[conspire] Having a great time at the ol' Bar Og

[Ruben Safir]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 02:35:56AM -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> 
> Delightful fellow.  Really good travel television program.
> 
> 


I thought this had to do with Har Carmel

and barn fires.  


Is that the national museum that has the last Rembrand masterpeice?

Ruben

> 
>  From: Rick Moen
>  To: Rudy Maxa
>  Subject: Bar Og Restaurant in Oslo
> 
> Hello, Mr. Maxa.  I've been a devoted fan of your work on both radio
> and television for a very long time.  I hope you won't take it amiss
> if I rib you a bit over one passing detail, in a particularly lovely
> episode of 'Smart Travels: Europe with Rudy Maxa'.  It was episode 309,
> Oslo & Norway.
> 
> At nine minutes in, just after a visit the National Art Museum, your
> narration says 'After quenching our cultural thirst, we're ready to
> sample this city's culinary delights.  Just outside the city center, I
> discovered the hip, new Bar Og restaurant.'  [Establishing shot:  front of
> the business's storefront, which indeed says 'BAR OG RESTAURANT',
> overhead.]  '...Bar Og uses fresh, local ingredients, such as halibut
> and reindeer, prepared with a little modern panache.'
> 
> And your visit is a sensitive tour de force, and also mouth-watering
> -- but the narration left me as a Norwegian-American smiling, because....
> 
> 'Og' is the word in the Norwegian language for 'and'.
> 
> It's possible that the restaurant's name was indeed 'Bar and
> Restaurant', but the smart money's on something else.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Rick M.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  From: Rudy Maxa
>  To: Rick Moen
>  Subject: Bar Og Restaurant in Oslo
> 
> Rick, 
> 
> I'm certain you're right!  Yikes.
> 
> Usually we check all foreign words with a local guide, but I guess we
> missed that one.
> 
> I don't feel quite as badly as I do about our Zurich show, in which
> during a stand up, I identified Zurich as the capital of Switzerland.
> 
> Now, as a kid in Germany, we often visited Bern because my parents had
> great friends stationed at the US Embassy there.  In summer, I was
> allowed to swim in the embassy pool.  So, since I was a kid, I knew Bern
> was the capital of Switzerland.  I guess my brain was turned off, and
> when I stood outside in the cold (we were filming a Christmas show), I
> simply recited the line in my script (which I didn't write), and didn't
> even think about what I was saying.
> 
> I've been groveling for that one for 12 years now.  Damn show just keeps
> getting played over and over!
> 
> Thanks for enlightening me!  It won't happen again.  And I appreciate
> your kind email.
> 
> Best,
> Rudy
> 
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