Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 05, 2012
December 04, 2012
December 06, 2012
Transcript:
Frazz: My grandpa used to be kind of type A. He was never satisfied. Now he says any day his body temperature is above room temperature is a good day. Caulfield: Isn't your grandpa Norwegian? Frazz: He is. Caulfield: Isn't a sauna a room. Frazz: Maybe. He Doesn't spend the whole day in it.
runar almost 12 years ago
Saunas are Finnish, not Norwegian, though their use has spread throughout Scandinavia.The sauna is the room. The heat bath is called a kylpy.
vwdualnomand almost 12 years ago
i wonder why they spend a hour in the sauna, then splash cold water on themselves, and go back into the sauna to repeat the process all while they drink vodka.
davidh48 almost 12 years ago
Hot tubs and snow, excellent. Just add “friends.”
rshive almost 12 years ago
As Garrison Keillor put it once, “sun-crazed Scandinavians”.
daveoverpar almost 12 years ago
Sauna’s use rocks. Hence the drink ‘vodka on the rocks’.
catzilla23 almost 12 years ago
you don’t get a cold from ambient temperature, you get a cold from a virus.
Under Dog Premium Member almost 12 years ago
The apple is speaking.
hippogriff almost 12 years ago
It is international: Lakota, Scythians, Turks, only the name is Finnish.
Varnes almost 12 years ago
vwdualnomad, actually there was a purpose for doing that. It’s a very good way to wash your body during freezing winters….Back in the day, with no running hot water, keeping clean was kind of difficult……Kind of a variation of “Save water, shower with a friend..” And make an event of it….It was usually done with the whole family…..Usually, before everybody climbs in, somebody warms up a bucket of water for each person, to wash the sweat away before you jump in the snow….Sometimes they used to swat each other with evergreen bows Don’t have a clue what that was about..