Jacob Haugaard
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About Jacob Haugaard
Daniel Jacob Haugaard (born 12 May 1952 in Tvøroyri on the Faroe Island) is a Danish comedian, actor and politician. He was a member of the Parliament of Denmark from 1994–1998. He ran without a party, and still got 23,253 votes, enough for a seat.
Haugaard ran for every election as a joke from 1979 onwards until he won in 1994. After his term expired, he decided not to seek re-election. Among his outrageous campaign promises were: 8 hours of free time, 8 hours of rest and 8 hours of sleep, more tailwind on bicycle paths, promises of better weather, right to impotency, Nutella in field rations (was actually implemented) and shorter queues in supermarkets.
Asylum rated his win in the Parliamentary election the 11th greatest prank of all time.
[edit] References
^ "Jacob Haugaard" (in Danish). CMC. http://www.cmc.dk/artist.php4?id=43. Retrieved 14 July 2009.
^ "Jacob Haugaard" (in Danish). Folketinget. http://www.ft.dk/BAGGRUND/Biografier/Jacob_Haugaard.htm. Retrieved 14 July 2009.
^ "Løsgængeren Jacob Haugaard" (in Danish). Jakob Nørgaard-Petersen, stud.scient.pol., Aarhus Universitet. http://samfnu.systime.dk/fileadmin/filer/Tekster/Emne5/c_jnp_haugaard_02.pdf. Retrieved 2010-03-27.
^ a b "The Greatest Pranks of All Time". Asylum.com. http://www.asylum.com/2009/04/01/the-greatest-pranks-of-all-time/?icid=aimDBDL2_link2-a. Retrieved 2010-09-23.
[edit] External links
Jacob Haugaard at the Internet Movie Database
Asylum
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