Swedish comedian Povel Ramels did musical comedy in the late 50′s and early 60′s. Too bad I couldn’t understand a fucking thing he said. It was probably very funny.
Swedish comedian Povel Ramels did musical comedy in the late 50′s and early 60′s. Too bad I couldn’t understand a fucking thing he said. It was probably very funny.
The man was travelling with his daughter on the Intercity train which departed from Stockholm shortly after noon Monday. At 2:30 p.m. the train stopped at Hallsberg. The man used the opportunity to take a smoke on the platform, however, before he had finished his cigarette the train pulled out.
“He did the unwise thing to jump on and was hanging on the last car,” said Magnus Andersson, media contact at Svenska Jernvägar. “He managed to hang on for 15 to 20 minutes. When the train personnel discovered this, they pulled the emergency brake and got him inside.”
According to the paper, it was the man’s 9-year-old daughter who made the train personnel aware of the situation when she asked for her father. The girl talked to the conductor, explained Stina Abrahamsson, age 23. “She asked for her daddy, but the conductor said that if anyone was stupid enough to step of the train, had himself to blame.”
However, the man hanging on for his dear life happened to have his cell phone and he managed to contact the train personnel.
…another good reason to have a cell phone!
The self-proclaimed alcohol inspector became plastered as he was allegedly checking the alcohol content of the restaurant’s drinks.
At a restaurant in Söderhamn in Sweden, the man introduced himself as alcohol inspector from the local authorities. He said that he was going to control that the restaurant provided the correct amount of alcohol in drinks. Alcohol worth about NOK 660 (USD $95) was placed in front of the 59-year-old man, who immediately started to investigate the volume and the amount of alcohol in the drinks.
After a while the man became so drunk that he started to throw the alcohol all over the place. At that time, the staff concluded that something was not quite right, and called the police. The false alcohol inspector was sentenced to pay fines.
A cream made from human breast milk and nicknamed Hamlet can dramatically reduce, and often eliminate, stubborn common warts, Swedish doctors reported. “Human Alpha-lactalbumin Made Lethal to Tumor” cells, which the researchers refer to by the whimsical acronym HAMLET, is the active ingredient that forces the wart cell to self-destruct by accumulating in each cell’s nucleus and interfering with its control process.
The results, published in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine, may extend well beyond wart treatment because the same class of viruses that cause those growths are also responsible for cervical cancer, genital warts, and some types of skin cancer.
Since doctors can cheaply eliminate warts by freezing, the new cream “will probably never be able to compete with existing inexpensive therapies for cutaneous viral warts,” said Jan Bouwes Bavinck and Mariet Feltkamp of Leiden University Medical Center.
…I can see the dairy now!
STOCKHOLM – A wallet lost by a Swedish teenager more than 40 years ago has been returned, complete with the cash its owner once considered a small fortune.
Gulli Wihlborg was 18 when she lost the red wallet while riding her bicycle in the southern Sweden town of Trelleborg in 1963. So after four decades, she was stunned to open an envelope last week and find that someone had anonymously sent her the long forgotten wallet.
“It’s fantastic,” She said the wallet contained old photographs and receipts, and even all the cash she remembered losing. “It’s exactly 45 kronor and 54 oere, ($6.17). That was a lot of money for me then. I was renting a furnished room for 90 kronor, so that was half my rent,” she said. Adjusted for inflation, the amount of cash she lost would now be worth 412 kronor ($55.80).
The sender did not provide any clues about their identity, just a note that read: “Dear Gulli, you should never give up hope. Here’s your wallet that was found on (the street) Oestersjoegatan many years ago.
This gives procrastination a whole new meaning!
A survey has found that 65 per cent of Britons do not know which US city the hit musical Chicago is set in, 57 per cent do not know where the TV soap opera Dallas was set, and 64 per cent do not know where the French Alps are.
Police in Sweden are confident of catching a burglar who used the toilet but forgot to flush. Officers say they recovered a DNA sample from the toilet bowl after $60,000 worth of computers were stolen from a paper plant.
A flight in the US proved lucky for a British woman who had a heart attack. Fifteen heart specialists bound for a medical conference in Florida stood up to offer help when a flight attendant asked: “Is there a doctor on board?”
A Colombian tried to burgle the house of a rich man by hiding inside a box and posting himself to it. But the owners of the house got suspicious when the big package arrived and called the bomb squad.
Zimbabwe’s soccer friendly match with El Salvador in Harare was cancelled after the visitors proved to be fake. The bogus team was a squad of club players put together by a sportswear company.
The car of two Belgian rabbit poachers had been fitted with tyre spikes to slow pursuers, shields on the number plates and a device to eject old bicycles on to the road. Police nabbed them with 14 rabbits.
Northern India police are being paid 30 rupees (65 cents) extra a month to grow a moustache to give them more authority because research has shown they will be taken more seriously.
Doctors in the northern Tanzanian town of Arusha have performed an operation on a 54-year-old man who accidentally swallowed a toothbrush. Marijan Saleh was brushing his teeth on Tuesday when the brush accidentally slid down his throat and ended up in his stomach. “He was operated on and the toothbrush removed from the intestines,” said the spokesman from the Selian Hospital in Arusha.