The phone company was going to hire one team of telephone pole installers, and the boss had to choose between a team of two Norwegian guys and a team of two Canadian guys. So he met with both teams and said: "Here's what we'll do. Each team will be installing poles out on the new road for a day. The team that installs the most phone poles gets the job." Both teams headed right out. At the end of the shift, Ole and Sven, the Norwegian guys, came back and the boss asked them how many they had installed. They said that it was tough going, but they'd put in twelve. Forty-five minutes later, Mark and Wayne, the Canadian guys came in, and they were totally exhausted. The boss asked, "Well, how many poles did you guys install? Wayne, the team leader, wiped his brow and sighed, "Mark and me, we got three in." The boss gasped, "Three? Those two Norwegian guys put in twelve!" "Oh Yah?," said Wayne, " you should see how much they left sticking' out of the ground!"