Edvard Munch had emotional problems; while he was strolling through the nippy boulevards of Oslo, Norweigan Ladies would approach and say:
"Oh my, Edvard your penis, it's enormous.”
“Don't worry about that luv.” Edvard would reply, “consider my paintings, they are very emotional”.
“But Edward, your member, it is like a Norwegian pine” the Ladies insisted.
This made Edvard very sad and so he booked himself into an asylum. After his death Edvard's felled pine tree was thrown into a Fjord where it lays on the lake-bed to this day.
His pine cones were donated to the Swedish royal family who use them as badminton balls; when they play badminton with visiting foreign diplomats, Munch's feathered pine cones serve as a conversation piece:
“Did you know that this badminton ball belonged to the painter Edvard Munch? He was very emotional you know".
