[Kurt_Hectic]

*gets in line to congratulate*

[Kurt_Hectic]

More info: the wonderful device is produced in Hamburg to a cost of 1,4 million kroner, it was transported to norway by a mr. Tore Knapkøyen, who was wery proud of his mission, according to the Oslo-newspaper Aftenposten. The paper also reports that spectators have travelled as far as from Elverum (70 kilometer) to witness the ascalator with their own eyes.

[6SJ7]

And a member of the Trysil history club puts it on the par with the first time anybody there ate a potato.

Sounds like a town that could use a little entertainment.

[DainBramage]

"It reminds me of the time the American young man was here with the box of ribbed condoms" remarked Bridgette Nordsomjausengoodenfeelun

[dagnabbit]

Does the village require Israelis to take the stairs?

[LIConFem]

Wow, quite an achievement!! Just wait 'til these folks discover sliced bread! There'll be dancing in the streets!

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Riding the newfangled contraption will join the watching-paint-drying-contest as one of the town's great social events.

[beaver fever]

Before everyone gets in line to slag the Norwegians let me remind you that a three man team of Norwegian saboteurs took out the German heavy water plant in Sweden.

Two of the saboteurs were killed and the third escaped an and skiied 300 km back to Norway and died in his eighties.

They killed 19 or some odd Germans during the operation.

Source: "The Man Called Intrepid" by Stevenson

[HiTech RedNeck]

A 50 foot long escalator. Stairway to heaven?