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11 October 2004

Elks, Britcom and Alfred Nobel 

Poor chap Alfred Nobel may not have known what he was doing over a hundred years ago when he gave a lot of his money to a fund in his name, a fund meant to sponsor different people doing something good for mankind. He decided there was to be six prizes: Literature, Physics, Chemistry, Economy, Medicine and...uhmm...Peace. All of these were to be awarded by a Swedish committee - except for the latter, which honour was to be bestowed on little, peaceful Norway, that country that never seemed to happen upon trouble. Please bear in mind this was quite a few years prior to a couple of world wars and the creation of NATO. Ahem. So, anyway, earlier today a Norwegian professor named Finn E. Kydland and his American associate Edward C. Prescott (even I've heard of him) won the Nobel Prize in economics. Congrats! Of course, what I find funny about this, is that they keep saying Kydland studied at the Norwegian School of Economics, and not my boss' old school, which he claims is the most prestigious and the one that graduates the most successful businessmen (yes, never women, he is a male chauvinist) in this country. Yay!

Then I have to mention three British comedy shows that I have noticed only recently (sorry about that) that quickly became favourites of mine: Look Around You, Green Wing and, earlier today, Little Britain (which I didn't think was going to be that funny). Look Around You is absolutely amazing in that it looks and feels so much like an Open University programme of the seventies that if I didn't know any English (or at least not well enough to understand all the sarcasm) I would have thought I was watching an OU special. Well, apart from a few minor things, that is. Like, the talking brain. ;-)

Last, but not least: We're in the middle of the hunting season for elks, therefore there is (expensive, of course, this is Norway after all) elk meat to be found in the stores.

Never tasted elk.

Probably never will.

Current track: Little Mouse (from "Look Around You")

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Posted by: Ingaroo / 20:36
Comments:
Elkmeat taste great!!! :D (And I've eaten a lot of it..) You should try it if you get the chance.. :D
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 12 October, 2004 19:54
 
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