Fingerpori double-takes pt II

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Re: Fingerpori double-takes pt II

Post by sammy » Fri Sep 10, 2010 3:05 pm

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This might even work in English...



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Re: Fingerpori double-takes pt II

Post by ajdias » Thu Oct 14, 2010 5:14 pm

Easy one...

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Re: Fingerpori double-takes pt II

Post by sammy » Thu Oct 14, 2010 10:17 pm

...I suppose this isn't too difficult either

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Re: Fingerpori double-takes pt II

Post by Jukka Aho » Fri Oct 15, 2010 11:40 am

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Re: Fingerpori double-takes pt II

Post by Rob A. » Sat Oct 16, 2010 2:41 am

I'm having a bit of trouble with the word, Menetkös..... I think it means, "Are you sure you are going?".... but I don't really get the joke...and why is he throwing his slipper.... :?

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Re: Fingerpori double-takes pt II

Post by Jukka Aho » Sat Oct 16, 2010 3:33 am

Rob A. wrote:I'm having a bit of trouble with the word, Menetkös..... I think it means, "Are you sure you are going?"
That’s what it nominally means, yes... but when said with an angry tone of voice it’s no longer a question. The meaning morphs into something like: “Now buzz off / get lost, will you!(?)”

Menetkös siitä! is a common idiom. (siitä = “from there”, “from the position/location where you’re currently standing”)
Rob A. wrote:but I don't really get the joke...and why is he throwing his slipper.... :?
“Drive somebody home” (in your car or something) vs “drive somebody off/away and back to their home”.
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Re: Fingerpori double-takes pt II

Post by Pursuivant » Sat Oct 16, 2010 11:15 am

The joke is the dual etendre of the word "drive"...in English would be "I can give you a lift" and the last picture the old guy carrying him.
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Re: Fingerpori double-takes pt II

Post by sammy » Wed Oct 20, 2010 2:48 pm

Today's comic was a bit trickier :lol:

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Re: Fingerpori double-takes pt II

Post by ajdias » Wed Oct 20, 2010 4:37 pm

Niissä => Rushdie ? :)

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Post by Pursuivant » Wed Oct 20, 2010 4:59 pm

säe => säkeissä
säkki => säkeissä

Rushdie's... satanic bags... ummm... Rivo-Riittas jugs.. erm... melons... umm... :oops:

Got the picture?
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Re: Fingerpori double-takes pt II

Post by Upphew » Wed Oct 20, 2010 5:05 pm

ajdias wrote:Niissä => Rushdie ? :)
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Re: Fingerpori double-takes pt II

Post by Jukka Aho » Wed Oct 20, 2010 5:10 pm

Pursuivant wrote:säe => säkeissä
säkki => säkeissä

... satanic bags... ummm... Rivo-Riittas jugs.. erm... melons... umm... :oops:
säkki = “sack”... rather than “bag”

saatanallinen = literally “satanic” but the word can also be used for (rude) emphasis... in which case it could mean something like “humongous”, “unwieldy”, “outrageous”, depending on the subject matter. Compare to helvetillinen, “hellish” or jumalaton, “godless”, which are often used the same way.
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Re: Fingerpori double-takes pt II

Post by sammy » Thu Oct 21, 2010 10:16 am

Jukka Aho wrote:saatanallinen = literally “satanic” but the word can also be used for (rude) emphasis... in which case it could mean something like “humongous”, “unwieldy”, “outrageous”, depending on the subject matter. Compare to helvetillinen, “hellish” or jumalaton, “godless”, which are often used the same way.
Shades of Buster Gonad and his unfeasibly large testicles there... :lol:

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Re: Fingerpori double-takes pt II

Post by Upphew » Fri Oct 22, 2010 6:42 pm

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Re: Fingerpori double-takes pt II

Post by sammy » Fri Nov 05, 2010 1:23 pm

*speechless*

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