Norwegian volunteer fire fighters joke

One dark night outside a small town in Minnesota, a fire started inside the local chemical plant and in a blink of an eye it exploded into massive flames. The alarm went out to all the fire departments for miles around. When the volunteer fire fighters appeared on the scene, the chemical company president rushed to the fire chief and said, "All our secret formulas are in the vault in the center of the plant. They must be saved. I will give $50,000 to the fire department that brings them out intact." But the roaring flames held the firefighters off.

Soon more fire departments had to be called in as the situation became desperate. As the firemen arrived, the president shouted out that the offer was now $100,000 to the fire department who could bring out the company's secret files.

From the distance, a lone siren was heard as another fire truck came into sight. It was then earby Norwegian rural township volunteer fire company composed mainly of Norwegians over the age of 65. To everyone's amazement, that little run-down fire engine roared right past all the newer sleek engines that were parked outside the plant. Without even slowing down it drove straight into the middle of the inferno. Outside, the other firemen watched as the Norwegian old timers jumped off right in the middle of the fire fought it back on all sides. It was a performance and effort never seen before.

Within a short time, the Norske old timers had extinguished the fire and had saved the secret formulas. The grateful chemical company president announced that for such a superhuman feat he was upping the reward to $200,000, and walked over to personally thank each of the brave fire fighters.

The local TV news reporter rushed in to capture the event on film, asking their chief, "What are you going to do with all that money?"

"Vell," said Ole Larsen, the 70-year-old fire chief, "Da first ting ve gonna do is fix da brakes on dat focking truck!

(Grin) Nice one

Do you know the one about the Norwegian WWII air force veteran?

Made me LOL

One fine day in the 40s an elementary school has Capt. Ole Larsen, a veteran of the US Army Air Corps, give a talk to the students. Eventually he recounts a battle where he shot down to German fighters. At one point he says "then this focker got behind me and started to shoot," whereupon the students begin to titter. Later on Capt. Larsen says "but I got off the other focker's wing," making the student body dissolve in laughter.

The principal interrupts to interject "Children, please! Captain Larsen is talking about planes he faced off against. They were a brand called Fokker. Isn't that right, captain?"

"Vell," Capt. Larsen says, "these fockers were flying Messerschmitts."

Quote: Nareed

The principal interrupts to interject "Children, please! Captain Larsen is talking about planes he faced off against. They were a brand called Fokker. Isn't that right, captain?"

Nareed's joke is actually more historically accurate

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Nareed's joke is actually more historically accurate

What's hilarious is that a school principal thinks the nazis would use a Dutch aircraft in war.

No clue whether a single Fokker was shot down in WWII, or whether even Fokker ever made a fighter.

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No clue whether a single Fokker was shot down in WWII, or whether even Fokker ever made a fighter.

AFAIK they were light bomber aircraft, but only really used as fighters by the Swiss. The Swiss had 24 aircraft were in service from 1933 to 1940 and were armed with bombs, two pilot machine guns and a double machine gun for the observer.

When the Germans invaded Norway on 9 April 1940, 42 Fokker C.Vs were still in Norwegian service. The C.Vs were based on several air bases in different parts of the country and mostly saw service as reconnaissance aircraft and light bomber. Although the planes were outdated, they still saw extensive and successful service in the bomber role during the April–June 1940 Norwegian Campaign, supporting Norwegian ground troops fighting on the Narvik front.

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AFAIK they were light bomber aircraft, but only really used as fighters by the Swiss.

Thanks. I didn't know that.

The early days of aviation were chaotic and companies rose and fell all the time, just like the first days of cars...

Even today, some companies specialize in military aircraft. Few people would guess the world's most popular single-seat fighter jet was made by something called General Dynamics, for example.