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The Viking Code

1. Look for Opportunities

2. Make Winners

3. Be Brave

4. Give Advice

5. Think Constructively

6. Take On Responsibility

7. Look Ahead

8. Settle on Education and Research

9. Oppose Envy and Indolence

10. Start Now

Beowulf movie

Got my copy of "Beowulf" today. Looking forward to the animation style that is supposed to rival "Polar Express". Extra visceral, though.

 

Have a copy of "Beowulf and Grendel" from 2 years back...

You Might Be A Viking If... Quiz

This has been around quite awhile and worth including.

 

1.) You get home for dinner, what do you prefer to eat?

   a) A bag of snacks

   b) Bread with cheese

   c) Raw meat of a polar bear

2.) Someone calls your sister "reindeerface", how do you react?

   a) You agree

   b) You punch him

   c) You kill him

3.) Your wife walks around in your pants. Do you:

  a) follow her lead and wear one of her dresses?

  b) demand for her to give you your pants back?

  c) divorce her

4.) How do you like to bathe?

   a) in a hot foam bath

   b) a cold shower

   c) let the dirt run off your body while in a sauna, then go for a roll in the snow afterwards

5.) What is your favorite hobby?

   a) reading books

  b) listening to great stories, tales of viking battles and adventures

  c) fighting and wrestling until you are exhausted

6.) You are invited to a wedding, how long do you enjoy the party afterwards?

  a) one hour

  b) one day

  c) a month

7.) You go to a party and drink some ale. When do you think you've drank too much?

   a) midnight

   b) when you are drunk

   c) when you pass out

8.) What is the best thing about horses?

   a) to ride off into nature

   b) horse races/racing

   c) training the horses to battle each other to the death

9.) What would you wear to battle?

   a) a suit of armour and a bullet proof vest

   b) a suit of armour and a helmet

   c) nothing but a small piece of leather that would inspire you with the strength of the animal

10.) What would you use as an alternative to toilet paper?

   a) yesterday's newspaper

   b) moss

   c) nothing

 

Total your answers, giving yourself 1 point for each "a", 2 points for each "b", and 3 points for each "c".

 

25-30 points = You are a Saga Viking!

20-24 points = Never fear, there is a bench in Valhalla with your name on it!

15-19 points = You might make an Ok Viking.

10-14 points = Perhaps the Viking life is not for you.

1 - 9 points = Viking, Hel! You'd better pick up a rapier, wear lace, and drench yourself in French perfume!

 

Dear Diary (with apologies to Moody Blues)

What a day it's been! Dear Diary. It's been just like a dream.

Woke up too late, wasn't where I should've been. For goodness sake, what's happening to me?

 

Write lightly,

Yours Truly

 

Dear Diary

 

It was cold outside my door. So many people by the score. Rushin' around so senselessly. They don't notice there's people like me.

 

Write lightly,

Yours Truly

 

Dear Diary

 

They don't know what they're playing, no, they've no way of knowing what the game is. Still they carry on doin' what they can outside me and politely.

 

Dear Diary

 

It's over. Will tomorrow be the same? I know that they're really not to blame. If they weren't so blind, then truly they'd see there's a much better way for them to be inside me.

 

Yours truly,

Dear Diary

 

Dear Diary

 

It was cold today but the sun came out later, so I went out and strolled about lookin' at the shops. Didn't really see anything I liked, so I didn't buy anything. Oh, now I know! I posted a letter; been quite a nice day. Somebody exploded an H-bomb today but it wasn't anyone I knew...

 

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