Nothing is the correct answer for those of you at home keeping score. Harrison Scott Key notes the Swedish Nobel Prize doesn’t prefer American literature and offers a response: Invade.
Nothing is the correct answer for those of you at home keeping score. Harrison Scott Key notes the Swedish Nobel Prize doesn’t prefer American literature and offers a response: Invade.
That’s a bit … severe, don’t you think?
Severe? What are they doing with their land? Nothing worth while. 🙂
You’re not Swedish, are you Loren?
I agree. It does seem a bit severe to force our military to live with the freezing cold and long winter nights of Sweden. Sand storms are bad enough – do we really need them to handle ice storms as well?
It seems very fashionable in Europe to think of the US as a bunch of uncultured louts. Let them. We’ll just take whatever is useful in their culture and ignore the rest, like we’ve always done.
I read recently that Swedish women were judged (by whom I don’t know) the most beautiful in the world. I’d always thought that honor went to Iceland, but Iceland didn’t even make the list I saw.
So I say, invade Sweden and take their women.
To us, “invade X and take their women” sounds like a joke, but imagine if China were to do that. Because of their “one child per family, preferably a boy” policy, they have a large surplus of men who can’t get married.
What better solution than to send them off to some mineral rich country the US couldn’t care less about? If they die, they’re not going to make problems at home. If they conquer, they can marry local women.
I think you’re right, Lars. Off the top of my head, I can think only of Swedish women when I try to think of gorgeous babes in the public eye. Fabulous women like Agata, Astrid, Birgit, Gotilda, Ragnhild, and Tora. I mean, like, wow.
(For clarity, I am completely joking, and if any of these names are those of immoral women in certain *ahem* media, then I don’t know anything about them.)
No, no, not Swedish. A little English, a little Irish, a little Cherokee. It’s just that I could think of quite a few other places I’d rather invade first.
Ingrid Bergman. Inger Stevens (some of you probably remember her). Greta Garbo. Just off the top of my head.
Oh, yes, and Ann-Margret.
Well, Ingrid Bergman only makes the case for me.
It’s sad that Inger Stevens is so much forgotten now, but it’s her own fault, as she committed suicide sometime in the early 70s. She starred in the TV series “The Farmer’s Daughter” with William Windom in the 60s, and can still be seen now and then in the movies “Hang ‘Em High” and “Five Card Stud.” Also the odd episode of “Twilight Zone” and “Alfred Hitchcock.”
Ummm . . . you can’t steal women who are already dead.
Bela Lugosi did.