Uff Da

[AJE]

Originally Posted by pk

My mom was 100 percent Norwegian, so we were always buying her uff da joke books, pins, magnets, coffee mugs, anything we could find. lol lol

She loved the joke books and always read the good ones to us. lol

All Norwegians love lefsa! It's great for eating and it also has many other uses...so many that some good Norwegians have written them in this song to be sung to the tune of "Just a Little Lovin"



Lefse's good for many tings,
ve can give yew proof,
For tiling on da kitchen floor
or patching up da roof.
People sometimes use it
as da soles upon dere feet
And some folks tink it even good to eat!

Chorus:

Leif Erickson, once had a boat,
it vas a leaky scow,
He said, "To beat Columbus
ve yust got to leave right now."
Da boat vas leaking badly
as dey neared da USA
But he plugged da holes,
ya, lefse saved da day!

Chorus:

If yew know vat lefse is
den yew can understood
It looks and feels like plastic
and it tastes yust like plywood!
Ve don't know who invented it,
ve don't know who to blame,
But if ye are a Norske,
yew eat it yust da same!

CHORUS:
Yust a little lefse vill go a long vay
Give you indiestion most all of da day
Put it on your menu, you'll be sure to say
Yust a little lefse vill go a long vay!

[pk]

We did not eat much Lefsa but we did look forward to my mother's home made Krub. Krub is like a giant dumpling with suet in the middle and can be served the first day out of the hot water or put in the refrigerator and cooled so it can be sliced and fried in butter. Either way is excellent and so worth the long time spent in preparing it.

I miss my mom's Krub so much. I know anyone of us could try to make it but somehow my mom and Krub every winter was the best thing to look forward to.

[AJE]

Ole and Lena .........Start Their Family. So anyvay, late one night, Lena vakes Ole and says, 'I tink its time!' So Ole fired up the Yohn Deere tractor and took her to the hospital to have their first baby. She had a little boy, the doctor looked over at Ole and said, 'Hey, Ole! You yust had a son! Ain't dat great! ' Vell, Ole got excited by dis, but yust den the doctor spoke up and he said, 'Hold on! We ain't finished yet!' The doctor den held up a little girl. He said, 'Hey, Ole! You got you a daughter!' She's a pretty little ting, too.... Ole got kind of puzzled by this, and then the doctor said, 'Holey Moley Ole, we still ain't done yet!' The doctor then delivered another boy and said, 'Ole, you yust had youself another boy!'

Ole was flabbergasted by this news! A couple days later, Ole brought Lena and the their three children home in the self propelled combine. He was real serious and he asked Lena, 'How come we got tree on the first try?'

Lena said, 'You remember dat night we ran out of Vaseline and you vent out in the garage and got dat dere 3-in-1 Oil?'

Ole said, 'Yeah, I do. Uffda!, it's a damn good ting I didn't get the WD-40!