Progress and Cheese

In keeping with my previous statement of attempting to be more consistent with my blogging and in an effort to make this thing even more ridiculous and spectacular, I realize I am going to need to add some more interesting crap.

 So I am going to attempt to do some reviews, bring in more Gentelman Shark and things of that nature, and find as many odd things as I can to relate to you. And it begins right now.

                 STOP THE PRESSES!! 

               NORWAY CHEESE FIRE SHUTS DOWN ROAD TUNNEL

OSLO, Norway (AP) - A road tunnel in Norway will be shut for several weeks after a 27-ton truckload of sweet goats milk cheese caught fire.

Regional traffic department chief Geir Jorgensen says flames engulfed the tunnel last week and gases from the melting, brown load hindered firefighters. It took four days to put it out.

The driver was not hurt and no other vehicles were in the 3.6-kilometer (2.2-mile) tunnel at the time.

Joergensen said Wednesday that the tunnel near the small Arctic municipality of Tysfjord, some 1,350 kilometers (840 miles) north of the capital, Oslo, likely will be closed for two more weeks.

Goat's milk cheese, a sweet delicacy with a high sugar and fat content, is an essential part of many Norwegians' daily diet.


  Now, I'm not sure which part of this story is funnier. The fact that these poor rural Norwegians will have to smell burnt cheese in that tunnel for years to come or that the person who reported this for AP actually used the phrase "gases from the melting, brown load hindered firefighters."