A Public Service Announcement from Norway.

[krikkert]

As many of you may have seen the film "The Golden Compass", I would like to correct a few misconceptions presented about Norway in it:

• Polar bears do not wander the streets randomly (they have reservations)
• Neither do we ride armed polar bears to war (banned by treaty, Sweden didn't like 'em)
• We're not run by a Magisterium (we're run by the

Comments

[deductress]

Neither do we ride armed polar bears to war

You......... don't...?

[da_pineapple]

Well, there's all of my hopes and dreams shattered. Damn you, Christer. :-P

;-)

[voxwoman]

But do they sound like Ian McKellan? And do they work for whiskey?

[krikkert]

I'm sure some of them do. And no, only the non-Panzerbjørns work for whiskey.

[voxwoman]

It's probably a good thing I'm not having any more kids. I'd want to name the next one Panzerbjørn.

These are even cooler than the 25mm figures I have of a sled being pulled by 3 polar bears.

I must now resist the temptation to put armor on the polar bears I'm going to have on my next quilt (I'm doing a series of animal quilts, and the bears are going to be first or second. Maybe I'll do the wolf quilt first).

[krikkert]

Well, Bjørn is a Norwegian name. My father's name, Bjørnar, literally means 'Bears'. So Panzerbjørn could just be a really tough guy called Bjørn. :)

[fakiiri]

We have to get that reservation thing going over here, too. The damn polar bears stalk every corner these days.

[krikkert]

They take honest people's jobs, too!

[amamelina]

This sounds silly but, you got polar bears? Honestly, I didn't know that.

As for the armor, is that custom made? Or do they order it from a catalog? Off the rack?

[krikkert]

We enslave dwarves to fashion it, tailored individually to each Panzerbjørn.