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Endangered Specie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 10:09 PM
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Finns urged to retaliate over Berlusconi gaffe
(looks like Berlusconi has been taking lessons from W on how to unite not divide :sarcasm:)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050624/od_nm/italy_farmers_dc;_ylt=AkVCAUGZJBv7K4A14jE_2ZftiBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

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HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finns should boycott Italian produce after Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi insulted both their cuisine and their president this week, farming officials said Friday.

Representatives of Finland's union of agricultural producers (MTK) said they would avoid products such as Italian olive oil and wine after Berlusconi said he'd had to "endure" Finnish food and said Italian ham was better than Finnish herrings.

He made the comments when he inaugurated the European Food Safety Agency in Parma, and compounded the damage by saying he had used all his "playboy tactics" to persuade President Tarja Halonen to give up her country's claim to host the agency.
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Oversea Visitor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 10:12 PM
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1. Woah talk about a dumbo
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 10:14 PM
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2. Sounds like berlusconi
is taking insulting lessons from karl rove himself.

Way to start a cuisine war..too bad Finns have to suffer without Italian Olive Oil just because silvio has such a vile mouth.
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FightingIrish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 10:19 PM
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3. Il Douche Does it Again
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