A.Spencer3

Lennart Petersen <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
    > > The name of the railway station not far from Trondheim is "HELL",
    > beside the station there's a building marked "GODS-EXPEDITION". That translates as
    > "freight-expedition" .

Lekker (nearest to Norwegian I can get)! :-))

Surreyman

Arwel Parry

In message <[email protected]>, Lennart Petersen
<[email protected]> writes
    >"a.spencer3" <[email protected]> skrev i meddelandet news:[email protected]
    >tli.net    ...
    >> Lennart Petersen <[email protected]> wrote in message [url="news:_KM4-[/q2]
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    >> >
    >> > > Beside the "HELL" station there's a "GODS-EXPEDITION" as well so there
    >> are
    >> > alternatives.
    >> There's a what?! Seriously, I assumed 'Hell' meant something else in Norwegian.
    >> Are you telling me there's a town called God's Expedition? Or have I fallen foul
    >> of a joke too subtle for me!
    >The name of the railway station not far from Trondheim is "HELL", beside the
    >station there's a building marked "GODS-EXPEDITION". That translates as
    >"freight-expedition" .

And when the station building in Hell caught fire back in the 80's, one of the
British railway magazines came up with the headline "Hell Burns Down".

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Arwel Parry
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newstartnz

And let's not forget Orkney is home to the delightful township of Twatt. Where some of the trolls around here obviously come from?

Scottish Quilter

    >>Hell is Scottish food and weather,

You can eat *very* well in Scotland--------------what happened to you? Elma in
Glasgow, Scotland, UK (Remove spex to reply by email)

Anonymous

In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Arwel
Parry) wrote:


    > And when the station building in Hell caught fire back in the 80's, one of the
    > British railway magazines came up with the headline "Hell Burns Down".

Presumably, being so far north, it also freezes over sometimes?

Keith Anderson

On Fri, 09 Aug 2002 09:28:33 +0200, Mika <[email protected]> wrote:

    >Keith Anderson schrieb:
    >> On 6 Aug 2002 09:14:14 -0700, [email protected] (Cynthia) wrote:
    >> >Hear ye, hear ye! New heaven and hell interpretation!
    >> >
    >> >Heaven is Italian food and weather, Swiss punctuality, French wine and perfume,
    >> >English police and military , German scholarship. As an American protectorate.
    >> >
    >> >Hell is Scottish food and weather, Italian punctuality and police, German
    >> >military, English wine. As an Islamic fundamentalist protectorate.
    >> >
    >> Hmmmmm - a choice between Islamic fundamentalism and free market fundamentalism -
    >> don't think I want to live anywhere which is either fundamentalist or a
    >> protectorate.
    >The old West Germany wasn't such a bad place to live, really.

Agreed - lived there for a while and it was terrific, as was (in my opinion and
experience) the pre-Thatcher UK

Mika

Keith Anderson <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:<[email protected]>. ..
    > On Fri, 09 Aug 2002 09:28:33 +0200, Mika <[email protected]> wrote:
    > >Keith Anderson schrieb:
    > >>
    > >> Hmmmmm - a choice between Islamic fundamentalism and free market fundamentalism
    > >> - don't think I want to live anywhere which is either fundamentalist or a
    > >> protectorate.
    > >
    > >The old West Germany wasn't such a bad place to live, really.
    > Agreed - lived there for a while and it was terrific, as was (in my opinion and
    > experience) the pre-Thatcher UK
    > >

Personally, I never really considered pre-WWoG UK a protectorate, though.

M, Munich

Keith Anderson

On 9 Aug 2002 15:50:45 -0700, [email protected] (Mika) wrote:

    >Keith Anderson <[email protected]> wrote in message
    >news:<[email protected]> ...
    >> On Fri, 09 Aug 2002 09:28:33 +0200, Mika <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> >Keith Anderson schrieb:
    >> >>
    >> >> Hmmmmm - a choice between Islamic fundamentalism and free market fundamentalism
    >> >> - don't think I want to live anywhere which is either fundamentalist or a
    >> >> protectorate.
    >> >
    >> >The old West Germany wasn't such a bad place to live, really.
    >> Agreed - lived there for a while and it was terrific, as was (in my opinion and
    >> experience) the pre-Thatcher UK
    >> >
    >Personally, I never really considered pre-WWoG UK a protectorate, though.
Pre-WWoG? Duuhhhhh - my brain isn't in gear today - what's pre-WWoG UK?

Arwel Parry

In message <[email protected]>, Keith Anderson
<[email protected]> writes
    >On 9 Aug 2002 15:50:45 -0700, [email protected] (Mika) wrote:
    >>Keith Anderson <[email protected]> wrote in message
    >>news:<[email protected] >...
    >>> On Fri, 09 Aug 2002 09:28:33 +0200, Mika <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>> >Keith Anderson schrieb:
    >>> >>
    >>> >> Hmmmmm - a choice between Islamic fundamentalism and free market
    >>> >> fundamentalism - don't think I want to live anywhere which is either
    >>> >> fundamentalist or a protectorate.
    >>> >
    >>> >The old West Germany wasn't such a bad place to live, really.
    >>> Agreed - lived there for a while and it was terrific, as was (in my opinion and
    >>> experience) the pre-Thatcher UK
    >>> >
    >>Personally, I never really considered pre-WWoG UK a protectorate, though.
    >Pre-WWoG? Duuhhhhh - my brain isn't in gear today - what's pre-WWoG UK?

"Wicked Witch of Grantham" perhaps?

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Arwel Parry
http://www.cartref.demon.co.uk/

Keith Anderson

On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 12:34:14 +0100, Arwel Parry <[email protected]> wrote:

[......]
    >>>> >The old West Germany wasn't such a bad place to live, really.
    >>>> Agreed - lived there for a while and it was terrific, as was (in my opinion and
    >>>> experience) the pre-Thatcher UK
    >>>> >
    >>>Personally, I never really considered pre-WWoG UK a protectorate, though.
    >>Pre-WWoG? Duuhhhhh - my brain isn't in gear today - what's pre-WWoG UK?
    >"Wicked Witch of Grantham" perhaps?

Hehehehe!!