The Frog

A  Swede walked into a bar with a large frog growing out of his forehead. The bartender could not keep his eyes from it and in the end he had to ask: “where did that come from?”. The frog looked him straight into the eyes and answered: “It started with a pimple on my buttock”.

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This is the kind of jokes we Norwegians tell about Swedes and they about us. Any Swede reading this; Feel free to post your best Norwegian joke as a comment to this post – Ted

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Facts about Norwegians–Part 25

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Two out of three Norwegian told in a large survey on Norwegians’ sexual habits that they had more sex during their holiday than usual. Some even claimed that they had considerably more sex. Only 15 % on the other hand reduced their sexual activity when on holiday.

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Facts about Norwegians–Part 24

81 %  of travelling Norwegian use a digital camera to document their holiday while 6 % make do with their mobil camera.
Only 2 % writes a travelling diary. Now wonder, trying to read what they had scrawled down under heavy influence of alcohol in countries where these beverages are a lot cheaper than at home would be almost impossible anyway.

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Facts about Norwegians–Part 23

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E. Salvesen and John G. Dahll went on a trip to England in the late 1800s and got a chance to attend a football match for their first time. Getting home they started Christiania Football Club on the 23rd of May 1885. One year later the first football match on Norwegian soil took place as Christiania played a British naval team. Several thousand people turned up to see the new game.

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Facts about Norwegians–Part 22

German tourists find the Norwegian road signs warning about moose particularly interesting, more than 500 of these road signs disappear each year and rumours has it that they end up as table tops in Germany. Road signs warning about reindeer are also popular among souvenir hunters along with signs showing speed limits like 30, 50 and 70 kmph. These usually end up as birthday presents. Since I myself have received no less than 2 Norwegian and 2 Swedish road signs as birthday presents up through the years I guess German tourists are not the only ones with a taste for these particular items – Ted Illustration © TidiousTed

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Facts about Norwegians–Part 21

Chocolate was introduced in Norway in 1835, and it came to stay. People eat more chocolate in only in two other countries in the world. Each one of us eat about 8 kilo a year on an average. I do more than my share here, just so you know – Ted Illustration © TidiousTed

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Facts about Norwegians–Part 20

Solo is undoubtfully the most popular Norwegian made soft drink. It was introduced in 1934. Torleif Gulliksen, the creator of Solo had been travelling in Spain and had come across a refreshing orange soft drink there. He brought the recipe back to Norway and not long after that Solo had become Norway’s most popular bottled soft drink. Coca Cola did not pass Solo in popularity until well into the 1960s. Illustration © TidiousTed

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