Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Niklas Karlsson Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: naughty Pascal Date: 11 Jan 2026 21:38:00 GMT Organization: Department of Redundancy Department Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <10jo4bg$1e3l8$6@dont-email.me> <20260108184608.07ed7f69@coppelia.commodorejohn.com> <20260108201342.60f93466@coppelia.commodorejohn.com> <10jqjjk$292fm$3@dont-email.me> <546dnQj9vYmXn_70nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@giganews.com> <10jv3tv$3kkhi$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net jULLEQxJwFxQCc2LAnpKuAC2zTnR8bb1X71ERhxs3bUIpMFtQJ Cancel-Lock: sha1:8cX4h8dPDSmtDyyvt/mutGKtaOQ= sha256:4IMJYrz81y2qibRdHoDnJFfjFLZNfVunMoWePgjjPZc= User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:80943 alt.folklore.computers:233546 On 2026-01-11, rbowman wrote: > On Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:44:55 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote: > >> rbowman writes: >>>On Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:03:27 -0700, Peter Flass wrote: >>> >>> >> >>>> People just kept heading west, and when they got to England they had >>>> to stop. >>> >>> >> >>>He tells a plausible story. In 'Collapse' Jared Diamond claims that one >>>of the reasons for the abandonment of Greenland along with climate >>>change was an irrational reluctance of the Norse to eat fish. Excuse me? >>>He bases that on the lack of fish bones in the middens. I've never had >>>it but I think the process of producing hákarl might dissolve the bones. >> >> One word. Lutefisk. > > Butter, lots of butter. Big problem if the cows died off and there was no > butter. It shows up around here at Christmas time. I've been told by > knowledgeable people Norwegians in the US eat lutefisk and Norwegians in > Norway eat frozen pizza. I am not that familiar with that aspect of our neighbors, but I can believe it. We have lutfisk (yes, we spell it without the E) and I certainly don't care for it. Fortunately, very rarely has anyone attempted to serve it to me. Niklas -- Lithospheric flight paths typically result in extremely high drag coefficients, often quite a bit in excess of design parameters. -- Rick Dickinson