{"id":5122,"date":"2010-01-08T11:20:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T17:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5122"},"modified":"2016-05-16T10:24:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T16:24:41","slug":"ole-and-sven-go-to-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5122","title":{"rendered":"Ole and Sven Go To Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Moon of Long Nights<\/p>\n<p>Scurrilous, obviously the\u00a0 product of\u00a0 a Northern Wisconsinite too long in the ice-house shanty with the heater turned on and the flame off:<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Ole and Sven die in a snowmobiling accident, drunker than<br \/>\nskunks, and go to Hell. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The Devil observes that they are really enjoying themselves. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">He says to them &#8220;Doesn&#8217;t the heat and smoke bother you?&#8221; <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Ole replies, &#8220;Vell, ya know, ve&#8217;re from nordern Minnesooota, <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">da land of snow an ice, an ve&#8217;re yust happy fer a chance <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">ta varm up a little bit, ya know.&#8221; <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The devil decides that these two aren&#8217;t miserable enough and turns<br \/>\nup the heat even more. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">When he returns to the room of the two guys from\u00a0Minnesota,<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">the devil finds them in light jackets and hats, grilling Walleye and drinking beer.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The devil is astonished and exclaims, &#8220;Everyone down here<br \/>\nis in abject misery, and you two seem to be enjoying yourselves?&#8221; <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Sven replies, &#8220;Vell, ya know, ve don&#8217;t git too much varm veather <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">up dere at da Falls, so ve&#8217;ve yust got ta haff a fish fry vhen da <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">veather&#8217;s dis nice.&#8221; <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The devil is absolutely furious. He can hardly see straight.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Finally he comes up with the answer. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The two guys love the heat because they have been cold all<br \/>\ntheir lives. The devil decides to turn all the heat off in Hell. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The next morning, the temperature is 60 below zero, icicles <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">are hanging everywhere, and\u00a0people are shivering so bad that <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">they are unable to wail, moan or gnash their teeth. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The devil smiles and heads for the room with Ole and Sven. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">He gets there and finds them back in their parkas, bomber <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">hats, and mittens. They are\u00a0jumping up and down, cheering, <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">yelling and screaming like mad men.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The devil is dumbfounded, &#8220;I don&#8217;t understand, when<br \/>\nI turn up the heat you&#8217;re happy. Now its freezing cold and<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re still happy. What is wrong with you two?&#8221; <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">They both look at the devil in surprise and say,<br \/>\n&#8220;Vell, don&#8217;t ya know, if hell is froze over, dat must<br \/>\nmean da Vikings von da Super Bowl&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Moon of Long Nights Scurrilous, obviously the\u00a0 product of\u00a0 a Northern Wisconsinite too long in the ice-house shanty with the heater turned on and the flame off: Ole and Sven die in a snowmobiling accident, drunker than skunks, and go to Hell. The Devil observes that they are really enjoying themselves. He says &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5122\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ole and Sven Go To Hell<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1979,754],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-5122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-sport","tag-vikings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5122"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41676,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions\/41676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}