a boat, you chust got a combine and a John Deere." And he said, "Yah, und dey are boat for sale." You know, there are a lot of Swedes in Minnesota, where I lived up until recently. Norwegians always tell Swedish jokes, but the Swedes will not tell Norwegian jokes. They consider it rude. They tell Hittite jokes, because they figure no one can be offended by jokes about a culture that's been dead for thousands of years. I learned one of them. There's these two Hittites named Sven and Ole. ... You were saying? I'm wondering - has anybody read any stories where the Norse God's talked Sven and Ole/Fargo style? -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/