Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 21:48:20 GMT From: th <someguynospamwhere.se> Subject: Re: C900 heater control
Dave Hinz wrote: > On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 21:30:31 GMT, th <someguynospamwhere.se> wrote: > >>Dave Hinz wrote: > > > >>>Norway stayed out, right? Or, is that just currency? >>>I can see their point, personally, either way... some grudges >>>are just too early to give up on. >> >>Sweden and Norway were in a union from 1814 to 1905, before that Norway >>belonged to Denmark for several hundred years. This was one of the >>exceptions where a union has ended peacefully although it was very close >>to war. > > > And then the languages started to diverge. I can read Danish > and older Norwegian almost interchangably, Swedish and modern > Norwegian not as well. > > >>As the Norweigians have had their own country for quite a short >>time I guess they still want to be independent, at least until they >>learn to manufacture cars and until they run out of oil and salmon. > > > I've go some friends in Ringebu (Oppland) who give me a hard > time about collecting "Swedish traktors". I corrected them, > mentioned that that would be Volvo, and asked when there was > going to be a Norwegian car for me to buy instead. > > But hey, he collects Buicks, so no accounting for taste. > (Hei Brede!) - we shipped a 1966 Buick Wildcat over there a > few years ago. I tried to talk him into something at least > _attractive_, but... > > >>They >>had some electric car design presented a few years ago but it never >>became a commercial success. > > > Do you have a name I could google for on that? > Have a look at http://www.kewet.com/ -- th
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