[TheForge] Mastermyr photo question...

[Ries Niemi]

On Friday, February 6, 2004, at 11:20 AM, Andy Vida wrote:

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> Ries Niemi wrote:
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>> Besides the neutral white background shots, maybe then you could dress
>> up like a viking and hold the various objects in your teeth, to better
>> personify the way any tool can be used to conquer, rape and pillage,
>> particularly if some dainty british isles are nearby just begging to 
>> be
>> taken.
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> 	Believe it or not, I've been sitting here wondering who'd be
> 	the first to suggest I get dressed like a Viking.  Figgers
> 	it'd be you.
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Thats because my drunken Finn ancestors ate vikings for breakfast.
That was after drinking their first breakfast, roasting themselves in a 
steam autoclave, beating themselves with branches, and diving naked 
into snowbanks.
One of my favorite descriptions of the character of Finns is in Neal 
Stephenson's book Cryptonomicon- also one of the best books I have read 
in the last few years.
When Bobby Shaftoe is stranded in Sweden for six months with a Finnish 
girlfriend, there is a page or so description of the Finnish national 
attributes, ending with the fact that they naturally had to invent 
their own submachine gun, as no other countries product could be 
trusted to be lethal, reliable, and available enough.
Plus it makes a different sound, so you can tell by sound who to shoot 
at.

ries