Curmudgeon's Corner
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A Little Norwegian Humor...
Since half of me is Norwegian, I thought I could safely share this Norwegian humor with you:
One dark night outside a small town in Wisconsin, a fire started inside the local chemical plant. In a blink of an eye it exploded into massive flames.
The alarm went out to all the fire departments for miles around.
When the volunteer fire fighters appeared on the scene, the chemical company president rushed to the fire chief and said, "All our secret formulas are in the vault in the center of the plant. They must be saved. I will give $50,000 to the fire department that brings them out intact."
But the roaring flames held the firefighters off. More fire departments were called in as the situation became desperate. As the firemen arrived, the president shouted out the offer was now $100,000 to the fire department who could bring out the
company's secret files.
From a distance, a lone siren was heard as another fire truck came into sight. It was the nearby rural township volunteer Fire Company composed mainly of Norwegians over the age of 65.
To everyone's amazement, that little run-down fire engine roared right past all the newer sleek engines that were parked outside the plant. Without even slowing down it drove straight into the middle of the inferno.
Outside, the other firemen watched as the Norwegian old timers jumped off right in the middle of the fire and fought it back on all sides. It was a performance and effort never seen before.
Within a short time, the old timers had extinguished the fire and had saved the secret formulas. The grateful chemical company president announced that for such a superhuman feat he was upping the reward to $200,000, and walked over to personally thank each of the brave fire fighters.
The local TV news reporter rushed in to capture the event on film, and asked their chief, "What are you going to do with all that money?"
"Vell,” said Ole Larsen, the 70-year-old fire chief, ”Da first ting ve gonna do is fix da brakes on dat truck!"
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