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15 windowdelux
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 11:24 am    Post subject: Fire truck story Reply with quote

> One dark night outside a small town in Minnesota, a fire started inside
> the local chemical plant and in a blink of an eye it exploded into
> massive flames.
>
> The alarm went out to all the fire departments for miles around. When
> the volunteer fire fighters appeared on the scene, the Chemical company
> president rushed to the fire chief and said, "All of our secret
> formulas are in the vault in the center of the plant. They must be
> saved. I will give $50,000 to the fire department that brings them out
> intact."
>
> But the roaring flames held the firefighters off.
>
> Soon more fire departments had to be called in as the situation became
> desperate. As more firemen arrived, the president shouted out that the
> offer was now $100,000 to the fire department who could bring out the
> company's secret files. Still no takers.
>
> From the distance, a lone siren was heard as another fire truck came
> into sight. It was the nearby rural township volunteer fire company
> composed mainly of Norwegians over the age of 65. They had fled Europe
> after WW2, and formed their own town.
>
> To everyone's amazement, the little run-down VW Doublecab fire engine
> operated by these old Norwegians passed all the newer sleek engines
> parked outside the plant... and drove straight into the middle of the
> inferno.
>
> Outside, the other firemen watched as the Norwegian old timers jumped
> off and began to fight the fire with a performance and effort never
> seen before.
>
> Within a short time, the Norse old timers had extinguished the fire and
> saved the secret formulas. The grateful chemical company president
> joyfully announced that for such a superhuman feat he was upping the
> reward to $200,000 and walked over to personally thank each of the
> brave, though elderly, Norse firefighters.
>
> The local TV news reporters rushed in after capturing the event on film
> asking, "What are you going to do with all that money?"
>
> "Vell," said Olee Larsen, the 70-year-old fire chief, "da furst ting
> veedoo is fix da brakes on dat damn truck!"
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 12:16 pm    Post subject: Re: Fire truck story Reply with quote

15 windowdelux wrote:
president rushed to the fire chief and said, "All of our secret
formulas are in the vault in the center of the plant. They must be
saved. I will give $50,000 to the fire department that brings them out intact."


aren't most vaults fire proof?
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 12:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

LOL Imagine that--it's set in Minnesota.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 5:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I too live in Minnesota.I don't know anyone who talks like that.Funny though.Too many people saw the movie Fargo and think that's the way we all sound.My GF is 100 percent Norwegian and doesn't talk that way.But she takes pills for it.You Betcha!! JT
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 5:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Darn single chamber master cylinders!!! Hopefully they can upgrade now.
Ya, sure...
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 6:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I too live in Minnesota.I don't know anyone who talks like that.Funny though.Too many people saw the movie Fargo and think that's the way we all sound.My GF is 100 percent Norwegian and doesn't talk that way.But she takes pills for it.You Betcha!! JT


You've never been to Bemidji? Everyone talks like that there.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 8:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I thought everyone from Lake Wobegon spoke like that......
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 10:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

oh ho! that's rich!
i'm gonna have to send that to my grandfather, being the norwegian that he is.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 7:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can betch your booties I don't talk funny. No sireee bob. So how bout that weather there, ya?

When we took a trip to Colorado about a month ago, my friend and I were talking "Minnesooootan" on a hike. People that were walking past us just gave us funny looks. Good times. Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 5:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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You've never been to Bemidji? Everyone talks like that there.



Been there but never noticed.Too many tourists! Lake Woebegon too. Funny stuff. Yah sure!! I am mostly Swiss and German so I am an outcast. The GF says I can't be a member of the family unless I eat lutefisk.There is no way I can get close enough to do it.That stuff is toxic waste!!! You betcha! JT
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 5:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

JT wrote:
coad wrote:


You've never been to Bemidji? Everyone talks like that there.



Been there but never noticed.Too many tourists! Lake Woebegon too. Funny stuff. Yah sure!! I am mostly Swiss and German so I am an outcast. The GF says I can't be a member of the family unless I eat lutefisk.There is no way I can get close enough to do it.That stuff is toxic waste!!! You betcha! JT


It's always seemed to me like there was this boundary line in Minnesota-- draw a line from Detroit Lakes across to Brainerd and anywhere North of that is another world.

Hillbillies with funny accents up there. They all live in ratty old mobile homes, drive giant Chevy pickups with gun racks, and watch NASCAR like their Southern kinfolk, but they have all these odd quirks like ice fishing, snow mobiles, and chainsaw art carvings.

Just this odd little pocket of weirdness. Like some indian tribe that was moved onto a reservation far away from their native hunting grounds and has adapted to their new environment.

Oh, and they all make giant statues of paul bunyon, paul's girlfriend, babe the blue ox, and giant muskies out of concrete which is another very strange local practice I've never understood.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 1:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

We get bored here in the long winters.Have to do something to keep our minds and hands busy.LOL JT Laughing
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