CONTENTS
Scandinavian Humor & Other Myths By John Louis Anderson
The New Scandinavian Gods: - 1
- Cheap cosmological excuses for why Scandinavian/Americans behave the way the way we do.
The MMNSI Test - 27
- The Minnesota Multi-Nordic Scandinavian-ness Inventory.
Peaceful Coexistence with Scandinavian/Americans. - 35
- How to Tell Scandinavians Apart.
- How to Be Scandinavian/American.
- Good and Bad Things about Scandinavian/Americans.
Scandinavian Immigration to America. - 53
- An America Letter from a Former Sailor.
- Why Did We Move So Far from the Ocean?
- Lutheran Street Gangs in New York City.
Blond and Bland Food: Cooking The Scandinavian/American
Way. - 65
- Rules for Snowblind Cooking.
- A Small Catechism of Lutheran Recipes.
- The White-Watchers Food Program and Menu Planners.
- Surprising, Inventive Jell-O.
- The Mystique of Lutefisk.
- Avoiding Food that Hurts.
Is Lutheranism Genetically Transmitted? - 91
- 60 Things to Worry about before Communion.
- Is Luther League an Aphrodisiac?
- 30 Reasons why your Mother Told You to Never Marry a Non-Scandinavian.
- Lutheran Church Suppers: The Mother of Manners.
- Are State High School Basketball Tournaments Really Only Orgies with Training Wheels?
Schooling for Scandinavian/Americans: The Importance of a G*L*C. - 109
- 25 reasons to go to a Good Lutheran College.
- Where Do They Find These People?: Lutheran College Types.
- Studying in Scandinavia.
- The Village Idiom:
- A New Scandinavian Phrase Book from Misinformation
- Language Services, Inc., AB,A/S. - 119
- In Public.
- At Your Relatives'.
- Romantic Situations.
Good Nordic Jobs: Time to Make Something of Yourself. - 125
- Do They Serve Lefse in the Company Cafeteria?
- A Pilgrim's Progress Edition: The Changing Lutheran Ministry.
- Logging in a Polyurethane World.
- Who Lives on a Farm Nowadays?
- Comic Relief for the Stoic Masses. - 139
- Behave Yourself!: Times It's Not Appropriate to Be Funny.
Nordic Entertainment:
How Do You Amuse a Scandinavian/American? - 143
- Fishing: Relaxing or coma-inducing?
- Eating and Arguing with Your Family.
- The Politics of Snow: Cross-Country vs Downhill Skiing.
- The Great '62 Scales Tax Revolt.
High Nordic Fashion Suits: Pants, Leisure, and Snowmobile. - 63
- The Wearing of the Belt.
- Polyester:The Curse of the Middle-Aged.
Fire and Ice:
Scandinavian/American Sex amid the Wind Chill. - 169
- No-Waist Nudes: The Sculptures of Vigelund.
- Postal-Orgasmic Sex.
- The Secret Language of Purses
The Nuclear Family Reaches Meltdown:
Family Reunions as Critical Mass. - 179
- Arguing Politics with a Deaf Uncle.
- Little Secrets in the Bookshelf.
- Civic Pride in Whatever: The District IV, Winnesheik County Pork Queen and Her Parade.
Weather or Not:
And The Coldest Spot in the Nation Today IS... - 187
- Traveler's Advisories.
- The Wine-Chill Factor.
- One-, Two-, and Three-Obscenity Colds.
Bergmania: Depression as Intellectual Chic. - 197
- Faking Your Way through Ingmar Bergman.
- The Ultimate Bergman Trivia Quiz
