Stockholm Jokes

Two British sailors attended a church service in Stockholm. Not speaking a word of Swedish and not wishing to appear out of place they sat behind an important looking man and when he stood up or knelt down, they did the same.
At the end of the service, the pastor made what was evidently an announcement, whereupon the man in front of the sailors rose to his feet, and they did likewise - to a roar of laughter from the congregation.
As the sailors left the church, the pastor spoke to them in English, so they asked him the reason for the laughter.
"Oh!" he said, "I mentioned that next Sunday morning there was to be a baptism and would the father of the child please stand up."

Weird News: Minks in the WaterFrom the Daily Collegian:
Stockholm, Sweden - In an embarrassing admission, Defense Ministry analysts say many signals detected by their navy's high-tech buoys - and thought to be foreign submarines - were just the sounds of swimming minks.
The report - coming after the military conceded that an animal set off a weeks-long sub hunt in the Baltic Sea last spring - was leaked to the Dagens Nyheter newspaper and published yesterday.
It said most of the suspicious sounds heard in the islands around Stockholm since the end of the Cold War were minks and other mammals swishing and splashing as they searched for food. Minks, about the size of cats, are plentiful on the islands. They usually feed on the surface, but sometimes dive for crayfish on the bottom.

From the Daily Collegian:
Stockholm, Sweden - In an embarrassing admission, Defense Ministry analysts say many signals detected by their navy's high-tech buoys - and thought to be foreign submarines - were just the sounds of swimming minks.
The report - coming after the military conceded that an animal set off a weeks-long sub hunt in the Baltic Sea last spring - was leaked to the Dagens Nyheter newspaper and published yesterday.
It said most of the suspicious sounds heard in the islands around Stockholm since the end of the Cold War were minks and other mammals swishing and splashing as they searched for food. Minks, about the size of cats, are plentiful on the islands. They usually feed on the surface, but sometimes dive for crayfish on the bottom.