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I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

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It's simply wrong to always order [kids] to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his rights and damned well should be fighting.
- Erna Bombeck

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The world’s as ugly, ay, as sin,
And almost as delightful.
- Frederick Locker-Lampson

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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
- Abbie Hoffman

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Public opinion is no more than this: What people think that other people think.
- Alfred Austin

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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
- William Blake

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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
- Rudyard Kipling

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All wrong-doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
- Arnold Bennett

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The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.
- Tom Clancy

Who did it

I know I'm going out on a limb here, but this is clearly the guys whose picture several media have printed in a scrambled version. The name is known in the sphere of journalists. So here he is, the killer of an as yet unknown number of people through a bombing in downtown Oslo and a massacre at the Labor Party Youth summer camp ut Utøya.

May he be given a swift and fair trial, followed by a swift and fair hanging.

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
- Woody Allen

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There's nothing wrong with the younger generation that becoming taxpayers won't cure.
- Dan Bennett

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The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
- Elizabeth Taylor

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Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
- John Kenneth Galbraith

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
- Phyllis Diller

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Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason; if with reason, then they establish the principles that they are laboring to dethrone: but if they argue without reason (which, in order to be consistent with themselves they must do), they are out of reach of rational conviction, nor do they deserve a rational argument.
- Ethan Allen

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If all the world’s economists were laid end to end, we wouldn’t reach a conclusion.
- William Baumol

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How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
- Marcus Aurelius

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The moment you're born you're done for.
- Arnold Bennet

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It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins.
- Chinese Proverb

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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
- Mauritis Escher

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Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be!
- Miguel de Cervantes

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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
- Edmund Burke

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Give a man free hands, and you'll soon have them all over you.
- Mae West

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Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.
- Christian Nestell Bovee

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I don’t necessarily agree with everything I say.
- Marshall McLuhan

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If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
- Woody Allen

I made another doo doo!

My blog "Ask a Norwegian" is now available as an e-book at Amazon Kindle. (You can download a Kindle for PC for free at Amazon. Also, for Iphone, Ipads, Blackberry, Android.)

For Americans it costs $10, for others $13.80: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0059XPVIO

For UK citizens the price is converted from $ (I'm not from the UK so I can't actually SEE their price): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0059XPVIO

For assorted Eurotrash it costs less than 8 Euro, you can buy it from German Amazon: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0059XPVIO

Below is the product description, written by yours truly. If you're still not convinced, pop over to http://www.askanorwegian.blogspot.com and read some stuff for free... then go over to Amazon and make me rich!

Yours greedily,

Ghost


Product Description


Originally a blog, now in book form comes the legendary* tales of the cold lands of the north! All the questions about Norway and Norwegians you never knew you wanted answered!** This book will not only enlighten you about Norway, but also insult quite a few other nationalities, species and sexes in addition.

Why are Norwegians so restrained, and are they really rude? What should you eat in Norway or see in Oslo? What is the most common pet? And are Swedes actually human? The answer to these and many more questions are found in this book.

Excerpts:

"There's ample opportunity for bathing, though I've never tested the waters myself for fear of getting harpooned."

"The Danes are generally drunk out of their minds, the Swedes are incapable of feeling emotions and most Norwegians just don't care about you, because we know we're better than you are."

"...today's Bergensians: The bastard offspring of horny, drunken Krauts and Norwegian prostitutes."

"The most common animals are cats, dogs and Swedes ... for disciplining domesticated Swedes, I recommend a rolled up newspaper or a Colt .45, depending on the transgression."

"Because, no matter how hard we've partied, no matter how much we puked (and on whom), no matter how big of an ass we made of ourselves we can always take comfort in this: At least we're not Germans."

"Cabins should have no water or electricity, in fact as few modern conveniences as possible. This is to ensure that the first several hours of any visit will, by necessity, be spent chopping wood and/or pumping water manually into buckets or containers, or carried up steep slopes from the nearest lake or river - which may be a mile's walk or more."

"Ours is an unappetizing hodgepodge of something that looks like it has already been vomited and redigested at least twice, and from the looks of it, the chief ingredients are corn (maize), sour cream and rat."

"Norway is a Lutheran country and until a relatively short time ago, most Norwegians never had sex, we reproduced through cell division or Immaculate Conception."

"Norway, like Sweden has a long tradition for bestiality..."

"...men are from Earth and women from Venus, or some other planet where the weather is permanently foggy and so communication is always fraught with dangers."


* Almost unknown.
** Well, some of them.***
*** Only a few, really.

Quote of the Day

Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.
- G. K. Chesterton

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Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence. From the hour the Pilgrims landed, to the present day, events, occurrences and tendencies prove that to ensure peace, security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable.
- George Washington

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Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.
- John Adams

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An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
- Thomas Jefferson

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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
- John Kenneth Galbraith