Tuesday, 17 May 2011

Happy birthday Norway!

Norway is 197 years old today. I'm sure it's older than that, but that's what Wikipedia says.

And I thought my knowledge of Monty Python was pretty good but this one passed me by! This was from the first programme in series 4 (the last one), first shown in October 1974.



"Highlights of that broadcast will be discussed later by Lord George-Brown, ex-Foreign Secretary, Mr Sven Olafson, the ex-Norwegian Minister of Finance, Sir Charles Ollendorff, ex-Chairman of the Norwegian Trades Council, Mr Hamish McLavell, the Mayor of Wick, the nearest large town to Norway, Mrs Betty Norday, whose name sounds remarkably like Norway, Mr Brian Waynor, whose name is an anagram of Norway, Mr and Mrs Ford, whose name sounds like fjord, of which there are a lot in Norway, Ron and Christine Boslo ..."

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