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To: blam

My father used to tell me that a Finn was just a Swede with his brains beat out. He would only tell me that in the presence of his Finnish brother-in-law so I’m assuming there is more chain-jerking than truth in the statement.


19 posted on 09/26/2007 11:10:36 AM PDT by CommerceComet
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To: CommerceComet
"My father used to tell me that a Finn was just a Swede with his brains beat out. He would only tell me that in the presence of his Finnish brother-in-law so I’m assuming there is more chain-jerking than truth in the statement."

A number of Swedish businessmen have told me that every project team or work group in Sweden must include at least one Finn - otherwise everyone else would fall asleep.

Negotiating with them certainly seemed to support that theory - I'll trade four Swedes and your choice of Swiss for a single Finn.
(Price reduced from seven to four and no one who'd actually experienced the Swiss would want even one - so that part of the deal is just decoration.)

56 posted on 09/26/2007 4:17:11 PM PDT by norton
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