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From: "Lou Halsan" <>
Subject: Daily Joke - Lou Halsan
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 09:50:26 -0800


From: "Hans Myhre." Lou.
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Here are some Uffda's:
Uffda is not in the dictionary, but for many Scandinavians, it is an
all-purpose expression covering a variety of situations such as:

Uffda is: Looking into the mirror and discovering...you.re not getting
better, you.re just getting older.

Uffda is: Eating hot soup when you've got a running nose.

Uffda is: Waking yourself up in church with your own snoring.

Uffda is: Sneezing so hard that your false teeth end up in the bread
plate.

Uffda is: Walking downtown and then trying to remember what you wanted.

Uffda is: Getting swished in the face with a cow's wet tail.

Uffda is: Trying to pour two buckets of manure into one bucket.

Uffda is: Eating a delicious sandwich and then discovering the spread is
catfood.

Uffda is: Arriving late at a lutefisk supper and getting served minced
ham instead.

Uffda is: When two "steady" girl friends find out about each other.

Uffda is: Trying to look at yourself in the mirror January 1st.

Uffda is: Looking in your rear view mirror and seeing flashing red
lights.

Uffda is: Pushing the light switch and suddenly remembering you forgot
to pay the electric bill.

Uffda is:Noticing non-Norwegian at a church dinner using lefse for a
napkin.

Uffda is: Watching what dogs do to the lutefisk piled up in front of the
butchers shop.
(Ole said, dat makes the flavor)

Uffda is: Forgetting your mother-in-laws first name.

Uffda is: Not being a Norwegian .

Uffda is: Being a Swede.

Uffda is: The same as Charlie Brown's "Good Grief"




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