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Norwegian, let's talk about Norwegian. We never talk about Norwegian. We don't. the Omaha, Nebraska, but he's studying in Norway as a doctoral student and he's picked up a lot of great

Norwegian slang that I know you're going to dig.

One of the expressions translates as to be in the middle of the butter's eye.

Be in the middle of the butter's eyes, butter as in the thing you spread on toast.

And it means to be in exactly the best possible spot.

And the idea there is that there's a Norwegian rice pudding

called resgots or something like that.

And traditionally you put a spoon of butter in the middle and it slightly

melts before serving it sounds just perfect. But if you're in the middle of the butter's

eye you're in exactly the right place. So the whole melted by the spoon is the butter's eye. Okay,

nice. Isn't that just gorgeous? And then this other one I really like is

Tach for Sist, which means thanks for the last time.

And it's what you say to somebody you haven't seen in a while,

typically when you bump into them at a party or something similar.

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