Norwegian Man Celebrates New Years Day

Der choppi-choppi of der iceie-iceie!

Let's Dance!

"Put on your Red shoes and dance the Blues"... David Bowie



Norwegian High School Girls Kickin-it!

Fish balls to Russia

The tradition-steeped cannery Vesteraalens believes they can find new markets for their Norwegian specialties and are pushing hard to give Russians a taste of their fish balls (fiskeboller).

"Fish balls are a typical Scandinavian product and unknown in Russia. But they are relatively cheap and in our view are well suited to Russian tastes," Vesteraalens sales chief Oddbj�rg Bollv�g told weekly newspaper Fiskeribladet.

Just before Christmas a sample shipment of 4,000 cans was sent to Murmansk and Moscow. Vesteraalens has already established a large and stable export market in Russia for another Norwegian staple, canned cod liver.

The ad campaign is now in production with the theme "Eat my Norwegian Balls, Ruskies"

Woman married without her knowledge

A 22-year-old woman in Oslo was shocked when she received her divorce papers in the mail as she was not aware that she had been registered as married to a Pakistani man for a year.
The woman�s wallet was stolen in Oslo three years ago. She claims the man used her ID to arrange a fake marriage. According to the divorce papers, they got married at Islamic Cultural Centre in Oslo in November of 2002. The 22-year-old woman said she thinks the man used a Norwegian woman as a stand-in at the actual wedding ceremony.

�I�m in shock,� the woman explained. �I have never married and I didn�t understand what was happening.�

Imam Maulana Mehboob-ur-Rehman in the congregation said that they are very careful that the people who get married have their papers in order and has no idea how this could have happened. He said he thinks the man has tricked both the woman and the congregation.
The 22-year-old is trying to get the marriage declared invalid. She has filed a formal complaint, but the police have dropped the case because they have not managed to locate the man in question. The woman and her lawyer have not managed that either. The man allegedly operates with several names in Norway.

Short Stuff

A Swiss pensioner lost his false teeth in a fight with a prostitute. The woman hit the man, aged 74, in the face and then kicked him. His teeth fell into a toilet and couldn't be recovered.

Thieves who stole a portable public toilet in Belarus - and loaded it on a trailer - unwittingly kidnapped a man who was sitting on it. The man was injured when he jumped off the moving trailer.

British defence force eyebrows have been raised with the news that of 1669 soldiers "medically downgraded" as a result of service in Iraq last year, 83 were women who were sent home pregnant.

British police are hunting for a man who stole a closed-circuit television camera from a Liverpool shop. To help them, they have an extreme close-up shot of the thief in action.

The US Senate has been told that the Pentagon has wasted $US100 million on airline tickets that were never used, and for which refunds were never sought, since 1997.

Young Norwegians can earn a merit badge in sex this summer. The pin, modeled on a popular summer swimming merit badge, is an offer from Swedish-Norwegian sex education group RFSU. The badge, which displays sperm cells swimming in waves, can be won by correctly answering 10 out of 13 questions about sex.

Thief ate everything

Norway - Salten county court sentenced the 24-year-old man from Bod� to six months immediate imprisonment for the food theft. In addition, the man was sentenced for seven other thefts, threats, shoplifting and a number of other offences.

The man entered the apartment by climbing up the fire escape and entered an unlock balcony door. He explained in court that he stayed in the apartment for several days and ate all the food he found in the fridge, the freezer and in the kitchen cupboards.

The owner said that when he returned home he found his apartment a mess and there were nothing left to eat.

The court�s judgment stated that the defendant appears to have difficulties concentrating, but the court did not doubt that the defendant was sound of mind.