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It is like naming a brand of chocolate "flavour".
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I remember this from a book of brain teasers taken from Reader's Digest. I think I did it when I was 12, but it also took me a while to figure it out.
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I got it, after some crazy pivot excel tableing.
The Swede, Brit and Dane all live in the red house. The German drinks beer together with his dogs and cats. The Norwegian has no house but he is probably dead since he smokes Blend, Pall Mall, Dunhill and BlueMaster. The cats drinks milk. The horse lives in the green house. The white house is empty (but the fish wants to run for election).
I think this Einstein thing is highly overrated, this was easy.
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So, the Norwegian is a bum? 
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You guys from the North are all scandinavinian friends, aren't you ?
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I suspect we get along better than most, but there's no real trust.
And we love to poke fun at each others like the French do to Belgians.
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Alas, we French are too condescending towards the Belgians, which is a pity because it spoils the relationship we have with them, and Belgians are great... Most here see it link a kind of grown-up/child relationship.
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I think it's easier when you're more similar in size.
There's a comic called Scandinavia and the World[^] that's illuminating our relationship fairly well.
It's Danish and obviously written from a Danish point of view, but usually it's dead on.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Scandinavia and the World
Sitting here in India, I've been a fan of this for some years now
Cheers,
Vikram.
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did it a few years back, took me around 40-45 minutes.
Repeated it a while back and did it in less than 30 minutes.
Not sure how that scores with the rest of the world though 
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2 Trials:
- Just writing down what I found out... too long I gave up
- Filling all houses with all options striking out what could not be... 25 minutes.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: Filling all houses with all options striking out what could not be... 25 minutes.
I think I went by process of elimination years ago when I last did it, and your time estimate sounds about right.
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They think, therefore they ARRRRR!
(It be talk like a pirate day, ye landlubbers!)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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They probably prefer a ship above a campervan for their holidays 
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- They sail in one of these ships: The Muppet Show - In the Navy
- Their captain is known as:
- Captain Hook
- The Dread Pirate Roberts
Dagmar HammarskjoldRagnar Danneskjold
FIXED: thanks to Greg Utas for pointing out my error.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
modified 19-Sep-21 15:30pm.
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 Dagmar Hammarskjold sounds cool ... First name sounds female to me, which makes it even better 
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It's actually from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
He's a sort of Robin Hood - he steals from corrupt governments (which in the book is all of them) and what we would call today "crony capitalists", uses some of his gains to pay his expenses, and keeps the rest in escrow until the Producers of the world finally throw off the moochers and other parasites. These Producers will then be reimbursed each according to what corruption, mooochers, and parasites cost them.
A rather idealistic view of piracy, but then the whole book is a polemic.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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This territory is quite unknown to me ... looks like a good read , thanks for the reference ...
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Be careful! You are treading on thin ice  Hard to see any mention of that author as non-political. Almost like that German guy M**x 
Mircea
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I'm well aware that Ayn Rand was a very controversial author. I did not discuss her views on politics, religion, or any other subject.
I fail to see how a short outline of one of the characters in her most well-known book constitutes a political / religious / other debate.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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In case the smilies in my message didn’t show it, let me spell it clearly that my reply was in jest. 😀
Let me head out before the thought police arrives 😜
Mircea
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Accurate description of the character, but it's Ragnar Danneskjold.
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That's good to read, because Dagmar is indeed a female name.
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Oops. My bad. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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It is.
Female that is.
Cool is in the eye of the beholder I suspect, to me its the name of a grandma.
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