Conan hates my homeland A-J

Sapper-FIN · Post by **Sapper-FIN** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 9:27 pm

Man, that conan must have lot of enemies

Allright, i deleted the list, i case someone finds it offensive

I still cant figure out what Conan meant this thing about finland

You've had over 5,000 years of culture, and the world's most famous Finn is still Huckleberry.

Post by **:FI:Mefisto** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 10:18 pm

hmmm... just offensive, not that funny

you have postcards with tires?

Sapper-FIN · Post by **Sapper-FIN** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 1:02 am

hmmm... just offensive, not that funny

Well, i dont find it offensive, just a little bit provocative... i mean, i´m not gonna lose my sleep, over what he said about finland

you have postcards with tires?

Hmmm, apparently we have

we have 3 types of postcards;

1) One with a tyre in it.
2) one with a snowy scenery
3) Well, that was it... But i´m sure that pretty soon we´ll come up with an idea to make a postcard with a nokia mobilephone in it

:FI:Snaphoo · Post by **:FI:Snaphoo** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 1:20 pm

You've had over 5,000 years of culture, and the world's most famous Finn is still Huckleberry.

Huckleberry Finn, the famous Mark Twain character. I think most of that list was a jab at the ignorance of the American people, rather than something offensive to the rest of the world. As, if it's the Conan I'm thinking of, he seems to jab at the ignorance of the American populace more often than not.

Sapper-FIN · Post by **Sapper-FIN** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 2:05 pm

Huckeleberry Finn, of course

Post by **:FI:Mefisto** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 4:42 pm

well, i belive i saw Polish postcard with tire, but by Boomerang cards - part of some marketing

well, the stupidity of this text is offensive, statments without even slightest research within the topic,
it is not against You or posting it anywhere, hope it was not deleted because of me, posting is just registering it here for "future generations" and should be done...

I am just against "producing" such things

calling all Finns stupid... I haven't met stupid Finn yet

I belive there are some though like everywhere, but still

such a jolly country like Czech Republic is described as depressive...

making fun of developing countries and their problems like disasters... is it funny to make fun of New Orleans now?

what is sad that this way some new stereotypes are introduced,

maybe this is the only way to teach "americans" they are not alone in this world...

:FI:Fenian · Post by **:FI:Fenian** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 6:13 pm

Well, I know a Finn at work who's a bit silly... but a nice guy...

And which Conan published the list - Conan the Barbarian?

And remember the other great Finn in history?

Finn McCool

Anyway... found this on the Net....

http://virtual.finland.fi/People/famous_finns.asp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

And you guys make GREAT Rally drivers!!!!!

:FI:Murph · Post by **:FI:Murph** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:04 pm

And here I was thinking that Sibelius was the most famous Finn- dumb Yank!

Sapper-FIN · Post by **Sapper-FIN** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:54 pm

Wow, i didn´t know we have so many famous persons

arne_and · Post by **arne_and** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 9:04 pm

I have a friend who collects Conan magazines.... Obey, woman!

:FI:WillieOFS · Post by **:FI:WillieOFS** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 10:35 pm

Let us NOT forget that the Finn's created the LAHTI. AWESOME piece of machinery.

As for gonad O'Brian? He's just anudder "Holier than thou" Hollywood punk lookin for the ratings.

T'ELL wid 'im!!

:FI:Falcon · Post by **:FI:Falcon** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 11:08 pm

most famous Ameri-fin ...

Fal "vroom!" con

:FI:Igor · Post by **:FI:Igor** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 1:01 am

Who's Conan?

Most Americans don't know much about Finland, except that its up north and cold, and they held off the entire freaking soviet army sixty years ago.

They made really good weather equipment and cell phones. I didn't know Huckleberry Finn was from Finland; i thought he was from Missouri.

Igor da Weather Maintenace guy.

:FI:Igor · Post by **:FI:Igor** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 1:12 am

Oh...Conan O'Brian......?

I concur with Shaphoo's comments. Apparently Conehead wasn't trying to make jest of Finland, but of most Americans' lack of knowledge of Finland.

Igor

:FI:Heloego · Post by **:FI:Heloego** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 4:35 am

before his show was as a writer for SNL.

And that was during SNL's worst years!

I honestly have tried to complete watching an episode of his show, and have never made it through.
Maybe it's because I'm an older fart, but I never have found him funny.

Conan hates my homeland A-J

Conan hates my homeland A-J

Hmmm..

Conan O'Brien's big claim to fame...