Been on GW "MANY" years! Have never checked THIS forum!!!

9 years ago

Hello GW "Car-Forum" fans!!!

My name is Faron, & graduated HS in 1979. Hence the name "Faron79"!

I'm a proud resident of Fargo ND, and was born here waaaaayyy back in Sept. 1961. Uffda! Grew up farming, in an Eastern ND town.

Are there some "Long-time Regulars" here?

Faron

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mike_kaiser_gw
9 years ago
This section seems to be pretty slow. With so many brand/model specific forums on the Internet that makes some sense.
Faron79
Original Author
9 years ago
You're right of course!
I'm a member of a half-dozen specific auto-forums. Was hoping this one was busier.

Faron
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jemdandy
9 years ago
Uffda??? Of Finland extraction? Maybe a descendent of Finnish miners who came to the Kewanaw peninsula of Michigan to work the native copper mines.
Faron79
Original Author
9 years ago
LOL!!! Nope...I'm 95% Norwegian don'cha know! I even love Lutefisk!!!
Wife is 50/50, Norwegian & Swedish. Sadly, I've never been to MI. My brother has been there snowmobiling a couple times though!

Faron
mxyplux
9 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Vat kinda bait ya use fer lutefisk?
Faron79
Original Author
9 years ago
Oh ya 'der 'den....you yust dangle some lye over da boat. Da fish (Cod) take da lye, & it preserves-'em don'cha know! Then...you gotta soak out the lye for days. Den you hang-'em out to dry!!

Faron
mxyplux
9 years ago
One of my SIL’s liked lutefisk - I can’t even sit at the table. Family outing she was fishing and I think went to the lavatory. Anyway we hooked a piece of lutefisk to her line and thru it in. Don’t recall if we had to weight it down or it sank by itself. So she caught a lutefisk ya sure.
Faron79
Original Author
9 years ago
Oh ya...you bet'cha!
I "think" the closest translation of "Lutefisk" to English is "Lye-fish". Lye is obviously a very old preservative.

Faron
mxyplux
9 years ago
Lutefisk ville gag en nøkkelfigurer. Det bør tilberedes med hest husdyrgjødsel. Deretter kast lutefisk og spise hest husdyrgjødsel.
Faron79
Original Author
9 years ago
Wow! I'll have to have you translate that for me! My Mom could MAYBE read it...she's 85 now, & could speak some Norwegian.

Faron
mxyplux
9 years ago
Lutefisk would gag a maggot. It should be cooked with horse manure. Then throw away the lutefisk and eat the horse manure.
Faron79
Original Author
9 years ago
LOL!!!!!
You DO like Lefse though...right?!

Faron

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