{"id":180093,"date":"2017-07-21T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/21\/the-swedes-are-the-greatest-people-on-the-face-of-the-earth\/"},"modified":"2017-07-21T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T22:20:00","slug":"the-swedes-are-the-greatest-people-on-the-face-of-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/21\/the-swedes-are-the-greatest-people-on-the-face-of-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Swedes are the Greatest People on the Face of the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish passenger operator MTR Express opened up a new line between Stockholm and Gothenburg, and they held an online contest to name it, the obvious happened, but unlike the killjoys at the  Natural Environment Research Council, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/jul\/20\/swedish-rail-firm-approves-trainy-mctrainface-as-newest-member-of-its-fleet\">they decided to name the line Trainy McTrainface<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A Swedish rail operator has vowed to name one of its trains Trainy McTrainface <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/jul\/19\/trainy-mctrainface-boaty-mcboatface-legacy-lives-on-in-swedish-train\">after a public vote<\/a>, saying it would bring joy to people disappointed when Britain rejected the name Boaty McBoatface for a polar research ship following a similar poll. <\/p>\n<p>Trainy McTrainface won 49% of the votes in the naming competition, conducted online by train operator MTR Express and Swedish newspaper Metro, beating choices such as Hakan, Miriam and Poseidon. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c[This is] news that will be received with joy by many, not just in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/sweden\">Sweden<\/a>,\u201d MTR wrote in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>The train will run between the Swedish capital Stockholm and Gothenburg, the country\u2019s second-biggest city. <\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">MTR said another train had been voted to be named \u201cGlenn\u201d, an apparent tribute to an IFK Gothenburg soccer team of the 1980s that featured four players of that name \u2013 uncommon in Sweden \u2013 including Glenn Hysen, who later captained Liverpool.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is so cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish passenger operator MTR Express opened up a new line between Stockholm and Gothenburg, and they held an online contest to name it, the obvious happened, but unlike the killjoys at the Natural Environment Research Council, they decided to name the line Trainy McTrainface: A Swedish rail operator has vowed to name one of its &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[423,371,386,515,532,755,471,584],"class_list":["post-180093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-40yrs","tag-europe","tag-humor","tag-language","tag-polls","tag-rail","tag-transportation","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}