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Posted by: serena ( )
Date: March 16, 2012 01:42PM
Happy St. Urho's day! Wear purple and green and drink wine to honor the Finns!

This is a very un-Mormony holiday. For some fun, look it up. It's along the lines of the stupid seagull miracle, but so much better!

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Posted by: Mia ( )
Date: March 16, 2012 02:36PM
Re: Happy St. Urho's day! Wear purple and green and drink wine to honor the Finns!

That explains Barney!

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Posted by: Calypso ( )
Date: March 16, 2012 02:41PM
Re: Happy St. Urho's day! Wear purple and green and drink wine to honor the Finns!

How did I not know about this holiday?!! I adore Finland...it's one of my absolute favorite places to visit. I have this rule that I will never get married unless I get proposed to at Suomenlinna , off the coast of Helsinki...most beautiful place ever! Anyways, thanks for making me aware of this wonderfully ridiculous day!

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Posted by: ipo ( )
Date: March 16, 2012 02:45PM
Re: Happy St. Urho's day! Wear purple and green and drink wine to honor the Finns!

Thanks for the reminder!

Did you guys know that Finns used to have their very own mythology with gods. great magicians, warriors, wood elves, the lot? And a creation legend.

You can read about them for example in Kalevala, the Finnish national epic poem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevala

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Posted by: forbiddencokedrinker ( )
Date: March 16, 2012 05:12PM
Re: Happy St. Urho's day! Wear purple and green and drink wine to honor the Finns!

But we know none of that was true, because there was no way they had the same good feelings about their belief that we have about ours...

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Posted by: forbiddencokedrinker ( )
Date: March 16, 2012 05:16PM
Re: Happy St. Urho's day! Wear purple and green and drink wine to honor the Finns!

Where do I find purple beer?

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Posted by: archytas ( )
Date: March 16, 2012 07:02PM
Re: Happy St. Urho's day! Wear purple and green and drink wine to honor the Finns!

Kalevala was made into a prog rock epic.

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Posted by: Mittens Romney ( )
Date: March 16, 2012 02:46PM
Re: Happy St. Urho's day! Wear purple and green and drink wine to honor the Finns!

You know what they say - everyones Finnish on St. Urdo's day!

Keep wearing the purple!

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Posted by: Drew90 ( )
Date: March 16, 2012 05:09PM
Re: Happy St. Urho's day! Wear purple and green and drink wine to honor the Finns!

I'll listen to Finlandia. I played the song while in orchestra in high school. I thought it was the coolest song ever. I still think it is. The music for "Be still my soul" was taken from it but I now think of Finland instead of singing that song in church.

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Posted by: helamonster ( )
Date: March 16, 2012 05:25PM
To hell with the Finns.

They still owe me money, the bitches.

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Posted by: Lostmypassword ( )
Date: March 16, 2012 05:26PM
Re: Happy St. Urho's day! Wear purple and green and drink wine to honor the Finns!

An admittedly fabricated legend with no pretense at historical roots! Subjected to changes with no attempt to pretend "it was always like that." Celebrated because it is fun.

I can drink to that. Skol!

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