RN> I spoke with a woman from Finland once, some years ago, but I think she
 RN> had been in this country so long that I couldn't detect an accent.

If they have spent som time there they must learn it but there are many Finns
here that have been her for over 20 years and still not speek good Swedish.

 BF>> Ohhhh, a cold Tuborg Julebrygd, That's the beer they make at Christmas
 BF>> (Jul).

 RN> I pass.  (-:

I brought some Tuborg Gold from Denmark now and it is almost like Christamas
for me.
I also brought my favorite whiskey, Dahlwinnie, from Germany. That costs here
about $65 but I got it for half price so it's Christmas x2 now.
Does a good whiskey cost $65 in USA?

 BF>> I'm not quite sure what's right. I think it would be the best if we did
 BF>> join but we don't need the Irish 300% increase.

 RN> Well, your country will have to do what is best for it.

No. They do what is best for them.

 BF>> We call them parrots since they are coulorful and loud.

 RN> Since I haven't heard them, nor have I had to put up with them, I haven't
 RN> had the opportunity to pick out a name for them yet.

I heard some in Denmark now, in The Old Town in Aarhus, but they whern't
that coulorful but they was heard.
The houses in this town are from, at least 1850 and older, and it was very nice
to see how they lived at that time.

 BF>> In Germany they say: Die Dumme Schwede.

 RN> "The stupid Swedes?"

Yes. Since they can do almost everything here withtout beeing caught.
And we call them "The stupid Germans". They come here in there caravans and
mobile-homes and having everything with them and kill our moose and catch all
the fish they can and then go back to Germany vithout having payed for anything
or spent a coin here and this they can't do in Germany so they say we are stupid
to let all of this happend for free. But since we don't do like this we don't expect
anyone else to do it either but the Germans do it and they are the only ones to
do it.

 BF>> I can say: "2 Mythos please" in Greece and Mythos is
the Greek beer.

 RN> I thought it was a myth.  (-:

No, it isn't. It's for real.

 BF>> But can USA and China work together after what happend?

 RN> I think so.  The only thing we all have to do is keep trying.  To give up
 RN> is unacceptable.

I would have given up years ago.

 BF>> Unfortunatly you can never tighten all gaps and if somone /really/ want
 BF>> to get insid USA, well, then he will succed and then it's always somone
 BF>> who will help him find the weapons, for money, that he need for his task.

 RN> Yes, but it's getting more difficult for them all the time.

We can hope so.

 BF>> We have here in Europe groups that are pro:s in demonstrate. Their job is
 BF>> to travel around in Europe and fight the police wherever there is a
 BF>> EU-meating and they are very well equiped and dangerous and the police
 BF>> don't laugh at them and what this groups will/can do in the future no one
 BF>> knows and they are a powerful factor to count with.

 RN> We had something along those lines during our last election for President.

Ther is a EU meeting in Greece right now and I heard a figure that it is 30 000
police there and between 50 000 and 100 00 demonstrators.

 RN> As far as I know, there is no origin for it, but my instinct tells me it's
 RN> Irish; a people who could have conquered the world, but they were too
 RN> drunk to know it.  (-:

No. It comes from a family that had for job to traveled around in Scotland to
starting fights and there name was O'Hooligan.

 BF>> See, you don't know it all.  :-)

 RN> Now tell me something I don't know.  (-:

I just did.

 BF>> It was that night between 9 - 10 nov. 1938 the jew-hate exploded in
 BF>> Germany on order by propagandaminister Goebbels and all jewish shops and
 BF>> synagogues were closed and many jews were start taken to concentration
 BF>> camps.

 RN> I recall that.

Good.

 BF>> My wifes fathers sister are married to a German and he remember what
 BF>> happend during this time but he never wants to talk about it.

 RN> I don't blame them.

He has told us some and it wasn't nice.

 BF>> That's the best way to keep a friendship but sometime it's nice to have a
 BF>> conversation about religion to. Someway it concern us all.

 RN> It is the adult way.  Although there are times when religion creeps into
 RN> our conversation, one does not try to get the other to convert to their
 RN> belief.

That's nice when one doesn't have to have a gun on the table.

//Bj”rn

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