Orm
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Joined: 5/3/2008 From: Sweden Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy Ah. I see. You can forgive my overlooking the obvious solution that you had, in fact, figured it out. You see, Ormster old chap, we don't hear so much about the good ole "Dry Swedish wit" or sense of humor. Come to think of it, I'd be hard pressed to characterize Swedish (or other Scandinavian) humor at all. Care to enlighten? I think this is mostly a language issue. Not all that many out in the big world can Swedish hence they do not understand Swedish humour. Swedes, on the other hand, do usually understand English hence we do enjoy the English humour and their dry wit. At the same time we are terrible with Italian language and therefore we do not get Italian humour. John Cleese, for example, is a major star in Sweden and I actually think he might be more popular here than in Britain. I wonder if anyone, even Gorns, understands Gornish humour?
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