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Global warming is destroying Swedish gingerbread houses.
(Via Tabitha R. and Blue Crab Boulevard)
Meanwhile, in sub-tropical Orlando, FL, there’s a gingerbread house so big two people work inside it, selling gingerbread cookies and smaller houses. Apparently a new-fangled thingy called “air conditioning” is involved.
Oh, and a structure that’s not dependent on icing.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 12 18 at 10:43 AM • permalinkWhile much of Sweden is usually gripped by freezing temperatures and heavy snow in December, southern parts of the country have recorded their mildest start to the month for decades. In recent days Anna’s has received some 40 complaints from angry customers whose carefully crafted gingerbread houses have collapsed.
Let me see if I understand this problem. Sweden is experiencing mild winter weather, with less freezing cold, snow, and ice. And yet some Swedes are angry because ... their gingerbread houses aren’t firm enough?
Thank god we don’t rely on Sweden in the War Against Terrorism. Or for anything else now that I think about it.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 12 18 at 10:53 AM • permalinkSweden can ship their gingerbread concotions to me….the thermometer says 18 F (scientific reactionaries: that’s -8 C) this morning.
Swedish Ministry of Holiday Sweets: Just drop me an e-mail, and I’ll send you the shipping address. No COD, but I’ll make sure that these goodies are truly appreciated.
PS: Can you send some hot Swedish models along, to help with unpacking? Females only, under 30. Thanks!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 12 18 at 10:56 AM • permalinkWiccan Homeowner Threatened by Humidity
Dateline: The Forest by E. Humperdinck
HUD and FEMA officials are at a loss to explain the delay in shipments of desperately needed supplies of confectioners sugar and rebar gumdrops after the disaster. Miss Rosina Leckermaul, local herbalist, is distraught over her impending homelessness. “Knusper knusper knaeuschen, what the fuck’s up with my Haeuschen?” She was heard to lament.. Ms Leckermaul’s foster children, ( “hiding in the oven again, the little rascals!” ) Hansel and Gretel apparently lost even their last names in the disaster according to Child Services. “This will again be a chocolate house” promised Woodsman R Nagin.Ms Leckermaul’s foster children… “This will again be a chocolate house” promised Woodsman R Nagin.
LMAO!
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 12 18 at 01:28 PM • permalink” . . . southern parts of the country have recorded their mildest start to the month for decades.”
Doesn’t that mean that “decades” ago, it was even milder (i.e. warmer) than at present? Perhaps in anticipation of the future invention of fluorocarbons?
Posted by Bruce Lagasse on 2006 12 18 at 02:59 PM • permalinkClearly, this is a retaliation by the Christian patriarchy against diverse paganistic traditions of gingerbread house dwelling. A blatant insult!
Posted by Tungsten Monk on 2006 12 18 at 04:53 PM • permalink#13 Ian, I’ve had 38 christmases in Australia, and I am yet to have a gingerbread house. #39 is coming up, and I don’t see a gingerbread on the horizon there, either.
Christmas in Australia is:
cricket (both at the G and on the beach)
sunburn
overeating
good company
more eating
swimming
cricket
church on christmas day
doing the rounds of the rellos and collecting yet more pressies
good wine (or beer if you prefer)
ham off the bone
roast chickens
salad
plum pudding (with loads of custard)
trifle
barbecues
cricket
searing temperatures with no rain in sight
christmas beetles
No gingerbread houses.There was also one memorable christmas spent up at Tarcutta in the late 70s in the middle of, yes, you guessed it - a drought!
No global warminising then, although we did have a locust plague that was a lot of fun for us kids.
I didn’t get a gingerbread house then, either.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 12 18 at 09:53 PM • permalinkI will worry when it affects the Swedish erotica industry.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 18 at 10:13 PM • permalink#8
The present girliness of Scandinavia is a direct consequence of the Viking episodes. For several centuries, all the vigorous, aggressive members of the population invaded and settled other place - Britain, Ireland, Normandy etc. As a result, Scandinavia is now descended from people who had the chance to invade, rape and pillage other countries, but preferred to stay home and knit organic tofu instead.
its pretty humid up here in queensland right now and the gingerbread houses i’ve seen around seem to be holding up alright- perhaps the swedes need to tighten their building codes up a bit
the swedes should invite gore over for a while and focus on their real problems- gagging unni wikan might be a start
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 18 at 11:54 PM • permalinkGlobal Warming is so awful that here in Southern California we just tied the record for our coldest night ever last night… 34 degrees F.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 12 20 at 10:46 PM • permalink
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I don’t think there’s a single problem in the world that can’t be blamed on GW Bush, Jews or Global Warming.
And just think if those three forces combined their efforts!