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  1. Timothy M.
    Yeah, but there are no pictures from the penguin story on the English main page.
  2. Timothy M.
    Now that we're talking about penguins, this was the funny story in Denmark today, and also made international news. https://nyheder.ku.dk/alle_nyheder/2020/05/forskere-blev-plimmelim-pingviner-ved-antarktis-udleder-ekstreme-maengder-lattergas/ IFL Science | Antarctic Researchers Get The Giggles As Penguin Poop Produces Laughing Gas You can see cool pictures at the top of the front page of the University of Copenhagen, but it's only in Danish there. https://www.ku.dk/
  3. Timothy M.
    I really loved those stories and it made me long for a nice hot sauna.
  4. Timothy M.
    Contribution from Denmark. Originally sung by Bamses Venner, but I like the Stig Rossen version. The main point of the text is he's sitting in a small boat rocking on the water and singing about the little things which give value to life. Such as the scents around him, spring, grilling a fish, and having a beer on a string cooling in the water.
  5. Timothy M.
    The number to look out for will be 44444.
  6. Timothy M.
    LOL, I edited my post to make varme hveder in italics, that may help to show it's in Danish.
  7. Timothy M.
    Yeah, and actually the Wiki page says it was FORMERLY observed by Norway and Iceland, so I guess they got rid of it when they became free. I'd love to see a SATW comic about this, with Finland and Sweden being all over the varme hveder discussion.
  8. Timothy M.
    Thanks Were you able to find an explanation in English or did you have to resort to translating Danish ? I didn't know about Færøerne and Grønland. I wonder if Iceland also has the tradition.
  9. Timothy M.
    Tomorrow will be Great Prayer Day (Store Bededag) in Denmark, so tonight I'm having Varme Hveder with butter and pålægschokolade. The bakers were closed on the Friday, so they made the buns to last till Saturday, but I think a lot of people eat the buns all of the holiday now (Thursday to Sunday). This tradition is more than 100 years old. @ColumbusGuy mentions the tradition in chapter 60 of his story.
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    Tomorrow will be Great Prayer Day (Store Bededag) in Denmark, so tonight I'm having Varme Hveder with butter and pålægschokolade. The bakers were only closed on the Friday, not the whole weekend, but I think a lot of people eat the buns all of the holiday now (Thursday to Sunday). This tradition is more than 100 years old.
  11. Timothy M.
    I was thinking of Jonah too, but mostly if I could go back in time and give him a shake and a shouting.
  12. Timothy M.
    Oohh I loved this one. Why don't you use it again on a bunch of other authors, @Carlos Hazday ? You could ask people to sign up to be asked this. I'm with Myr, Mann and Renee, although I'd like to meet the other alien in Maze for Three. But the snake Carthera is one of my favorites, too.
  13. Timothy M.
    The second book (Enforcer) of the chronicles is my favorite, and I read it again last week. I'm still hoping for a sequel telling Zef's story.
  14. Timothy M.
    Than it's good I only had 3 small edits for the next Endings chapter. Sorry it took me so long to get it back to you.
  15. Timothy M.
    Maybe that was meant for somebody who looked after the livestock - milked the cows in early morning and took them out to graze?
  16. Timothy M.
    Prompt 838 is quite similar to prompt 830, but I like both. It's good to have a bit of variation, instead of using the same prompt twice, as sometimes do.
  17. Timothy M.
    Yup - I made a post in the topic about your trouble with the bird's name, and even though I hid the actual name in a spoiler, it came up as hidden and needing approval by a Moderator. And that applied also when I removed the spoiler. Very interesting and good to know.
  18. Timothy M.
    Very interesting. I only found this topic because @Marty had problems describing birds in his garden using the British name. OK - I tried to remove the spoiler with the word great Ts - fair enough, you can work it out for yourselves. Still needs moderating, which is fine. Sorry about the bother. I like knowing these things, so thanks for your question, @Brayon and for the explanation, @Myr
  19. Timothy M.
    Let me know if you want a list of Danish swear words.
  20. Timothy M.
    Greetings from Denmark
  21. Timothy M.
    The name is also the same in Danish: forglemmigej.
  22. Timothy M.
    Hi Marty you're right about blæst being wind. But efeu means common ivy (Hedera helix), so the same plant as your garden wall. Most of the discussion in the article is about the owner of the wall having cut back the ivy at the top of the wall, because he was having the roof repaired, as the old cinema was being turned into apartments. So they're sort of blaming him for making the whole ivy plant collapsing. But he says he had suggested they share the cost of having the wall growth removed because it was too big, but they refused the idea, so then he only cut back the part on the top which was in the way. The funniest part is the old guy who owns the car, he says he doesn't care about a few scratches and bumps on the car, he's just happy he wasn't near the car when it happened.
  23. Timothy M.
    Sounds very sensible to me And at least you avoidede this : https://www.tv2east.dk/slagelse/gigantisk-vaegplante-vaelter-ned-over-pensionists-bil
  24. Timothy M.
    I have to admit I liked the wall with ivy better than the naked wall, though that looks OK too. Why did you remove everything rather than just the heavy overgrowth at the top of the wall ?
  25. Timothy M.
    We'll have to keep an eye out for the magic number 999,999 words. (and we're on page 1555).
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