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Peter Svensson
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Posted: 13 December 2008 at 6:08pm | IP Logged | 1  

Congrats! While I dislike LA, I love the opportunities it brings! He'll have a great time.
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Lars Johansson
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Posted: 14 December 2008 at 3:44am | IP Logged | 2  

Lars I love that commercial.

I meant a commercial for Tom not or Tom. Jodi, you should make a Bjorn Borg toy also so you can meet him. The toy should have one tennis racket and in the other hand a Donald Duck comic.

He also was excited by the Weinstein Company where he would be a script reader.

Cool. My ex girlfriend was working with some Miramax guy in some way, I beleive the W's are from Miramax.

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Joakim Jahlmar
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Posted: 14 December 2008 at 6:43am | IP Logged | 3  

Lars wrote:
”A movie or Tom, two Svenssons getting married”

I loved that li’l clip. So sweet, nice and the whole thing.  Why on Earth would peopel be against stuff like that? It is beyond me.

Peter wrote:
”Oh! I also get ’Sevenson’ a lot. The ’Sv’ sound isn't common in English, so many people struggle to pronounce it properly.”

Actually the sound (or a close approximate) is readily available in English to the letter combination is not. Take the Swedish name for Sweden, which is Sverige. If I should spell it so that you English native speakers came closer to getting the pronunciation down, I’d spell it like this Sphere-Yeah. To get it really right, you’d probably have to pronounce Sphere a bit ”faster” than usual, but nevertheless you’d be close by.

By the same reasoning Svensson could probably be ”spelled” as Sphens-On... at least for a more Swedish pronunciation.

Incidentally, since we’ve mentioned Björn Borg, the best way to get the Swedish pronunciation of that across would probably be:  Bj-Earn Borry

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Lars Johansson
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Posted: 14 December 2008 at 6:47am | IP Logged | 4  

A scene from Facts of Life:

The big girl, forgot her name: - I am going to meet Bjorn.

Tootie: Do you mean Bjorn Borg?

- There is only one Bjorn.

(Laugh track.)

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Steve D Swanson
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Posted: 14 December 2008 at 7:06am | IP Logged | 5  

I had to make an enquiry at a help desk last week and needed to give the woman my name. I said Swanson thinking that would be enough. She then wrote down Sheaunsea which I corrected by saying Swan like the bird and son like daughter and son. That didn't help much so I wrote it down for her and then she called someone else and, looking at the card where I had just written the name, said; "Sveasou". Slightly exasperated at this point I just leaned to the phone and said Swanson loudly and finally got the answer I was looking for. Obviously she wasn't a native english speaker but Swanson is actually spelled pretty much phonetically and I'm not sure how you can hear the son part as if it ends in a vowel.

Interesting bit about the double esses, Joakim, I have only ever heard the old family name spoken and never written so I just assumed the lack of an S. As to Peter being a distant cousin, my great grampa had 17 kids and when I went to a family reuninon when I was 12 there was over a barn full of his descendants. Must have been at least 200 of them and probably more that weren't able to attend.

But, and this is key, Kristy Swanson is in no way a relation of mine and thus it is perfectly acceptable for me to lust after her.

Oh, and Steve means Crown. I like that. And Sven is apparently Youth (who names their child kid?) so combined it's Crown Youth's Son. And if two of us are in a room it becomes 'Da two yutes in question'.

Also, just as a bit of trivia, french fries are not french fries because they came from france (from what I understand they came, or were made popular first, in Belgium) they are french fries because of the method by which they are cut. They are frenched fries.

So Tom is Twin cut into long spears. Which is kind of odd when you think about it.

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Joakim Jahlmar
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Posted: 14 December 2008 at 10:40am | IP Logged | 6  

Steve,  the Swedish term for male virginity would be "svendom", so in slang a male virgin can be a "svenne".  ;)
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Brian Talley
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Posted: 14 December 2008 at 1:13pm | IP Logged | 7  

Took Michael to see Santa yesterday.......

 

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Al Cook
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Posted: 14 December 2008 at 1:23pm | IP Logged | 8  

Awesome.
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Joakim Jahlmar
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Posted: 14 December 2008 at 3:10pm | IP Logged | 9  

Has Santa been trimming his beard?  It's seems a bit less thick and such than usual.
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David Ferguson
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Posted: 14 December 2008 at 6:15pm | IP Logged | 10  

It's the recession. They're cutting everything back.
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Joakim Jahlmar
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Posted: 15 December 2008 at 8:47am | IP Logged | 11  

So... if they've downsized Santa's beard... I can't help but wonder about the elfs.
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Marc Baptiste
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Brian,

Does he just get cuter and cuter with each pic you post!?!?!?
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