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

[Tony Godshall]

Hilarious.  Thanks Rick.

Those of you itching to visit the Bar Og and the capital of IKEA and
such, Norwegian has some surprisingly good fares, nonstop out of
Oakland to Oslo or Stockholm.

Sandy and I are scheduled for September, tho we'll be spending most of
our time in the vicinity of "the pompeii of the 900s" further south,
tho a drive on the autobahn and a train ride through the alps are also
on the agenda.  I'm turning 50, donchaknow, and the village is turning
500 .


On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 2:35 AM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
>
> Delightful fellow.  Really good travel television program.
>
>
>
>  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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