[FRIAM] FW: Thread bender

[Steve Smith]

> Funny you say I was alluding to Gods.  I was thinking about what would
> be a good name for a caveman.  I looked at the list of characters in
> the comic strip B.C.  One of them was "Thor".

I was wondering why the joke mixed the two tropes (caveman and gods)!

At Merle's meeting in Stockholm in December, the first Swede I met had
written on his name tag "Thunder Bear".  It was a little hard to keep a
straight face while addressing him, and it took most of the evening at a
dinner table with him (and 8 others?) to discover that his given name
was "**Torbjörn*" *which unsurprisingly translates to: "Thunder Bear".  
I thought it odd and unique but not surprising on reflection.   At the
end of my trip there, I took a one-night AirBnB stay at the home of a
young (30something) man who turned out to be very fascinating to chat
with AND his name was also **Torbjörn* *and he made it clear that this
is a very common name throughout modern Scandinavia.

Glen keeps telling us that "communication doesn't exist", yet we DO
continue to attempt/pretend to do it!

- Steve


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