Old Finnish joke
Sep. 22nd, 2007 09:21 pmEarly in 1992, I was first introduced to mobile phones and the Finnish language. Even back then, the Finns who were using the NMT standard even before the invention of GSM, had mobile phones when the rest of Europe was just discovering them, so the 'käkätimet' were a Finnish phenomenon for me.
After starting to learn Finnish, the first joke I ever got in that language was a simple one-picture cartoon of two blokes walking twoards each other along a brick wall, talking into their käkätimet, and the one is saying, "Sorry, I've got to go, I'm just running into you." That wasn't just my first Finnish joke, it is a very typically Finnish joke as well.
Today, that joke is alive and well in Morningstar Manor, and I giggled my head off when I just encountered it on an NPC tag from
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After starting to learn Finnish, the first joke I ever got in that language was a simple one-picture cartoon of two blokes walking twoards each other along a brick wall, talking into their käkätimet, and the one is saying, "Sorry, I've got to go, I'm just running into you." That wasn't just my first Finnish joke, it is a very typically Finnish joke as well.
Today, that joke is alive and well in Morningstar Manor, and I giggled my head off when I just encountered it on an NPC tag from
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