The doctor tells Ole he only has a few days left to live. Ole thinks a little, looks hard at Lena, and says "Lena, promise me. Swear to me that when I'm gone, you'll marry Sven Svenson."
"SVEN SVENSON?!?!?!" she shrieks, you've hated him all your life! Ole answers, yep and I still do.
Cake
A few days pass. Now Ole only has a few hours left to live. Lying in bed, he smells something. Cake. Chocolate cake, his favorite! He crawls out of bed and drags himself to the kitchen.
When Lena walks in, there is Ole, sitting at the kitchen table, eating cake. She hollers at him, Ole! What are you doing in here? You're sick! You should be in bed! You shouldn't be out here eating cake! That's for the funeral!
The Newspaper
Ole died. Lena goes to the newspaper office to print the death notice. The clerk asks her, what do you want it to say? Ole died. The clerk looks up. What else? Nothing else. But Lena, you were married to Ole all those years. Don't you want to say anything else about him? Nope. The clerk thinks a minute. You know, Lena, it won't cost you any more if you add a little. The first ten words are the same price. Ten words, and it won't cost extra she asks? The clerk nods. Lena thinks hard, then says, Ole died. Boat for sale.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
CinnamonGirl wrote: Not Ole and Lena jokes. Are you from Minnesota?
I'm afraid it's worse than that... I'm a Yooper, 30 miles northeast of Iron Mountain in fact. I love the "cold" weather we get here in Colorado and the fact that the worst storms are nothing compared to the weather I grew up with in the UP. Here in God's country the sun shines more days than it doesn't and the weather comes and goes by the hour.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
