Hello Sweden, you’re on fire

Date:November 28, 2003 / year-entry #144
Tags:non-computer
Orig Link:https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031128-00/?p=41683
Comments:    8
Summary:(Geek talk resumes on Monday.) The longstanding tradition of Norwegians telling Swedish jokes and vice versa, was recently refueled by a border story. A Norwegian man called Sweden on his mobile phone to tell them they had a forest fire. Not only did the firefighters not know about the blaze, they didn't recognize the name...

(Geek talk resumes on Monday.)

The longstanding tradition of Norwegians telling Swedish jokes and vice versa, was recently refueled by a border story. A Norwegian man called Sweden on his mobile phone to tell them they had a forest fire. Not only did the firefighters not know about the blaze, they didn't recognize the name of the place on fire.

Mitt bidrag att försämra diplomatiska förbindelser mellan Sverige och dess grannländer...

Comments (8)
  1. Andreas Magnusson says:
    November 28, 2003 at 1:58 pm

    Wow, your Swedish has definately improved a lot!
    It’s almost perfect, I don’t want to nitpick, but how else are you going to learn…:P In Swedish in this case, the word ‘to’ would be translated into the two words ‘för att’, since the meaning is ‘to cause something’. If there’s no cause, like in ‘I hate to run’ then there would only be ‘att’ (‘Jag hatar att springa’).

  2. Raymond Chen says:
    November 29, 2003 at 4:56 am

    Thanks for the tip and kind words. (I saved myself at the last second from erroneously using "sina" instead of "dess", but I didn’t know about "för att". Thanks.)

  3. JYoung says:
    November 29, 2003 at 8:47 am

    Is there a reason why you only publish one line, the title, in your RSS feed?

  4. Raymond Chen says:
    November 29, 2003 at 11:59 am

    I answered this in another comment: http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/raymondc/commentview.aspx/efd71c28-04a2-4dc7-add7-620f95131d94

  5. Mike Dunn says:
    November 29, 2003 at 3:07 pm

    Here’s another interesting story from that site:

    http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=446908
    Drunken moose alert in southern Norway

    "Martin Kolberg, head of the local animal committee in Telemark, warns people to beware of drunken moose."

  6. Andreas Magnusson says:
    November 30, 2003 at 10:35 am

    When I was a kid we actually had a drunken moose in our garden. They usually get drunk in late summer when they eat apples from the trees and the apples ferment in their bellies.

  7. MilesArcher says:
    December 1, 2003 at 12:40 pm

    Interesting. I wonder if the deer that eat my apples get drunk. (There are very few moose in California suburbia.)

  8. Amanda says:
    February 11, 2004 at 1:48 pm

    This is really retarted!!!!!!!!!

    Did you know that????

    Everyone wrote about the same thing. It’s also very stupid.

    I want you to know that you should never do this again!!!!!!

    Bye!!!!!!!!

    P.s. Never want to hear from you again.

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