Comments on: 10th annual sauna championships

By: Cindy Scroggins

Cindy Scroggins — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:56:45 +0000

I must profess my preference for Norwegians above all Scandinavians.

I believe this is mainly due to Alan Arkin’s performance in The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming: When asked where he is from, Arkin’s character replies in a heavy Russian accent, “We are Norwiggens.”

By: Sheila Ryan

Sheila Ryan — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:41:37 +0000

And aren’t those Finns something?

By: Michael Grant Smith

Michael Grant Smith — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:44:35 +0000

The Olympics are awesome.

By: Sheila Ryan

Sheila Ryan — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:55:50 +0000

And he is a Jensen, yes? I am (to a considerable degree) a Jacobsen. It all fits together.

By: Sheila Ryan

Sheila Ryan — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:54:03 +0000

Many of Danny’s relations, I recall, live up around Rockford, am I right?

By: Rick Neece

Rick Neece — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:42:38 +0000

Sheila
Danny has used the word, “Scandihoovians” for as long as I’ve known him. And the word “Jutland,” comes up every now and then. I’m of a mind to say his people are from that region, too, though I couldn’t tell you if its the Northwest part of Jutland.

By: Sheila Ryan

Sheila Ryan — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:31:31 +0000

You Finns are something else, Mike. I scarcely even think of y’all as Scandihoovians. You’re beyond Scandihoovians. Some of y’all got serious intestinal fortitude. (This from a Dane, one with people in Jutland’s northwest.)

By: Mike Dresser

Mike Dresser — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:45:57 +0000

Ah, those are my people...my great grandma was straight off the boat from Finland. Their concept of sisu is a wonderful thing, often returning to my mind in moments of adversity. That and a recipe for cardamom bread (pulla), are my cultural inheritance. It's enough.