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There are lots of jokes about norwegian-americans in lutheran churches which are spot on. likewise for passive aggressive minnesotans.

And everyone i’ve ever known from wisconsin would at least be considered a mild alcoholic anywhere else.

Stereotypes are what they are, first order approximations.

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As a Norwegian living in America I'd love to hear some of these. Got a link?

As a great grandson of Norwegian immigrants - (They were some of the first Norwegians to Ballard Seattle (where the king and queen of norway still? visit) - My great grandfather owned the first bakery there.

The sense of humor is my cup of tea: puns.

Dead-pan-really-good-puns. My Norwegian and Swedish friends are as punny as me.

Do you like puns?

Give me a topic for a pun-off

(as you can see from my last name "stave" '*staava*' (I don't know how to phonetically spell it - but based on stave churches...)

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I used to think I was indecisive... but now I'm just not sure.

I believe there was an entire episode of Almost Live! where Bill Nye went around Ballard as a cop arresting people for not conforming to Norwegian stereotypes

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