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Inspired by fluttering_by, a poll to see what people know:


[Poll #654858]

Comments

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that Norway was known for petroleum exports.

[legoline.livejournal.com]

Oh they've got loads of oil platforms in the North Sea.

[katyhh.livejournal.com]

You beat me to saying that :)

[legoline.livejournal.com]

Aaaaahaaahahaaaa! *rolls on floor laughing*

[dragonbane.livejournal.com]

1) The last two questions aren't going to get a very good representative sample, as the people likely to read the poll, have likely already read the answers here. :P

2) Everyone should know about Norway! They pee on it from Kenya!

"Lions and Tigers, only in Kenya! Here in Kenya we've got Lions... can ya believe it?"

[beige-alert.livejournal.com]

Um, that animation is, um, it's, um.... How did you find that? And were you just waiting for some reference to Norway to appear somewhere so you could slip in that link???

[dragonbane.livejournal.com]

Hey, I blame the badgers. They were instigating.

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"Should not have visted
That website which they said
Had this animated badger singing loud"
as filkertom put it.

[katyhh.livejournal.com]

Ummmmm ... to my knowledge, that sentence in Spanish should be "te quiero". Ti amo sounds very Italian to me ...
(Yeah I know - I am such a spoilsport ;-) But I really needed a language discussion in someone *else's* journal ;-) Hope you forgive me ...)

[beige-alert.livejournal.com]

"Ti amo" is Italian, "te amo" is Spanish. "Te quiero" also means I love you, but is...a somewhat 'weaker' expression, though apparently the difference in meaning can be debated endlessly. My Spanish may be better than my German, but that's not saying much....

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

I don't actually know Spanish, but when no less of an authority on everything worth knowing than Tom Lehrer says "te amo" is Spanish^*, I'm sure it is. As far as I'm concerned, it's Latin.

^*Special bonus music geek points for knowing what I'm referring to

[xap]

You're referring to his song "In Old Mexico" :)

FWIW, i love the line about angry pot roast *grin* for some reason i crack up every time i hear it :)

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

for some reason i crack up every time i hear it

Maybe because it's REALLY FUNNY? Naah, that couldn't be it... :-)

[lisande.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that the third question wasn't really a challenge for me (neither were the others, but especially the third... *g*)

[beige-alert.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't think so, no.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Now if the questions weren't in multiple choice format, I would have answered:
#1: A country in Scandanavia with Oslo in it.
#2: Uh, something in italian or spanish? (even though I took four terms of spanish at the University of Michigan, I never learned this)
#3: "I'm talking, dear" in German

Thank heaven for multiple choice!

[beige-alert.livejournal.com]

"I'm talking, dear." Now that's an interesting translation. There are times when that might be the better translation, I think.