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Targan
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posted November 17, 2002 10:24 PM |
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Anyway, one of the products was advertised as "Norwegian formula!!!" There was also a Norwegian flag on the bottle, in case you did not believe that it was, in fact a Norwegian formula. I feel honored to pay the premium to acquire such an exotic moisturizer."
Norway exotic?
yeah and the arctic has palm trees
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Snogard
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posted November 18, 2002 07:55 AM |
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It really doesn't matter who you are or where you live. All of the things they try to do will help you make the choice for you whether you try not to be influenced by it or not.
Just as sick as it sounds, you may be right!
Anyway, over here in Japan (and as a matter of fact, to a certain extent in Singapore as well), I have an impression that packaging and product's image come before anything (though things are changing nowadays). Tell the consumers you're selling track shoes that are made in China, and you'll see your shop closing down in ... a month's time. Tell them they are Nike (made in China), and you can start planning for a (few hundreds) chain store(s) to be opened soon. 
I'll keep a look out for the hand lotion; what's it call again?
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Morphy
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posted October 28, 2004 07:32 PM |
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Hehe... Is there anyone of you that have ever been in Norway? Looks like I'm the only Norwegian posting on this thread... Arctic? ehm... well... guess you haven't been here then. Hehe.
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Norway sucks 
nothing personal, but as a swede that is my statement
Well... On which reasons does Norway suck?
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Lord_Woock
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posted October 28, 2004 08:03 PM |
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Because they don't have lions and tigers
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FireSpirit
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posted October 28, 2004 08:04 PM |
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Norway sucks
Really? I think Sweden is not the best country to live in, either.
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doomfreak
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posted October 29, 2004 06:28 AM |
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Because they don't have lions and tigers
But doesn't that mean that every country sucks except Kenya?
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Lord_Woock
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posted October 29, 2004 12:54 PM |
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No it doesn't because the other countries acknowledge Kenya's superiority and therefore aren't be the suc.
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terje_the_ma...
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posted October 29, 2004 01:34 PM |
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Ignoring Woocks fetish for large catlike mammals, I shall try to answer the first post.
Yes, we in Norway have a special, secret, mega good handlotion recipe, that's inherithed down through the generations.
It was first brewed by the infamous viking chief Hallgrim the Dry, whose handskin kept cracking because of all the salt water and cold air, and all the handling of coarse wood (aka oars, etc...).
One day, when he was fooling around in a Russian village he and his gang of berserkes had just pillaged and looted, he spilled a liquid over his hands (no, I'm not gonna reveal what kind of liquid this was).
And suddenly, his hands were "as soft as the insides of your eyeballs", to use his own words.
Since then, no viking voyager has ever been bothered by dry skin.
In the 50s, during the reconstruction after the war, some smart entrepeneur thought of a plan of how we could get money to rebuild the country, in addition to the Marshall Support. We could bottle our ancient hand lotion and sell it to people in other rebuilding countries (and after WW2, there were a lot of those), so that their carpenters didn't have to get dry skin!
The first shipment of Norwegian Special Hand Lotion went to Denmark (as the Danes has always been the Guniea Pigs of Scandinavia; just look at who entered the EU first...), and since the Danes didn't take damage from it, and liked the way it felt to their skin, we extended our Hand Lotion export to all the countries in the Western world.
Today, all bottles with Norwegian Hand Lotion are actually made in Norway (some in Minnesota, but that's practically Norway), and still no non-Norwegian knows the reciepe (allthough five Swedish dudes stole it from us during WW2. We killed them, and blamed the Germans ).
So, when you buy Norwegian Hand Lotion, you are buying a quality branded product, yes, but the brand isn't just a marketing ploy; it's the truth!
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Morphy
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posted October 29, 2004 07:14 PM |
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Yes, we in Norway have a special, secret, mega good handlotion recipe, that's inherithed down through the generations.
Hem hem.. well...
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ratmonky
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posted October 30, 2004 05:45 PM |
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lol, terje that was really funny i enjoyed it.
well-earned qp, keep it going.
btw, as there exist such things as Swedish Pillow, English Breakfast Tea, Swiss Army Knife, Irish Cream, i see no reason why there shouldn't be a Norwegian moisturizing lotion.
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Svarog
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posted November 01, 2004 01:56 AM |
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A research I read the other day said that scientists proved that hand moisturizers can also be used as hand lubricants with great effects (u know what for )? (Us in Third World countries have no idea. The refined products of Western androgynous cosmetics still havent reached this corner of Earth.)
After I read this thread and the latest research, I suddenly felt enlightened. My long wandering in the prairies of my mind searching the answer to the eternal dilemma why Norwegians are a world brand in hand moist… i mean lubricants, came to an end. And then, as the strong validation of this theory came to my mind, i.e. the fact that the vikings never really populated and assimilated the places where they settled, I felt like Isaac Newton being hit by thousand apples at once. My theory was scientifically confirmed. I’m currently writing my book named “Only raid and trade, why no viking babies were made” where this breakthrough discovery in the field of Viking sex practice is sure to be included.
I still have one doubt: What was bort doing with those hand moisturisers in the first place?
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terje_the_ma...
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posted November 01, 2004 05:49 PM |
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Lol, could you please make what you're implying a little clearer?
All the years of using hand lubr... err, I mean hand moisturizers are tearing up my brains
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- Grenn, A Storm of Swords.
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Svarog
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posted November 03, 2004 03:08 AM |
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Arent you blind yet? 
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Orion
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posted November 03, 2004 03:20 AM |
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in australia we have
italian pasta
german enginering
ceylon tea
and brazillain coffee
with just about everything else we would rather by Australian made so that is how it is marketed to us
we even have adds encouraging us to buy australian made
and why would we want other country products when we make all the good stuff
balfours frog cakes, pie floaters, vegemite, beer, lawn mowers, clothes lines, ford and holdens
we are to proud of our own produce for most marketing ploys like that to work on us
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terje_the_ma...
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posted November 03, 2004 03:55 PM |
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Arent you blind yet?
No, my mother always makes sure that my hands are above my blanket...
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"Sometimes I think everyone's just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending to be brave is how you get brave, I don't know."
- Grenn, A Storm of Swords.
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Svarog
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posted November 04, 2004 03:21 AM |
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I bet she also checks how moist they are. A good Norwegian mother always checks all evidence pointing to unwanted traditional Norwegian rituals practice.
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terje_the_ma...
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posted November 04, 2004 11:07 AM |
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That she does. But I've got a small stock hidden beneath my bed. Can't let an 1200 year old tradition die out because of a purist German monk, can we?
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"Sometimes I think everyone's just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending to be brave is how you get brave, I don't know."
- Grenn, A Storm of Swords.
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