Talk:Anghammarad

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In Swedish, ånghhammarad means "steam hammered". Just a coincidence?

Oh, probably not...--Old Dickens 18:58, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

I'm sure the phrase, or something similar, is used by the Monty Python team in the lyrics to their "Trondheim Hammer Dance", a quaint Norwegian folkway "vhich is performed every twenty-five minutes in zer town of Trondheim, in vhich zer old ladies are struck upon zer head with zer round..."

(The opening sketch on one of the Python LP records: at this poin an apologetic John Cleese breaks in to announce that the record you have just bought is not, in fact, the latest offering from Monty Python's Flying Circus, but in fact a compilation of old Scandinavian folk songs called "Pleasures of the Dance". We apologise for the inconvenience and the people responsible have been taken outside and shot.)


I shall Google lyrics...--AgProv 09:27, 25 May 2010 (UTC)