GO ABBA GO!!!

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
And if I end up jinxing my relationship before the wedding, I'll send you a skull blanket.

dtb, this won't jinx the marriage, will it?

My wife knit me sweaters BEFORE the wedding, but she stopped before also, because I didn't wear them enough, or I wore store bought sometimes.

I'm not sure the break up of the "knitting for" part of the relationship makes this good news to you, plus if I had a good hand knit skull blanket I would never use store bought, so it probably wouldn't apply.

[Fugee]

Originally posted by barely_legal
Which pot do you have? If you have the sinucleanse one, I would recommend using about half of the recommended salt. I use 1/2 packet of the salt in a full pot of the water.

Ditto. I have that one and if I use the full packet, it's too strong for me.

[Fugee]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Apropos of nothing other than the fact that the commercial just came on, my high school drama teacher is the guy in the Citibank commercial who thought he was Norwegian when he's actually Swedish.

I wondered if they showed that one all over the country or just in heavy Scandihoovian places. It has an extra level of humor here for those of us Scandis who know of the historic (and continuing if you grew up in a community that was mostly one or the other) rivalry between Swedes & Norwegians. I think they got good news when they found out they were Swedes and not Norwegians!

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Sparklehorse
Who's supposed to get the bad luck? Because all of my good knives have been gifts, mostly recently even from a paramour.

Walking out of a restaurant on one anniversary, I found $68 on the sidewalk, and used it to buy a Wusthof 9-inch Japanese cook's knife, which has been awesome.

[tmdiva]

Originally posted by Fugee
I wondered if they showed that one all over the country or just in heavy Scandihoovian places. It has an extra level of humor here for those of us Scandis who know of the historic (and continuing if you grew up in a community that was mostly one or the other) rivalry between Swedes & Norwegians. I think they got good news when they found out they were Swedes and not Norwegians!

I DVR everything, so it's rare for me to see any commercial, but I did happen to see this one while watching something live the other day.

Of course you think it's better to be Swedish--you don't have any Norwegian. I have slightly more Swedish than Norwegian ancestry, but I think Norwegian is better--Swedes don't have the sweaters, or the fjords, or the Viking history, or the gjetost!

tm

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Walking out of a restaurant on one anniversary, I found $68 on the sidewalk, and used it to buy a Wusthof 9-inch Japanese cook's knife, which has been awesome.

Most of my knives are gifts from my parents, and our relationship has only improved since I started getting them. Coincidentally, it was when I left home, so . . . maybe we'd have some kind of perfect FANTABulous relationship if there'd been no knives.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Walking out of a restaurant on one anniversary, I found $68 on the sidewalk, and used it to buy a Wusthof 9-inch Japanese cook's knife, which has been awesome.

That is my very favorite knife. I default to it 97% of the time.

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by tmdiva
I DVR everything, so it's rare for me to see any commercial, but I did happen to see this one while watching something live the other day.

Of course you think it's better to be Swedish--you don't have any Norwegian. I have slightly more Swedish than Norwegian ancestry, but I think Norwegian is better--Swedes don't have the sweaters, or the fjords, or the Viking history, or the gjetost!

tm

Saabs and Volvos, baby. And who ever heard of Norwegian Erotica?

Where do the Danes fall in all this? My maternal grandfather was half Swede, half Dane. My mom's family still makes Norwegian jokes, but I've never really figured out the Danish part.

[Fugee]

Originally posted by tmdiva
Of course you think it's better to be Swedish--you don't have any Norwegian. I have slightly more Swedish than Norwegian ancestry, but I think Norwegian is better--Swedes don't have the sweaters, or the fjords, or the Viking history, or the gjetost!

tm

The Norskis need all that stuff to make up for the fact that they're not Swedish!!

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Walking out of a restaurant on one anniversary, I found $68 on the sidewalk, and used it to buy a 9-inch Japanese cook's knife, which has been awesome.

I'd think that 9-inch Japanese cook would use a terribly small knife.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by tmdiva
I DVR everything, so it's rare for me to see any commercial,

anyone in the "industry" know if this has started to impact on commercial prices yet?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
Saabs and Volvos, baby. And who ever heard of Norwegian Erotica?

Where do the Danes fall in all this? My maternal grandfather was half Swede, half Dane. My mom's family still makes Norwegian jokes, but I've never really figured out the Danish part.

how do you keep a dane in suspense all weekend?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
That is my very favorite knife. I default to it 97% of the time.

A big 2 to that. I tried to find a picture, but could only find one with dimples on the side. Mine predated the dimples.

[tmdiva]

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
Saabs and Volvos, baby. And who ever heard of Norwegian Erotica?

Where do the Danes fall in all this? My maternal grandfather was half Swede, half Dane. My mom's family still makes Norwegian jokes, but I've never really figured out the Danish part.

The Danes end up being the butt of jokes for both Swedes and Norwegians, especially really punny ones that capitalize on odd Danish pronunciations of cognate words. Norwegians think Danes talk like they have a mouthful of hot potatoes.

tm
(slightly less Danish than Norwegian)
(and, truth be told, more English than any of those)

[Sparklehorse]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
That is my very favorite knife. I default to it 97% of the time.

I got this Shun Ken Onion knife for Christmas last year and it is also awesome: