Read the bizarre Olympic Committee demands that led Oslo to pull out of the 2022 hosting race

It takes an impressive amount of corruption to out-graft Mayor Rahm. The guy’s a professional!

Slightly more rock’n’roll than sending postcards to your mother, I’ll give you that. :grin:

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And it so happens they sell that too, at the same price as the Coke.

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Heh heh. Concierge services provided by Amelia Bedelia.

fully stocked bar

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Not in the UK though.

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OT… I loved, LOVED those books as a kid…

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Aye, they are most endearing.
http://the-toast.net/2015/09/21/amelia-bedelias-first-day/

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On a related note, a local restaurant has a menu item called “stinky tofu.” A name like that just says “I triple-dog dare ya” and I know that, one day, I am going to order some.

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You should not go on my opinion.
There is the ‘but’…: take for example the ‘Ancient eggs’, they look terrifying, but the taste is really different from there looks. Although probably a taste you love or not, soft, creamy with a little ‘tang’.

And the Surströmming, smells like hell, but surprisingly mellow taste (comparable to the smell) and a heavy ‘tang’, but to people used to eating fish and especially ‘cured’ fish like Dutch haring , or the sour version, palatable.

The stinky tofu is just what it says and taste accordingly. But people eat it, so who am I? :wink:

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On the other end, I just today read the most humble drinks request ever: the lead vocalist would like one glass of a local red wine, preferably a claret, to help warm up their vocal cords before the show. The band requests no other alcohol of any kind.

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Isn’t lutefisk the fruit of the season? Put that in a cake.

Or perhaps they were savvy enough to figure out how to weasel out of the running without breaking whatever legalities had already been signed. :wink:

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