Fun test of your creative Finnish skills

[sammy]

Here's a fun way to waste time with the Finnish language (courtesy of an old Pahkasika magazine)

Try and invent more sentences like this:

Kapteeni alkoi hytistä.

The idea, of course, is to have a double meaning with the word alkoi, "started to do something / started from something" (In the example, The captain started to shiver / The captain started from a cabin)

[Hank W.]

Etupäässä myydään junalippuja takapäässä.

[nirva]

Etupäässä myydään junalippuja takapäässä.

I think "Takapäässä myydään etupäässä junalippuja" sounds better.

"Arja alkoi korista"
"Puuro alkoi porista"

[Hank W.]

Maalari kittasi oluen.
Kurki tiiraa, sanoi lintubongari.
Kanadalainen ei päässyt ylös eikä alaskaan.
Vangilla oli karatessa musta vyö.
Norsunluun salakauppias sai kärsiä.
Metsästäjän lounas oli hirveä.

double effort:
Etsivät etsivät aitoja aitoja kepeillä kepeillä.

a bit longer ones:
Polttomoottori on erinomainen keksintö, esimerkkinä käyköön tämä auto.
Black metal -artisti esitteli näytenauhaansa: Minun demoni!!
Kaksi viisisatasta paloi. Jäljelle jäi vain tuhat.
Matelija nimettiin minun mukaani. Kaimaani metsästettiin.
Mies palaa. Hän tuli muttei jää.
Palomiesten juhlassa oltiin koristeltu ruiskukin.
Parasiittien käytössäännöt ovat loistavat.
Sirkuskulkue kolaroi: Osa pelleistä meni lyttyyn.
Mistä johtuu, että seksiä harrastetaan useimmiten kännissä? Olisi kiva saada selvää.

Impotentin mieliruoka: Seisoppa!

[otyikondo]

Some years ago, there was a rather amusing sketch on Alivaltiosihteeri (I think), featuring the Ehrnrooth clan.

There was Georg C. Ehrnrooth, the well-known right-wing conservative MP and Kekkonen-baiter, and his various brothers and sisters, including the WC-magnate Porisee Ehrnrooth, his constantly whining spoilt American wife Kitisee Ehrnrooth, the Antarctic researcher Kalisee Ehrnrooth, the eminent dermatologist and dandruff specialist Varisee Ehrnrooth, the long-serving National Theatre prompter Supisee Ehrnrooth, and countless more that you can make up yourselves...

[sammy]

Some years ago, there was a rather amusing sketch on Alivaltiosihteeri (I think), featuring the Ehrnrooth clan...

Hadn't heard that one, pretty good - sounds like Alivaltiosihteeri (it does not cease to amaze me how those guys still occasionally hit a fresh laughter nerve although they've been going for so long... incidentally, I believe they were somehow involved in the Pahkasika magazine long before their fame)

Anyway here's one more to the original formula...

Vauva alkoi tutista.

[sammy]

There was Georg C. Ehrnrooth, the well-known right-wing conservative MP and Kekkonen-baiter, and his various brothers and sisters, including the WC-magnate Porisee Ehrnrooth, his constantly whining spoilt American wife Kitisee Ehrnrooth, the Antarctic researcher Kalisee Ehrnrooth, the eminent dermatologist and dandruff specialist Varisee Ehrnrooth, the long-serving National Theatre prompter Supisee Ehrnrooth, and countless more that you can make up yourselves...

At least these could be added into the family tree: the valiant sharp-shooter, riddled by his persistent skin disease, Kuti C. Ehrnrooth... and his hoarse-voiced young wife who was, in her time, famous for her basket-weaving skills - Kori C. Ehrnrooth...

[Hank W.]

With the flatulent cousin that ran off with the circus and made fame as a petomane; Hai C Äänruut...

[sammy]

"Puuro alkoi porista"

Dingo alkoi Porista would perhaps be more fitting?

[otyikondo]

There was Georg C. Ehrnrooth, the well-known right-wing conservative MP and Kekkonen-baiter, and his various brothers and sisters, including the WC-magnate Porisee Ehrnrooth, his constantly whining spoilt American wife Kitisee Ehrnrooth, the Antarctic researcher Kalisee Ehrnrooth, the eminent dermatologist and dandruff specialist Varisee Ehrnrooth, the long-serving National Theatre prompter Supisee Ehrnrooth, and countless more that you can make up yourselves...

At least these could be added into the family tree: the valiant sharp-shooter, riddled by his persistent skin disease, Kuti C. Ehrnrooth... and his hoarse-voiced young wife who was, in her time, famous for her basket-weaving skills - Kori C. Ehrnrooth...

They never talk about him much, but it is said that the black sheep of the family can be found most nights in a cheap juottola in Kallio. His name is Öri C. Ehrnrooth. He has a derelict cousin, too, who used to be a high-flyer with a merchant bank until he lost his marbles over a currency deal gone bad, back in the late '80s. I think he's called Jupi C. Ehrnrooth.

[sammy]

He has a derelict cousin, too, who used to be a high-flyer with a merchant bank until he lost his marbles over a currency deal gone bad, back in the late '80s. I think he's called Jupi C. Ehrnrooth.

Hmm... was he the one who was slightly analphabetic? Incidentally, his uncle, who took up beekeeping after the demise of his wife, was called Suri C. Ehrnrooth.

[otyikondo]

He has a derelict cousin, too, who used to be a high-flyer with a merchant bank until he lost his marbles over a currency deal gone bad, back in the late '80s. I think he's called Jupi C. Ehrnrooth.

Hmm... was he the one who was slightly analphabetic? Incidentally, his uncle, who took up beekeeping after the demise of his wife, was called Suri C. Ehrnrooth.

Oh.. the wife. A tragic tale, that. She ran off with one of Santa's oversexed little helpers, a chap named Billy Goat, and she died in a level crossing accident near Korvatunturi, did poor Kili C. Ehrnrooth.

If you go to London and the headquarters of the Royal Association of Ophthalmic Opticians, you can see a plaque to one of the best-known and decorated international Ehrnrooths, Sir I. C. Ehrnrooth. And in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, of course every schoolchild knows who Boden C. Ehrnrooth was.

Knighthoods and landmarks are all very well, but ultimately few here at home would contest the significance for Finnish life of the man they call "the Great Engineer of the Outhouse" and "the Genius of the Crapathians", Puu C. Ehrnrooth.

[enk]

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-enk