Thursday, September 27, 2007

Danish humor, redux

Today several of my Danish colleagues who read this assured me, with visible grins and twinkles of eye, that they can make all the jokes they want in English. They only shift to Danish to make jokes about me. Nice.

Maybe. Admittedly my new Danish haircut is pretty funny, but I still think they they make a few other kinds of jokes in Danish. They seem to have had a lot of practice, even before I got here.

Danes are definitely the jokers of the Scandinavian world. When the Norse gods began to fade away, I think Loki, the trickster, took out Danish citizenship and hung around in Aarhus.

1 comment:

Rolfo said...

Both Kristy and I want visible evidence of what a Danish haircut looks like. Americans like to laugh, too.