Winter Temperatures and Norwegians:
Winter tempratures - and Noriwgians
+15°C This is as warm as it gets in Norway, so we'll start here. People in Spain wear winter-coats and gloves. The Norwegians are out in the sun, getting a tan.
+10°C The French are trying in vain to start their central heating. The Norwegians plant flowers in their gardens.
+5°C Italian cars won't start. The Norwegians are cruising in cabriolets.
0°C Distilled water freezes. The water in Oslo
Fjord gets a little thicker.
-5°C People in California almost freeze to death. The Norwegians have their final barbecue before winter. (its true - I and one friend of me, was indeed barbeque for the final time a year when it was - 5*C outside - it was cold - but the food was great
-10°C The Brits start heating their houses. The Norwegians start using long sleeves.
-15°C The Aussies flee from Mallorca. The Norwegians end their Midsummer celebrations. Autumn is here.
-20°C People in Greece die from the cold and disappear from the face of the earth. The Norwegians start drying their laundry indoors.
-30°C Paris start cracking from the cold. The Norwegians stand in line at the hotdog stands.
-50°C Polar bears start evacuating the North Pole. The Norwegian army postpones their winter survival training awaiting real winter weather.
-60°C Santa moves south. The Norwegian army goes out on winter survival training.
-183°C Microbes in food don't survive. The Norwegian cows complain that the farmers' hands are cold.
-273°C All atom and subatomic particles movement halts. The Norwegians start saying "Faen, its cold outside today."
-300°C Hell freezes over, Norway wins the Eurovision Song Contest
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hedgehog
Jup - we are still Vikings over here
Diclotican
that's what I get for posting in a hurry!
thank you for the correction!
instead of Norwegians. 
I spent the end of December in Helsinki a few years back -- I was prepared for the cold, but the lack of sunlight was a little unnerving. Short days. But really, not a big deal.
Scuba
My grandfather said that when I was bumping into things when I was little
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Diclotican
People still say Uff Da here. ninetheen century, when most of the Norweign "sod busters" (my family) immigrated to Minnesota and North Dakota. Unfortunatly, for the most part the Norweign language hasn't evolved though the subsequent generations - so we all sound like we're misunderstanding phases from the 1890's. Like I said, you can still hear people mutter "Uff Da" around here.
KamaAina
That is correct - we have a habit on making new languages now and then - specially in the 1800s, when we kind of was waking up from the long sleep we had been in since the 1380s, the "right" language was a issue of national pride - and not to say a source of conflicts between the people on the country-side and the people living in the City's
And it is correct as you say it - the dialects was very important in making a new language - Nynorsk or New Norwegian was based on dialects from parts of Norway - close to the language most people spoke at the time. Bokmål, the language of the books, if I have to translate it to a halting english, was used by most writers, and in school.. And is still the most used Norwegian written and spoken language in Norway.. Nynorsk and Bokmål is the two official Norwegian languages who also is learned in school.. In the north of Norway they have also sami, the language of the sami people, but in most of Norway, it is first and foremost Bokmål and Nynorsk who is used.. I use Bokmål when I write or read Norwegian by the way .. I can read nynorsk - but I do have some problems writing it...
Riksmål, is a rather conservative written language - most used by the old upper classes in Norway (the little what we had left after 500 year with a Union between Norway and Denmark - and then 91 year with Sweden).. It is for the most part older people who use Riksmål today - and it is little conservative in its writing... Of current politician's or people who still hold some un-official office of sorts n Norway, I believe Kåre Wiloch (a former prime minister) is the closest you can come to a man who still use Riksmål as his spoken and written language.. (he was also prime minister in a conservative government, even though I belive he would have been reconed as a liberal in todays United States of America...
My guess, is that the spoken language (and written language) by the emigrants to Minnesota and other parts where many Norwegian emigrated to, would have been more like a collection of bokmål and nynorsk, rather than riksmål.. As most of them would have been from the lower classes in Norway - small farmers or even from many who was not able to own property at their own at all.. It was a system called "husmen" where they had to work on a farmers land, for a house - maybe a plate of land - and some pigs and a cow or two... It was often a very hard and poor life - and many who had the means, or was lucky to get the ticket paid for them - emigrated from Norway to the new world... And many ended up building up farms in States like Minnesota and so one... For them it was like coming to paradise, the had land, and had the ability to do things with the farm land, that they never would have had the chance to do on their own back home.. Most of them got wealthy to - many got really rich compared to what they had been able to do in Norway.. An un-official sensus from 2008 says it was more than 9 million americans, of norwigian ancestory living in US - In Norwya it is little over 5 million in all... More than 800.000 norwigians emigrated from Norway to the US between 1840 and 1914. And then some emigrated after WW1 - in the years between the wars - and some emigrated after ww2 to...
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HarveyDarkey
Yeah - all that finish Vodka do that to you
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KamaAina
Norway have won it 3 times - First was with Bobysocks in 1985 - the next one was with Nocturne in 1995 and now last with Fairlytale in 2009.. She it out at youtube My favorite is Nocturne - even though the swedish complained about it - as they allways do when we win the contest.. Norway never do it when Sweden do it: (it is a intern thingy we have between Sweden and Norway..)
Eurovision Song Contest is the best known show no one really look at - but everyone got to know who won the contest... It is one of this wierd things we in Europe do - rather than shoot eatch other with weapons
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