Happy syttende mai Henrik Main!

[spaffe]

And happy independence an all that.

How are the celebrations going? A lot of anti-swedish agitation I hope

 

[Henrik Main]

Thanks a lot! I just returned from the May 17-parade, where all schools parade through the streets while singing along to the national hymns etc. The whole shebang started 10.30, and I only slept 4 hours tonight, so I was pretty damn sleepy after a whole night of russe-partying. The whole russ-thing is over later tonight, after the russ-parade (where the kids line up with water cannons and try to soak us with water).

Actually, there have been several Swedish bands playing in the parades today, as well as some Swedish pupils, so the brotherhood feeling is definitely alive

Here are some pics from the 17. mai parades (there are parades in every city in Norway):

 

[lizard]

 

[Henrik Main]

Awwww, lizzy! :'D

 

[lizard]

lutefisk and lefse for everyone!!!

 

[Henrik Main]

Haha. Lutefisk looks and smells so disgusting that I've never even tried it - cod drenched in lye Lefse, on the other hand, is teh winnar.

 

[lizard]

I had a coworker from North Dakota who was Norwegian descent...(lots of Norwegians up there)...she said the smell of preparing lutefisk can make you hurl.
but she brought us in some lefse...that was good stuff.

 

[NAD]

If/when I ever visit Norway, I shall eat lutefisk.

Happy... whatever this shindig is all about.

 

[lizard]

Norwegian independence from the overbearing, tyrannical Swedes.

 

[NAD]

 

[MFJ]

I miss that show

 

[NAD]

I never watch Conan, fucker is on too late even for me. Actually I'm usually up around that time, but unwinding preparing for sleep.*






*jerking off preparing for the nightly cry.

 

[Henrik Main]

Norwegian independence from the overbearing, tyrannical Swedes.

Haha, no, it's got nothing to do with that. It's the celebration of the day the Norwegian constitution was signed - the 17th of May, 1814. That's why we celebrate May 17 every year. However, May 17 2005 is a bit special, since it's 100 years since we gained our independence from Sweden.

 

[Hell Mike]

60 years since the nazis left Norway too? The sadness of that + losing us kinda negates all the joy of that consitution stuff, don't you think?

 

[Henrik Main]

60 years since the nazis left Norway too? The sadness of that + losing us kinda negates all the joy of that consitution stuff, don't you think?

But of course

 

[Mormagil]

I completely forgot today was your nasjonaldag... I wanted to celebrate

hopefully it's not too late to run down to the store and buy tiny Norwegian flags and aquavit