Post by clarencebunsen on Feb 12, 2009 0:28:05 GMT -5
Rather than re-hijack the Ole Pederson thread where people are trying to be serious;
Clipper said:
"Hell Clarence, if you spent enough time in Duluth, you may have enough finlander and norwiegan jokes to last a lifetime. Around Utica it was always Polack jokes a few years back. In Duluth if ya did something silly, you were told that you were a finlander. Ethnic jokes abound, no matter what part of the country you visit. Same jokes, different nationalities in the punch lines. "
I once dated a finlander from New York Mills, the one in Minnesota not the one near Yorkville.
A ride across a frozen lake on her snowmobile followed by a cold "pop" from the cooler in her father's store. Does that constitute a date?
She was the only female in a physics lab class that I supervised. Last I knew she was a math professor at a university out west. How many ethnic and gender stereotypes does that contradict?
The thing about Norwegian jokes is that they tell them about themselves (or maybe about Swedes).
Would the following work if you substituted a Mexican and a Puerto Rican?
Reverend Ole was the pastor of the local Norwegian Lutheran Church, and Pastor Sven was the minister of the Swedish Covenant Church across the road. One day they were seen pounding a sign into the ground, that said:
"DA END ISS NEAR! TURN YERSELF AROUND NOW BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE"
As a car sped past them, the driver leaned out his window and yelled, "Leave us alone, you religious nuts!"
From the curve they heard screeching tires and a big splash... Rev. Ole turns to Pastor Sven and asks, "Do ya tink maybe da sign should yust say 'Bridge Out'?
Clipper said:
"Hell Clarence, if you spent enough time in Duluth, you may have enough finlander and norwiegan jokes to last a lifetime. Around Utica it was always Polack jokes a few years back. In Duluth if ya did something silly, you were told that you were a finlander. Ethnic jokes abound, no matter what part of the country you visit. Same jokes, different nationalities in the punch lines. "
I once dated a finlander from New York Mills, the one in Minnesota not the one near Yorkville.
A ride across a frozen lake on her snowmobile followed by a cold "pop" from the cooler in her father's store. Does that constitute a date?
She was the only female in a physics lab class that I supervised. Last I knew she was a math professor at a university out west. How many ethnic and gender stereotypes does that contradict?
The thing about Norwegian jokes is that they tell them about themselves (or maybe about Swedes).
Would the following work if you substituted a Mexican and a Puerto Rican?
Reverend Ole was the pastor of the local Norwegian Lutheran Church, and Pastor Sven was the minister of the Swedish Covenant Church across the road. One day they were seen pounding a sign into the ground, that said:
"DA END ISS NEAR! TURN YERSELF AROUND NOW BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE"
As a car sped past them, the driver leaned out his window and yelled, "Leave us alone, you religious nuts!"
From the curve they heard screeching tires and a big splash... Rev. Ole turns to Pastor Sven and asks, "Do ya tink maybe da sign should yust say 'Bridge Out'?
We grew up with all kinds of ethnic jokes and there were some for every nationality and damn we thought they were all funny. 
