Sweden holding onto its pricks
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Sweden’s Infrastructure Minister Åsa Torstensson had a rude moment at a recent traffic safety conference:
Yes Sweden will absolutely keep the prick system. The prick system has been working very well in Sweden.
The “pricks” to which the minister refers are perhaps better rendered as “points”, as in the sort of points added to the driving licence of a traffic offender.
(Via: Paul Lindquist)
But Torstensson made the classic error, most famously illustrated by the – possibly fictitious – instance of a Swede explaining how to spell a colleague’s name.
His name is Öberg, a zero with two pricks.
November 18th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
I often hold on to my prick as well. Especially when I need to pee.
November 26th, 2008 at 10:49 am
it’s important to always know where your prick is. keep it close to hand if you will.