tregnier2795
Junior Member
You have entertained us long enough. Give the other young ladies a chance to exhibit.
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Post by tregnier2795 on Sept 27, 2009 22:19:44 GMT -5
I collect antiques. Furniture (particularly tables and chairs), books (especially those with pressed designs on the covers), lamps (oil, gas & early electric), and other miscellaneous items that I just like the look of.
Dunno how I got started, really.
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Post by Jedi Knight on Sept 27, 2009 23:59:52 GMT -5
I collect books, particularly by Norwegian authors from late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It is kind of refreshing to know I'll never have a complete collection.
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Post by MaybeNever on Sept 28, 2009 0:49:15 GMT -5
The following is a list of Norwegian writers from that period I know of:
Henrik Ibsen
...that is all.
Also, was there even a Norway (politically speaking) at that point? I know it was married to Sweden for awhile ending in 1905 and to Denmark for like 500 years before that, but I don't know how intensive that was in terms of independence.
And so that this isn't too horribly off topic, I collect trinkets of inconceivable hyperdimensionality. No, seriously, I mostly just collect funny pictures from the Internet. But I think everybody does that.
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Post by Jedi Knight on Sept 28, 2009 1:26:29 GMT -5
Norway was mostly an independent state during the Union with Sweden 1814-1905, with our own constitution, parliament and government. We didn't have our own Minister of Foreign Affairs, and we didn't have an official Norwegian diplomacy. Actually, the parliament's demand that Norway got its own Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Diplomacy was what caused the Union to break. Long, messy and complicated story.
You know Ibsen, which is good. When I name them, you may have heard of the Nobel Prize winners Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (I loathe that man and his writings.), Knut Hamsun (Brilliant author, politically retarded. Was a nazi.) and Sigrid Undset. I like Hamsun's early novels, otherwise I couldn't care less about our Nobel Prize winners. I am particularly fond of Arne Garborg, Olav Duun and Tarjei Vesaas. I'd recommend Vesaas, mostly because I know he is translated to English. The other two...do you read German? [/derail]
Edit: Searched them. Garborg's Peace and Duun's The People of Juvik are translated to English.
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Post by rookie on Sept 28, 2009 22:11:03 GMT -5
Old cookbooks. Like Eisenhower administration and before. Damn, those meals will kill you but they are so tasty. And beer glasses. Like half pint glasses from old breweries. Mrs. Rookie likes shot glasses. Actually, she loves the damn things. I had to build three shelves so far to store them.
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