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From: gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith)
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Subject: Re: Finnish National Masochism and Heavy Metal Fandom--a correlation?
Message-ID: <1990Jan17.021156.5771@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 17 Jan 90 02:11:56 GMT
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In-reply-to: crusader@kannel.lut.fi (Mikko Hy|kki)

In article <1208@kannel.lut.fi>, crusader@kannel (Mikko Hy|kki) writes:

>We Finns have bathed in sauna for about 2000 years.

  If you see a pasty mass of wrinkles diving into a bank of
snow--that's a Finn who's *finally* gotten out of the sauna.

>We don't use sticks, but small branches with leaves still in them
>tied together.

  Well, OK. I guess it's not strange to beat yourself with a
tree.  Do you listen to heavy metal while you do it?

>And hey, are you sure that your forefathers weren't Finns??

  My forefathers were Swedes. We used to keep Finns as pets.

>You see, we Finns have a short fuse.

  No wonder you stay in the sauna all the time. "Oh no! Someone
lit the Finn! Everybody duck!"
--
ucbvax!garnet!gsmith    Gene Ward Smith/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720
"Without NNTP, the brahms gang itself would be impossible" Erik E. Fair