Day 160 - 161 - Funk Tur

The folks at Novo took me and the rest of my function group on a trip across Denmark, eventually settling in Rømø for the night. On the way, we stopped near my boss's hometown on Fyn to enjoy the Ugly Duck Brewing Company. View the spoils.

When you take a nearly-six-hour bus trip across Denmark, you need things to pass the time. Thing one. Watch a video created on a previous Funk Tur to Sweden several years ago. Imagine Danes making music video interpretations of songs by "latin" artists. Songs like this, and this, and even this. And now imagine that you will watch all of them in their hilarious painful Danish glory followed by the awards / presentation / show where several winners (of several different categories!) are chosen. There were six entries and, if I can remember it correctly, at least three different categories. Somewhere the unintentional comedy scale was broken.

I think that I learned more about the Danes during this period than any other in Denmark.

Thing two. In groups, make a parody song about our trip and our function based on the tune of this popular Danish song.



Midi does hammer hammer fedt complete and total justice.

In the evening we had dinner. After dinner there was a local band.

They later played hammer hammer fedt in all of its glory with all of the verses that "we" had written. We sang along.

Thing number three. Apparently, unbeknownst to me, Danes totally love Country Roads by John Denver. Somewhere in Los Angeles, Vining is nodding with approval.

It was the second song played. When it started, everyone got in a sort of chicken-dance-line that didn't involve dancing. It involved grasping shoulders, running very fast in a circle / ellipse, and changing directions to make people fall off. Like some sort of game of dance-snake. To John Denver. Funk tur indeed.