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From: gsmith@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Gene Ward Smith)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Sven and Ole
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Date: Wed, 19-Feb-86 07:39:35 EST
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In article <588@teldata.UUCP> shad@teldata.UUCP (Warren Shadwick) writes:

>This is an old 'Sven and Olie' joke.  Here's another ...

  All this Sven and Ole and Lake Wobegone is puting me on a Minnesota
nostalgia trip. Here's another along similar lines:

   
  Sven was working in a lumbermill in Minnesota. One day he saws off the
index finger on his right hand. The foreman wonders about this, and asks
him "Sven, how did you do this? I've heard of square-headed Swedes, but
most people around here know enough to keep their finger out of the way 
of the saw."

  "Vel, id vas like dis. I vas taking the log like so, un den I vas 
bringing it along like dis, un den ... Ups! Der goes annodder one!"

ucbvax!brahms!gsmith    Gene Ward Smith/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720
ucbvax!weyl!gsmith      The Angry Number Theorist