Date: 11 Feb 2005 21:38:34 GMT From: Dave Hinz <DaveHinznospamcop.net> Subject: Re: C900 heater control
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? Dave Hinz