From: Brooklyn
Category: Other
Date: 9/8/99
Time: 10:02:22 AM
Remote Name: 207.238.28.10
I had a friend was a big baseball player back in high school...
Late in the college game I learned that 3 semesters of a foreign language were required to graduate. Since my University was renowned for its size (if not its academics) profs were quite taken with failing students to create an illusion of learnedness among the survivors. Following the tried and true "path of least resistance" to my degree I signed on for Swedish knowing that there were, mindboggingly, 3 professors for about 50 students. "Fail too many students and someone's out of a job" thinking gave me an unwarranted sense of security. If I had known the class would meet everyday at 7:55 a.m. I would have saved everyone the trouble and dropped out. Anyway, if you can speak swedish you can get by in Norway & Denmark, whereas if you speak Norwegian or Danish you can only manage in Sweden. So Swedish is kinda like a 3 in 1 deal. The existing link. Or so I've heard. Of course people up that way may speak a word or two of english, but that's not really the point.
Back to me. After the novelty of telling people I was studying Swedish wore off (this posting is a sorta second coming of that novelty) I was left with the possibility of parlaying the pursuit into getting laid by loose Swedish babes. But they took one look at my crotch, saw that I had an armadillo in my pants, and ran away.