Finnish sense of humor

[Nuuska]

Is Simo HAYA japanese cousin of our Simo HÄYHÄ

 

[Bill Ashton]

Only my wife knows how to access the alternate-character set on our keyboard...however tbe misspelling of his name is embarassingly noted

 

[Nuuska]

Methinks the US keyboard has a two-dot button next to ENTER - on it's left side. Press that first and the A-O-U to get Ä-Ö-Ü

 

[Nuuska]

HORRIBLE NATURE

- NGH
- A mouse!
-
- I've gotten old.

 

[geoguy]

Man . . . you Finns have a decidedly twisted sense of humor.

I admire that in a country.

 

[fronobulax]

Finnish humor is not necessarily the same as the Finnish sense of humor but...

 

[Guildedagain]

 

[JerryR]

Very pretty

 

[Bill Ashton]

Is "Espania" the same as the Landola brand?

 

[Nuuska]

Landola used to have Espania series nylonstring guitars.



Frono - thanks for that joyful picture - there's one thing wrong in it - those are not problems at all.

We have many words with multiple meanings - and also homonyms - here are some.

Haetaan lakkaa satamasta kun lakkaa satamasta
- Let's go get varnish from harbour as soon it stops raining

Rintalasta vietiin sairaalaan rintalasta, jolla oli murtunut rintalasta
- They took a breastfeeding child with broken sternum to hospital from Rintala ( a family name )

Onkiva rovasti on kiva rovasti, koska onki varovasti
- A fishing pastor is a nice pastor, because he was fishing carefully

Veit sen veitsen
- You took that knife

Tuo lipas torille ja tuoli pastorille.
- Bring the box to the marketplace and a chair for the pastor

With these simple and self-explanatory examples I hereby wish all participans joyful happy moments studying Finnish

 

[Neal]

"A fishing pastor is a nice pastor, because he was fishing carefully".

I always like to see my pastor fishing carefully. Only mean pastors fish carelessly.

 

[Bill Ashton]

Sirkku got a good chuckle out of those!

 

[Nuuska]

At the opening seremony of new sports arena it dawned that the new mayor was not the brightest candle.

 

[Nuuska]

Because coffin-factory workers were on strike - Snow White was cremated and the kiss from the prince was too late.

 

[Guildedagain]

 

[Nuuska]

I bought an ultrasonic cleaner ! Got it cheap.

With this we clean valuable jewels and everything.

At night:

 

[Nuuska]

Returning to details in finnish language

 

[Nuuska]

Travelling in USA

We can get gasolin over there.

-

It turned out to be a support group.

 

[Nuuska]

- tap - tap - tap - tap . . . .


- Think about it - in old days people used telephones for talking.
- Strange

- tap - tap - tap - tap . . . .

 

[Nuuska]

A car trip in Europe:

BZ2TZ
.......
SHHHHH

Radio has bad reception . . .