The Velveteen Ocelot
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Tue Mar-16-10 10:27 PM
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Today is St. Urho's Day -- the guy who drove the grasshoppers out of Finland. |
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It's a much trickier feat to manage grasshoppers than snakes. St. Patrick has nothing on St. Urho.
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Dr. Strange
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Tue Mar-16-10 10:42 PM
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They were cookies. He ate all the grasshopper cookies in Finland.
And the Finlanderonians were not at all happy about it.
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Tue Mar-16-10 11:02 PM
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2. I thought he drank all the Grasshoppers in Finland. |
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Damned Creme de Menthe. (Urp)
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Tue Mar-16-10 11:04 PM
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The Velveteen Ocelot
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Tue Mar-16-10 11:09 PM
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4. Actually, yes. The Finns had a sort of bagpipe called Säkkipilli. |
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It's probably what St. Urho used to scare the grasshoppers away.
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