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A few weeks ago, Conan O'Brien started a "Conan O'Brien Hates My
Homeland" postcard campaign by asking people from around the world to
send him postcards. Apparently, Finland was the first to
send a card with a mildly profane greeting on it. :) Apparently,
many other Finns have followed suit and the show airing tonight on
SubTV should be fairly amusing for those of us here. Someone has a rather large [31mb] mpeg of the segment where he admits
that Finland is his core audience and, to offer succor to his insulted
fans, tells the world that Sweden does, in fact, suck. Now, I don't
know that I have enough motivation to get Conan's head put on a stamp
from the Suomen Posti as the earlier web page suggests, but what about
sending Conan a postcard per week until he relents and promises to
come do a show in Helsinki for a week like they did in Canada?! Maybe
we can beg the Finnish Consulate, Finnish expats and other friends we
have in NYC to go see the show and sing the "Finland, Finland,
Finland" song until he agrees. It probably won't happen, but it sure
would be fun to get him to do a show here. Think of all the things he
could do: take a sauna, eat makkara, make fun of drunks on the trams
and subway, attempt ordering coffee and korvapusti in Finnish, bring
some Budweiser along and finally determine if Lapin Kulta is even more
of a king of bad beer than Bud is, try salmiakki, wear something
Marimekko, visit Santa, and sail to Stockholm to personally deliver
the message that Sweden does, indeed, suck. :)
Finland, expats too, grab your pens, postage and postikorttit and
direct your witty goading to:
Conan O'Brien hates my homeland Must Come To
Finland
NBC
30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA
New York, NY 10112
USA
Extra bonus points for those who can communicate to him in his native
dialect, Masshole Townese. Tell
him we have wicked good Dunkin Donuts in Finland and massively large
packies but that we gotta go to Talinn, our equivalent to New
Hampshire, for cheap stuff. His family lives in Belmont, just over the
road from where I used to live so he's still a townie. :)
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condition of anonymity, said the hiring will be announced at a news
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Link
(Thanks, Eric!)
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