Do you like it with Swedish butter?

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Swedes puzzled by discovery of butter-filled shoes

"STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Tourists have been left scratching their heads in disbelief after finding 70 pairs of shoes filled with butter on an isolated mountain top in northern Sweden, local news agency TT has reported.


The local newspaper in the town of Ostersund thinks the stunt could be the work of a copycat artist after it received an anonymous tip-off that directed reporters to a Web page showing butter-filled shoes in a desolate Tibetan landscape.


The picture depicts a work called "Shoes with butter" by Chinese photographic artist Yin Xiuzhen and dated 1996, the agency said.


Locals have been debating the artistic merit of the shoes and officials are considering what to do with them. "

What have our Swedish friends not been telling us? Is there a Swedish fetish which involves mountains, shoes and butter? How do they know it is not margarine? Is this a publicity stunt for a Swedish Halloween submission?

Og
 
oggbashan said:
Is this a publicity stunt for a Swedish Halloween submission?

Alien abductions?

-FF (the truth is out there somewhere)
 
Dear Ogg,

I would trust only you to write a story about a "shoes filled with butter on mountain tops" fetish, preferably in Virgilian sentences.

Your fan,

Perdita
 
oggbashan said:
What have our Swedish friends not been telling us? Is there a Swedish fetish which involves mountains, shoes and butter? How do they know it is not margarine? Is this a publicity stunt for a Swedish Halloween submission?
Dear Og,
I see a fine Swedish hand in this plot. Call Svenska in for questioning, soonest.
MG
 
ffreak said:
Alien abductions?

-FF (the truth is out there somewhere)

Do aliens take Swedes? I thought they only took American citizens from towns nobody has ever heard of.

Why leave the shoes and butter?

Og
 
I didn't know abductions were unique to the Americas. Hmm... wonder what we have that they can't get anywhere else?

I figure the 'butter' is the cholesterol that they leave behind. It's probably incompatible with their transporter mechanisms. As for the shoes, they probably only leave those shoes that are ugly. Aliens from advanced races would certainly have a good sense of shoe style.

-FF (too slippery for their machines to take me)
ps. aliens don't take people, flying saucers take people.
 
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oggbashan said:
Why leave the shoes and butter?
Dear Og,
A nightmarish scene involving abductees, rendering vats, and butter churns comes to mind. I'd prefer not to pursue it, however.
MG
 
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oggbashan said:
Do aliens take Swedes? I thought they only took American citizens from towns nobody has ever heard of.
Ogg, you delight me.

Perdita :)
 
ffreak said:
-FF (too slippery for their machines to take me)
ps. aliens don't take people, flying saucers take people.

In the same vein as "Bullets don't kill people, death kills people. Medical fact. Ask a doctor. You can't die from bullets, you can die from heart disease or a haemorrage. Bullets ain't the problem. 'Sides which I only use my machine gun in the safety of my own home... or car." (GTAIII Chatterbox radio A Donald Love station)

Gauche
 
getting down to the nitty gritty I need the important facts

A) What kind of shoes were they
B) what size because in shoes size does matter
c) Where in the heel did smoeone get enough butter to fill 70 pairs of shoes

d) in reference to response C is there some sort of black market
slavery involving churning butter and being a shoe cobbler ?
 
destinie21 said:
is there some sort of black market slavery involving churning butter and being a shoe cobbler ?

I thought the dwarfs taught man how to churn butter - if so, they may also have invented cobblers. Everyone knows a good flaky crust on a cobbler requires butter.

Maybe someone confused cobbler in the recipe for the handiwork of a shoe maker. Were the shoes flaky?

Then again, maybe they just didn't have a big enough refrigerator, mountains in Sweden are probably pretty cold. Perhaps they just haven't had a chance to bake yet.

-FF :D
ps. Good catch, Gauche, wondered if anyone would pick that one up.
 
ffreak said:
ps. Good catch, Gauche, wondered if anyone would pick that one up.
Oh, bother. There wasn't anything to pick up it was laid on us with a trowel. Plus Izzard did nearly the same routine on 'Dress to Kill'.

Harrumphily, Perdita :eek:
 
oggbashan said:
What have our Swedish friends not been telling us? Is there a Swedish fetish which involves mountains, shoes and butter?

Og, there is a Swedish fetish for anything under the sun.

Except maybe butter filled shoes.

/Ice - had nothing do to with it, I think
 
destinie21 said:

A) What kind of shoes were they
B) what size because in shoes size does matter
c) Where in the heel did smoeone get enough butter to fill 70 pairs of shoes

a) All kinds. Sneakers, pumps...
b) Various. I think it was a demographic thing there too, leaving noone's shoues out.
c) Here in Sweden we have something called Supermarkets. They sell stuff. Like butter

/Ice - still denying all involvement
 
It strikes me that if the Swedes are doing these kinds of things they must be harbouring Weapons of Mass Destruction someplace. I'm calling the White House to report this incident.
 
I had nothing to do with this, you hear? Nothing!




And it wasn't butter, it was margarine. Butter for 70 pair of shoes? Have you any idea of how much that would have cost?
 
Jenny _S said:
It strikes me that if the Swedes are doing these kinds of things they must be harbouring Weapons of Mass Destruction someplace. I'm calling the White House to report this incident.
No my friend, that would be Weapons of Mess Disctraction.
 
ffreak said:
[...] Everyone knows a good flaky crust on a cobbler requires butter.
[...]Were the shoes flaky?
[...]Perhaps they just haven't had a chance to bake yet.

-FF :D
Picture the AH as just a little crusty.
Are we as flaky as the shoes?
I think we all better slow down before we go off half baked...
 
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