[TheForge] Mastermyr photo question...

Fri Feb 6 16:57:02 2004

Ries,
I just got back from a memorial service for one of my wife's aunts. It was a
large group of Finns.
The definition of a Finnish extrovert was one that looked at your shoes
instead of his own.
Darrell

http://www.machinemaster.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ries Niemi" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Mastermyr photo question...

>
> On Friday, February 6, 2004, at 11:20 AM, Andy Vida wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Ries Niemi wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
>
> 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
>
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