APRIL 2022 | SCANDINAVIAN MONTHLY
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Humor How to Annoy a Scandinavian Text Tor Kjolberg
If you happen to deal with Scandinavians from time to time, you will know how sensitive they are when being compared to their neighboring countries. If you do want to annoy them, here are some hints. If you want to be polite, just read on. Claim that Denmark, Norway and Sweden are all the same The three countries are Scandinavia all right, but they are three individual countries, with their own language and individual inhabitants. Scandinavian joke: Ole and Lars were business partners and good friends. One day Lars started off for work and discovered he’d forgotten his tools. Returning home, he looked around for his wife, Lena, and finally found her in the bedroom. To his surprise, she was on the bed with no clothes on. “Vat in the vorld are you doing vidout any clothes, voman?” Lars asked. “Vell, I yust don’t have any clothes to vear, dat’s why,” answered Lena. “Vat you talking about,” said Lars as he opened the closet door and began counting: “Vun dress, two dress, tree dress, four dress… Oh, hello Ole… Five dress… Forget to remove your shoes before entering a home Scandinavians don’t like dirt being dragged all over their homes, or heels on their wooden floors. It’s polite to
remove your shoes in the hallway. Scandinavia joke: An elderly Norwegian named Lars
decided to March to the alter at the ripe old age of 85 with a shapely miss who was only 35. His friends cautioned him about the health hazard involved,
