Recent Comments

1. 10 days ago on B.C.

   Why would this have anything to do with election results? Five of the parties in the Riksdag use botanical symbols, but people don’t vote for them because they really like roses or clover.

2. 11 days ago on Non Sequitur

   I am so happy I live where tax filing is online and takes 10 minutes, tops, only because I own a farm and sold some stocks. Otherwise it would take less than a minute.

3. 11 days ago on B.C.

   It’s the flower symbol of the Green party in Sweden.

4. 19 days ago on Skippy

   No matter where you live the sun does not rise in the same spot all the time.

5. 21 days ago on Broom Hilda

   Stalactites are on the ceiling, stalagmites are on the ground.

6. 24 days ago on Prickly City

   And the chickens have started laying eggs again.

7. 26 days ago on Grand Avenue

   I have an old ‘Nordiskt Konversations lexicon’ from the 20’s, a ‘handbook in common knowledge’, that I am wandering through. I only have volume 2 but it should last me awhile.

8. 27 days ago on Grand Avenue

   I recommend reading an encyclopedia or coffee table type book every night before bed. The older the better. Like counting sheep.

9. 27 days ago on The Argyle Sweater

   I speak swedish which is one reason I thought the cartoon more stupid than funny. I cannot explain the fj sound but I can pronounce it. A swedish J is usually pronounced as the english y consonant. Learning to consistently pronounce a j in english can cause trouble for swedes, my wife always called yeast ‘jeast’ because that sound has to be converted when speaking english. Don’t get me started on the various sj, sk, skj, stj, and k before (i e y ä ö) spellings which I pronounce ‘sh’ but for which swedes use a sound you have to hear in the womb to reproduce :-)

10. 28 days ago on The Argyle Sweater

    Bjästa hjärnan djur pjoska sjäppa ljuga are actual words using the letter j with other consonants. Interesting that fjord changes to fjärd in Blekinge and stays fjärd around the Baltic. Also, none of these combinations are pronounced as dipthongs, so not feeyord as blunebottle would have it, just fjord.