NealOnWheels Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 Ahhh Lutefisk... Going against my heritage I boycotted this long ago. What were my ancesters thinking. But I will never let go of my Lefse. Noble Peace Prize or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packsaddle Posted October 10, 2009 Author Share Posted October 10, 2009 Just to let you all know I haven't abandoned this thread (indeed I've been watching with horrified fascination), in the spirit of multiculturalism I offer the following: http://www.davethefox.com/words/0112lutefisk.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisabob Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 Gee, thanks there, Calico. I'm always so pleased to be called an ignorant worm and sworn at, on a scouting forum. By the way, don't blame the poor Norwegians. This Nobel prize is a Swedish thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NealOnWheels Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 Actually the Peace Prize is selected by 5 members selected by the Norwegian Parliment and is awarded in Oslo, Norway. The remaining Nobel Prizes are all based in Sweden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisabob Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 I stand corrected. Thanks, Neal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki101 Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 Calico, you seem kind of angry for some strange reason. Furthermore, you should be ashamed of yourself for writing the vulgar "STFU" in a post. Grow some class, Mate. Very rude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NealOnWheels Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 No problem Lisabob, I was under the impression that it was Swedish as well but researched it when I heard it was being awarded in Oslo. - A fellow ignorant worm (and proud of it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA_Scouter Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 Somehow I don't think Calico will win a Nobel Peace Prize. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWScouter Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 For your information the Nobel Prizes where established in the will of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite. They were first given out in 1901, at a time Norway and Sweden were in a joint kingdom. The year before my dad was born in Norway, 1905 the Norwegians broke away from Sweden and got their own King. The Swedish King was forced on them in 1814. We could learn a lot from Norway, the give a greater percentage of their GNP in foreign aid and charitable aid than we do. Their people have universal health care for around 100 years and many other benefits that we do not have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrentAllen Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 Yes, NWScouter, we could learn a lot from them - if you like socialism. Their whole economy and standard of living changed dramatically when they discovered and started producing oil. Don't take me wrong - I think Norway is a very nice country and does have a lot going for it. You won't find very many overweight Norwegians. They tend to live a very long time. They are very clean - you won't find any litter around. And they have a twisted sense of humor. These are the captions on t-shirts I picked up in Oslo from some street vendors: We kill whales for fun. Only 89,995 to go! (with cartoon of harpooned whale) A Map of Scandinavia Without Sweden (with the map showing just Norway and Finland) If we had dolphins, we'd kill them, too! (with a cartoon of a dolphin jumping out of the water, harpooned with the Norwegian flag on the end of the harpoon) Now that I think about it, maybe the Peace Prize was given with that same twisted sense of humor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisabob Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 ~ rolling my eyes again~ Yes I know, this is a tangent... but... I wish people would stop tossing around the word socialism every time some European country comes up. Read Marx. Read Lenin. Read Trotsky. Read Hegel. Read Mao. Read Stalin. Read Castro. Brent, whatever you mean by "socialism" is certainly not what ANY of them meant by it. At most, some European countries could be called "social democracies." Big, big, BIG, difference. All countries (US included) have some sort of social policy. That does not make them socialists. Bill Frist - former Republican Senate Majority Leader - has been doing a tour of the country with Howard Dean, talking about health care reform. One point Frist makes to his own die-hard ideological brethren, is that hot-button words like "socialism" do more to feed anxiety and irrational fear, than to contribute to honest debate. He has flat-out said, stop using the word socialism. (He also said people ought to stop the disingenuous hype about "death panels" too) I don't agree with Frist on a lot of policy matters, but I sure agree with him on that. OK - back to Obama and the Nobel committee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packsaddle Posted October 10, 2009 Author Share Posted October 10, 2009 Lisa, I can just imagine those eyes. I had a student once who rolled her eyes better than anyone I have ever seen before or since. Of course that meant I just provoked the response as often as possible. And she responded just the way I hoped every time. Ten years later she's married with children and we still correspond...and those eyes still roll just like always. As for 'socialism', I think you already know 'why' the term is being thrown around. OGE, maybe we need to modify Godwin's rule to include the invocation of 'socialism' as an automatic argument loser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GernBlansten Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 I just hope Obama gives the prize money to ACORN. Not because they deserve it, but for the pure entertainment value of watching FoxNews hyperventilate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoutldr Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 I thought it was Sweden, too, until I did my homework...don't want to be called an ignorant worm, ya know. Got called one anyway. I think Lisa was right...even Obama is saying, "Say, wha? Ya gotta be kiddin me." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kahuna Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 We could learn a lot from Norway, the give a greater percentage of their GNP in foreign aid and charitable aid than we do. Their people have universal health care for around 100 years and many other benefits that we do not have. Uh huh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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