wednesday, april 07, 2004
ha ha those scandinavians
boingboing reports an “oddly-named IKEA work bench”: fartfull.
my mom likes to tell the story of some distant childhood neighbor who was from norway, or had norwegian parents, or something.
he wanted a bicycle. he really wanted a bicycle. he saved up money and one day he had enough to buy a bicycle. he went to the bicycle store and excitedly picked out a bicycle. he jumped up and down and asked the store clerk, “does it go fart? does it go fart?”
yeah…the clerk looked at him weird.
“fart” means “speed” in norwegian (and swedish). he was so excited, he forgot the english word.
submunition has more funny names, including the “jerker” computer table.
sarah (my older sister) once told me, when we were in IKEA one afternoon, that the product names sound like a swedish-american trying to sound like a swedish person trying to sound american.
comments (2)
sounds like material for "It's Swedish": http://waffle.wootest.net/is/
– shawn on 4/8/2004 19:56:06
Very.
– Jesper on 4/12/2004 13:11:27
