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From: steinarb@idt.unit.no (Steinar Bang)
Subject: Re: Gourmand (Was: Greenland claiming residence of Santa Claus)
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway
	<1992Aug27.111217.20095@ugle.unit.no> <1992Aug27.121131.19573@jyu.fi>
Distribution: rec
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:26:06

>>>>> ryyti@jyu.fi (Jarmo Ryyti) writes:

> In article <1992Aug27.111217.20095@ugle.unit.no> jafitv@termo.unit.no (Jan Arne Fagertun) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug27.062336.14702@jyu.fi>, ryyti@jyu.fi (Jarmo Ryyti) writes:
>>> Svein - Ivar , do you know if whale meat is exported to Finland.
>>> I would like to eat one.
>>> Jarmo

>>Jarmo, you know that the whale is a large animal ?
>>If you "would like to eat one", I think you must be a gourmand.
>>(What about Guiness' book ... )

> Yes, Jan Arne, but like Svein - Ivar says it keeps a doctor away,
> especially if it is live...

Hah! Attack whales! A new concept... "Beware of Whale" instead of
"Bevar Kvalen" ("Save the Whale").

What whales are the best for home protection? Killer Whales (Orcas) or
Spermacet(sp?) Whales? I belive Dolphins are too kindly disposed
towards humans (yes, even towards doctors) to be any use as guard
whales. Might try crossing them with Dobermans using new DNA splicing
techniques...

Cheers!

- Steinar
From: d9bertil@dtek.chalmers.se (Bertil Jonell)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Tyr,Odin,Thor,Frey?
Keywords: weekdays
Date: 29 Aug 92 17:40:29 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology

In article <1992Aug29.040022.19177@u.washington.edu> mimir@milton.u.washington.edu (Al Billings) writes:
>In article <1992Aug28.200647.20136@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> johnson@sleipnir.mnesouth.corp.mot.com writes:
>>I read a theory that the Aesir and Vanir were originally from different
>>religions, and that the war between them which starts out the Eddas is an
>>allegory for the actual conflict between the religious systems. 

> They are considered to have come from the same people these days, not
>from some invaders comes and conquers scheme.

  How about the conflict when a standard celtic (Freya&Co have always seemed
to handle more celtic 'subjects' than the Aesir to me) religion was replaced
with the Aesir in Scandinavia (and bordering areas). Conflicts can (and do)
happen inside a culture, especially when some people are trying to push a 
new religion.

>Al Billings

-bertil-
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From: jafitv@termo.unit.no (Jan Arne Fagertun)
Subject: Gourmand (Was: Greenland claiming residence of Santa Claus)
Reply-To: jafitv@termo.unit.no (Jan Arne Fagertun)
Organization: SINTEF, Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 11:12:17 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.062336.14702@jyu.fi>, ryyti@jyu.fi (Jarmo Ryyti) writes:
|> Svein - Ivar , do you know if whale meat is exported to Finland.
|> I would like to eat one.
|> Jarmo
|> 
--


Jarmo, you know that the whale is a large animal ?
If you "would like to eat one", I think you must be a gourmand.
(What about Guiness' book ... )


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From: jittlov@gumby.cs.caltech.edu (Mike Jittlov)
Subject: Re: Unnecessary polluation
Keywords: Tho Most Polluating Event of Finland
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 09:11:54 GMT

>ryyti@jyu.fi (Jarmo Ryyti) writes:

>>The Most Polluting Event of Finland started yesterday in my home town.
>>It's called "The Rally of Thousand Lakes".  Adult men and women are
>>driving their cars around, polluting the forests and making a terrible
>>racket, for the past four days.  This is the most polluting and
>>unnecessary event in all Finland.  What about your country?

My country is California.  Los Angeles, to be exact.  We are not afraid
of our "pollution".  No - pollution is our _friend_.  It gives us a nice
big, fluffy ozone layer above our heads, that protects us from harmful
space radiation.  It blocks out all those confusing stars and planet
light-points, so we can concentrate on our driving.  It makes the moon
a comfortable brown-ochre - so appropriate for the Hollywood industry.
The air gives little children something to chew on.  Teenagers and
adults needn't waste their money on cigarettes - the city air gives
all of us a maximum daily dosage.  Here in Los Angeles, pollution is
our is our most important product!  8P  (smiley throwing up)

- mike jittlov  
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From: armagan@sassafras (Armagan Ozdinc)
Subject: Re: Santa Poll - informal (Re: Greenland claiming residence of Santa Claus)
Reply-To: armagan@prc.unisys.com
Organization: Paramax Systems
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:37:53 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.063829.695@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>, qvortrup@inf.ethz.ch (Michael Qvortrup) writes:
|> 
|> Where does Santa Claus live according to the tradition you were brought
|> up with?
|> 
|> Let's make an informal poll out of this: drop me an e-mail saying
|> whether you believe Santa Claus lives at/in
|> 
|> 	a) North Pole
|> 	b) Greenland
|> 	c) Finland
|> 	d) Some other place, please specify.
|> 	e) Unspecified
|> 
|> Given enough interest, I'll post a summary in about a week or so.

Santa Claus lived in Antalya, at the Mediterranean coast of Turkiye.
We actually should convince everyone that he belongs to Turkiye.

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From: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Emailing Ice Land
Date: 4 Sep 92 17:27:17 GMT

In <mad-celt.715620015@cwis> mad-celt@cwis.unomaha.edu (Andrew Patrick Booth) writes:


>I have some relatives that just got stationed in Ice Land and was wondering if 
						  ^^^^^^^^

BZZZZZTTTT!!!!   It is Iceland!  (we don't need to have the country refered
to as Ice Land :-)


>there was a way they could send/receive email from the U.S.  Is there some kind
>of email or internet service they can get access to?

Hmm.  I think it would be best for them to check at some information place
at Keflavik. 

Personally, I don't know about it.

-- 
einari@rhi.hi.is
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From: ryyti@jyu.fi (Jarmo Ryyti)
Subject: Re: Unnecessary polluation
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 11:44:56 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.101423.15315@nntp.hut.fi> f33012l@puukko.hut.fi (Janne Kivel{) writes:
>ryyti@jyu.fi (Jarmo Ryyti) writes:
>
>>The Most Polluating Event of Finland started  yesterday in my home town,
>>The Rally of Thousands Lakes. Adult men and some ladies are driving
>>cars around polluating forests and making terrible noise for four days.
>>This is the most  polluating unnecessary event of Finland.
>>What about your country? Which is in your country?
>
>Though I hate 'motorsports' and think of it as 'government-sponsored
>environmental terrorism', it's not fair to say that the pollution coming
>from the rally cars is somehow more evil than pollution coming from
>Jarmo Ryyti's car.
>
I drive 7 000 kms per year. A rally driver is training 
similar amount of kilometres for one single  rally,
 totally senseless pollution. Besides I have noise reduction in my car,I
use unleaded gasoline, what these new cars have not.
What is the peak of the stupidness as a side competition there were
arranged a tractor pulling contest, of whose incomes 10 Fim per
sold ticket was given for the cancer patients. The ticket costed
50 FIM.  So polluating first and then 10 Fim for the cancer patients. 
Very wise? Not for me.
Down with the Rally of Thousands of Polluated Lakes.

>I remember hearing that one transatlantic flight consumes more fuel than
>all the F1 cars during the entire season.
>
It is however not "sports"...like F 1 is said to be.
Jarmo Ryyti


>
>Janne Kivela"


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From: hvaisane@cs.joensuu.fi (H. Vaisanen)
Subject: Re: Moving to Finland
Organization: University of Joensuu
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 04:48:11 GMT

ksand@apple.com (Kent Sandvik) writes:
>In article <1992Aug21.114900.11878@cs.joensuu.fi>, hvaisane@cs.joensuu.fi
>(H. Vaisanen) wrote:
>>> If your application is turned down, no problem: Finnish law allows you
>> to ask for an asylum second time => you can live in Finland for
>> another 18 months and get welfare all the time. Then you can apply for
>> a third time...
>And don't forget the nice crowded corner of an isolated cell you will
>spend the next 3*18 months. Happy vacation!

I don't know how it is in other parts of Finland, but in Joensuu the
foreigners seeking political asylum (a.k.a. "refugees") live in
apartments given to them by the city government. But then, we have a
Social Democratic Mayor and a Social Democratic chief of police...
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From: sooz@iastate.edu (Susan F Bradley)
Subject: Re: Norway claiming NY (too late)
Keywords: Santa
Organization: Dept of English -- IOWA STATE UNIV
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 23:05:08 GMT

In <1992Aug31.120855.8942@ugle.unit.no> jafitv@termo.unit.no (Jan Arne Fagertun) writes:

[tom tedrick posting deleted merely to save space]

>Well, what I had in mind was you could have 1 Oslo for 1 New York.

>Or even better, we coul pay you 1 Oslo if you take back New York. If
>that isn't enough, we could add on Bergen.

>Just put Oslo wherever you want, they won't stop complainting
>anywhere...

>Find a rainy place for Bergen.


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How does this work for everybody: Norway will send Oslo, Bergen and some nice,
small village on a fjord over here and, in return we _won't_ send New York, Los
Angeles or Washington D.C. (After all, what has Norway ever done to us to 
deserve that?)  AND - if anybody over there wants it - we will send as much of 
Texas as their Nordic hearts desire.  

Susan Bradley
sooz@iastate.edu
From: sgrenander@NASAMAIL.JPL.NASA.GOV (Sven Grenander)
Subject: Registering a boat in Sweden ?
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:11:28 GMT

Ok, so maybe this is a hare-brained question, but I won't know unless I ask !

My better half and I are getting ready to buy a blue-water sailboat (to cruise
and live aboard). We have considered the possibility of Swedish registry so
that we can fly my Swedish flag rather than her US flag.

Could someone give me a ball-park estimate what kind of tax burden we may
set ourselves up for if we carry this through. What government offices should
we contact for more detailed information ? Any other regulatory issues which
we should consider ?


Thanks,

-Sven


P.S.  If you were wondering "why on Earth would you want to do that?" there are
three basic reasons. 1st, I'm a Swede and a flag on a boat is too important to
just fly the most convenient one. 2nd, while a cross may send people into a Jihad
in some areas of the world, the Stars and Stripes is likely to provoke that same
reaction in the much of the rest of the world. 3rd, the American Coast Gestapo
has a much too common habit of boarding and pointing guns at everyone on private US 
flagged ships inside as well as outside US territorial waters.
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From: oivindi@dhhalden.no (OIVIND IDSO)
Subject: Re: HELLO WORLD
Organization: Ostfold College
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:22:09 GMT

In article <2136.312.uupcb@thcave.no> bjorn.kvisli@thcave.no (Bjorn Kvisli)  writes:


>Is this message getting out to you?
>Please someone, respond.
>Thanks, Bjorn.
>---
>  MegaMail 2.10 #0:Internet: bjorn.kvisli@thcave.no
>                                                                                                                          

No, it didn't get to me; this means you'll have to do it all over again.

Oivind (oivindi@sofus.dhhalden.no)

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From: jafitv@termo.unit.no (Julenissen)
Subject: Re: There is no "Santa Claus"
Reply-To: jafitv@termo.unit.no (Julenissen)
Organization: SINTEF, Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 09:08:12 GMT

In article <urf.714940565@sw2001>, gtmt@storskogen.tl.se (Gammeltomten) writes:
|> 
|> It has greatly saddened me to see so many misguided persons
|> discussing the current residency of "Santa Claus". As everyone
|> knows, or should know, he is just a figment of imagination
|> (although I seem to recall there was a christian bishop of that
|> name somewhere, when I was younger).
|> 
|> This humanoid of gigantic proportions, who likes to dress up in
|> red and white, and who laughs insanely while giving away things
|> for nothing, was invented for purely commercial purposes. (The
|> X-mas holiday had already long been usurped by religionists.)
|> 
--


Of course there is no Santa Claus - but how do you translate a word
like "tomten", or in norwegian "nissen" to english ?

Of course, when I talk about Santa Claus I mean the pre-christian
figure "nissen" ("tomten" in Sweden), not that "humanoid of gigantic
proportions, ...", as you quite correctly expressed it. He's just a
ridiculous commercial figure.

Your description of the swedish "tomte" looks very familiar to me,
except that you didn't mention that some of us could seem really vicked
to the humans. But that's as a rule the humans own silly fault !


Julenissen
From: hberg@polisci.umn.edu (Bob Hammarberg)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Tyr,Odin,Thor,Frey?
Keywords: weekdays
Date: 27 Aug 92 20:43:01 GMT
Organization: Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota

In article <1992Aug26.001321.4506@mits.mdata.fi> karttu@mits.mdata.fi (Antti Karttunen) writes:


>BTW, In Mihail Bulgakov's great novel "Master i Margarita" (i = and)
>(Suomeksi "Saatana saapuu Moskovaan".) Satan is called 'Woland'.
>What language is this word coming from? (Some old germanic one, I guess.)

It' from Norse mythology: Woland the smith.  Can't remember what he made; 
magical swords and such, I suspect.  I think he appears in the Ring, too. 
(Wagner, that is, not Tolkien).
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From: mimir@milton.u.washington.edu (Al Billings)
Subject: Re: Tyr,Odin,Thor,Frey?
Organization: The Friends of Loki Society
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:11:18 GMT

In article <BJORN.B.LARSEN.92Aug26135131@engels.delab.sintef.no> bjorn.b.larsen@delab.sintef.no writes:
>
>That is an easy one. The answer is in the Bible, read the first book
>of the Old Testament. I never remember what it is called in English,
>but try "Genesis."

 Why? Everyone knows that the world began in Fire and Ice and will end in
Fire when the army of the slain marches.

Wassail,
Al Billings, Gothi

                           mimir@u.washington.edu
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From: edphk@taxus.uib.no (Hans Morten Kind)
Subject: Re: kokeilua
Organization: University of Bergen, Norway
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 11:54:51 GMT



Hva skal du koke i lua?
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From: u-lchoqu%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Lee Choquette)
Subject: Re: vegetarian dining in Helsinki?
Date: 25 Aug 92 15:01:29 MDT
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept

In article <1992Aug24.163542.25731@visix.com> kippi@visix.com (Kippi
Fagerlund) writes:
 > My husband and I will be in Helsinki on business for about four days in the 
 > beginning of October.  We are vegetarians - can anyone recommend any
 > restaurants or other places to eat? 

There are vegetarian restaurants, such as Greenway somewhere near Kajsaniemi
gatan, but you'll probably pay something like FIM 80 (USD 20) to eat at such
a place.  You'd be better off going down to Salutorget (Market Square) on the
harbor, where you'll find a lot of people selling fresh produce and fish, plus
it's got the kind of outdoor market atmosphere that you might enjoy.  If I'm
not mistaken, there's also a large hall nearby with the same stuff indoors.
  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
   . . . . Lee Choquette . . . . . . . . . . I *love* work . . . . . . . . .
  . . u-lchoqu@peruvian.utah.edu. . . . I could watch it all day. . . . . .
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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From: jafitv@termo.unit.no (Jan Arne Fagertun)
Subject: Re: Norway claiming NY (too late)
Keywords: Santa
Reply-To: jafitv@termo.unit.no (Jan Arne Fagertun)
Organization: SINTEF, Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 06:49:49 GMT

In article <sooz.715387903@vincent1.iastate.edu>, sooz@iastate.edu (Susan F Bradley) writes:
|> 
|> >You could at least send me one of the HUGE T-bone steaks from Texas
|> >that I've heard so much of. (-:
|> 
|> If it's beef you want - you want my own home state of Iowa. Tastiest, tenderest
|> beef around. (Except maybe Kobe steaks - but Iowa beef has the advantage of not
|> costing $50/pound)  This exchange would be more than acceptable to me. Let's
|> see if we can get it done before Lillehammer's Olympics so that I can go see 
|> the luge competition!
|> 
|> Susan Bradley
|> sooz@iastate.edu
|> 
--


Oh - is your beef even better than T-bone steak from Texas ?

Maybe I have to change my attitude against USA :-)


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From: jafitv@termo.unit.no (Jan Arne Fagertun)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Tyr,Odin,Thor,Frey?
Keywords: weekdays
Date: 26 Aug 92 08:55:50 GMT
Reply-To: jafitv@termo.unit.no (Jan Arne Fagertun)
Organization: SINTEF, Norwegian Institute of Technology

In article <1992Aug26.001209.28861@daimi.aau.dk>, jbuhl@daimi.aau.dk (Jesper Buhl) writes:
|> >>the Norse gods?  Tyr-tuesday, Odin-wednesday, Thor-thursday and 
|> >>Frey/Freya/Frigga-friday  which of these gods is friday named after?
|> 
|> >I am very uncertain here, but my guess would be Frey.
|> 
|> I am very certain, though, certain that it's Freya :)
|> 
|> >>Why is saturday still named after a Roman deity, Saturn?
|> 
|> >But it isn't in Swedish!  In Swedish, Saturday is "l|rdag" which comes
|> >from "l|gardag", which means "the day you wash yourself".
|> 
|> Do. in Denmark. For some reason or another, the norse word for
|> saturday wasn't adopted by the english. Maybe they only washed once
|> a year?
|> 
--


The norwegian word for saturday was "laugardag" in earlier times, which
means, as in Sweden and Denmark, "the day you wash yourself".

That should be a proof that the norsemen (Scandinavian vikings) were no
barbarians - on the contrary, they probably tried to bring civilization
to the European barbars down in France and England ! :-)


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From: deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Koerkoonlased
Reply-To: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 22:49:14 GMT

	Has anyone out there heard of Koerkoonlased?  The Funk and Wagnall's
Dictionary of Folklore describes them as a race of dog-men from Estonian
folklore, but I have been unable to find anything more about them.  I was
particularly wondering if there was a Finnish version of these creatures
(I suppose the word would be something like *koirakuonilaiset).  And while
we're at it, what do the Finns (or Estonians) call the helpful little nisse
(aka. brownie, bwcca, Kobold, Heinzelmaennchen, kaboutje, etc.)?
-- 
	Daniel "Da" von Brighoff (deb5@midway.uchicago.edu)  /\
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From: jafitv@termo.unit.no (Jan Arne Fagertun)
Subject: Re: There is no "Santa Claus"
Reply-To: jafitv@termo.unit.no (Jan Arne Fagertun)
Organization: SINTEF, Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 07:10:41 GMT

In article <ewillims.715267321@unix1.tcd.ie>, ewillims@unix1.tcd.ie (Emma Williams) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> >Of course there is no Santa Claus - but how do you translate a word
|> >like "tomten", or in norwegian "nissen" to english ?
|> 
|> 	How about "gnomes"?  That's usually an accepted translation.
|> They are small and bearded wearing high pointed hats in red or grey
|> with round red-cheeked faces and "lederhosen".  They help animals
|> who are injured and bring good luck to farmers who leave out milk
|> and food for them.
|>  
--


Maybe, but in Norway we use the word "nisse" both for Santa Claus and
the "gnomes".

In fact, we use the word "gnom" - I don't know if a "gnom" and a
"nisse" is the same - maybe it's just inherited from other languages
(english), to make us distinguish between our local "nisser" and
Santa ?


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From: pockling@fraser.sfu.ca (richard pocklington)
Subject: Tyr,Odin,Thor,Frey?
Keywords: weekdays
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 18:54:12 GMT

	Does anyone know how the days of the week got named after
the Norse gods?  Tyr-tuesday, Odin-wednesday, Thor-thursday and 
Frey/Freya/Frigga-friday  which of these gods is friday named after?
Why is saturday still named after a Roman deity, Saturn?

 Richard Pocklington   pockling@sfu.ca  

		THERE ARE NO RULES IN UTOPIA

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