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RE: War in the Pacific is the Swedish Primenisters Favorite Strategy Game (He sayed in interwiev any
Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 10:36 pm
by JWE
OMG Dave!!! [&o][&o][&o][&o][&o] game, set, and match!!
RE: War in the Pacific is the Swedish Primenisters Favorite Strategy Game (He sayed in interwiev any
Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 10:40 pm
by Terminus
Ahhh, many happy afternoons as a child spent watching the Muppet Show... Good times...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAsYwW7p ... re=related
RE: War in the Pacific is the Swedish Primenisters Favorite Strategy Game (He sayed in interwiev any
Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 10:45 pm
by DaveB
Actaully my oldest son moved to Sweden recently,
and in an email to him I added a few lines to help him settle into his new home ' 'Hurdy gurdy snurrfen poppen dunken' etc. In reply he said the people he was staying with had seen the email and had thought I must be a simple minded bigot -to which he had explained I wasn't a bigot <g>
RE: War in the Pacific is the Swedish Primenisters Favorite Strategy Game (He sayed in interwiev any
Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 10:52 pm
by Mike Solli
ORIGINAL: Terminus
He's most likely a space alien, working for the Babylonian Brotherhood...[:D][:D][:D]
That would be Mynok then.
RE: War in the Pacific is the Swedish Primenisters Favorite Strategy Game (He sayed in interwiev any
Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 12:06 am
by chuckwalla
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RE: War in the Pacific is the Swedish Primenisters Favorite Strategy Game (He sayed in interwiev any
Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 12:21 am
by Canoerebel
I haven't seen any bashing of Sweden in here - just good natured joking in general. I've never met anybody that had a negative opinion of Sweden. If you took a poll of Americans, Sweden would undoubtedly get very, very high ratings.
It's true, however, that Budweiser once had the great "man commercial" of all time - featuring the Swedish Bikini Team.
RE: War in the Pacific is the Swedish Primenisters Favorite Strategy Game (He sayed in interwiev any
Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 12:33 am
by chuckwalla
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RE: War in the Pacific is the Swedish Primenisters Favorite Strategy Game (He sayed in interwiev any
Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 12:50 am
by Fishbed
ORIGINAL: checkwalla
Since this thread has degenerated into some gratuitous bashing of Swedes I want to bring a little perspective. I am a research scientist that has collaborated with Swedish researchers for years and they are both extremely talented and very generous with their data. Their governmental level of organization, infrastructure and efficiency really puts ours (US) to shame by any international standard you look at and the data they provide us could never be collected by our government. If you do what you do well and efficiently, then you don't have to do it 24/7 or live the sort of unbalanced lives we tend to live here in the U.S.
ORIGINAL: chuckwalla
Yes, bashing was probably too strong a term. I love the US, but I think we could learn a lot about efficient government and infrastucture from places like Sweden. I also wanted to suck up to my Swedish colleagues so they continue to send us wonderful data.
Sure thing, but I even fail to find anything like criticism in this topic, don't know who you're answering to in here [&:]
Especially making that a US-Sweden controversy while among the contributors you may find most notoriously 2 Brits, 1 Scot, 1 Dane, 1 Croat, 1 German, 1 Austrian and 1 French, not to mention those who were too shy to say where they're from, in addition to the original Swedish poster of course [:D] [;)]
RE: War in the Pacific is the Swedish Primenisters Favorite Strategy Game (He sayed in interwiev any
Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 1:02 am
by dennishe
Let me be the first to make fun of the Swedish. As fan of the muppet show I absolutely love the Swedish Chef. Here are a few links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbuRA_D3KU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAsYwW7pt7o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9oyr_MKABY
Sure thing, but I even fail to find anything like criticism in this topic, don't know who you're answering to in here [&:]
Especially making that a US-Sweden controversy while among the contributors you may find most notoriously 2 Brits, 1 Scot, 1 Dane, 1 Croat, 1 German, 1 Austrian and 1 French, not to mention those who were too shy to say where they're from, in addition to the original Swedish poster of course [:D] [;)]
And since I'm not shy: I'm from Holland and currently live in Boston
RE: War in the Pacific is the Swedish Primenisters Favorite Strategy Game (He sayed in interwiev any
Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 1:17 am
by chuckwalla
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RE: War in the Pacific is the Swedish Primenisters Favorite Strategy Game (He sayed in interwiev any
Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 1:26 am
by Naskra
A Swede, the Pope, and a Giraffe walk into a bar .... and someone is offended.
RE: War in the Pacific is the Swedish Primenisters Favorite Strategy Game (He sayed in interwiev any
Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 1:27 am
by Mike Scholl
Bassically, as a small and rather homogenious nation bordered by the fearsome threats of Norway and Finland (half of who's citizens aren't swarming to get into Sweden); I would guess that the Prime Ministership doesn't have to be a 24/7 job. So if he wants to indulge in our hobby in his spare time, good for all of us.
However, I'd just as soon not deal with their tax rates. [:D]
RE: War in the Pacific is the Swedish Primenisters Favorite Strategy Game (He sayed in interwiev any
Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 1:38 am
by hgilmer
That's pretty cool. It just goes to show you, anyone can be anyone. Maybe I could become prime minister of the US someday? [&:]
RE: War in the Pacific is the Swedish Primenisters Favorite Strategy Game (He sayed in interwiev any
Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 2:52 am
by chuckwalla
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RE: War in the Pacific is the Swedish Primenisters Favorite Strategy Game (He sayed in interwiev any
Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 3:01 am
by XENXEN
I belive that this is a Documentary about Sweden and WW2 made by someone from finland [:)]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6FEzGJjgrs
RE: War in the Pacific is the Swedish Primenisters Favorite Strategy Game (He sayed in interwiev any
Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 3:10 am
by bradfordkay
I think that it's absolutely wonderful that the Swedish PM is a WITP addict. First of all, it shows that he's smarter than the average politician and secondly it shows that he has good taste.
Sir, whoever you are, thanks for representing our small community so well in the public eye...[&o]
RE: War in the Pacific is the Swedish Primenisters Favorite Strategy Game (He sayed in interwiev any
Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 3:11 am
by chuckwalla
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RE: War in the Pacific is the Swedish Primenisters Favorite Strategy Game (He sayed in interwiev any
Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 3:13 am
by bradfordkay
c'mon chuck, I was trying to get the thread back on topic and now you've gone and reinjected OT politics into it...[:'(]
RE: War in the Pacific is the Swedish Primenisters Favorite Strategy Game (He sayed in interwiev any
Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 3:13 am
by Gem35
Swedish Chef, now that takes me back a long time to my childhood years and the muppet show.
Every Saturday night @ 6:30 pm I was in front of the TV.[:D]
RE: War in the Pacific is the Swedish Primenisters Favorite Strategy Game (He sayed in interwiev any
Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 3:18 am
by chuckwalla
Bradfordkey,
Thanks for trying to take this thread back to where it belongs. I will cease and desist.