What does "omituinen hopottaja" means?

robinovic · Post by **robinovic** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 10:34 pm

Can some one tell me what "omituinen hopottaja" means. I want to know this becaus i got a t-shirt from my dad with this text and he wouldn't tell me what that means

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enk · Post by **enk** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 10:48 pm

Omituinen höpöttäjä means strange babbler. Nice shirt

At least he didn't buy you this one

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-enk

robinovic · Post by **robinovic** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:31 am

What does that t-shirt mean ?

What exactly do you mean with babbler?

enk · Post by **enk** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:49 am

robinovic wrote:What does that t-shirt mean ?

What exactly do you mean with babbler?

The other t-shirt says "I hear voices."
And babbler, like someone who just goes on and on, but doesn't
really say anything. Like me

-enk

mrjimsfc · Post by **mrjimsfc** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 3:56 am

In American English, Omituinen höpöttäjä translates most nearly to "Motor Mouth".

sammy · Post by **sammy** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 8:56 am

robinovic wrote:Can some one tell me what "omituinen hopottaja" means. I want to know this becaus i got a t-shirt from my dad with this text and he wouldn't tell me what that means

The phrase comes from a Finnish comedy series years back, with Pirkka-Pekka Petelius et al.

There was a guy who talked incessantly, more or less inane babbling really... "mutta epäilemättä kuitenkin toisaalta voisi ajatella että..." He'd go on and on, for example in a library, and then when someone got tired of him and shouted "SHUT UP"... then he'd act really surprised and said his catch phrase... "omituinen höpöttäjä!"... referring, of course, to the person who'd only said "shut up"...

Not in the league of immortal comedy geniuses, but the catch phrase still occasionally surfaces it seems!

enk · Post by **enk** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 9:07 am

mrjimsfc wrote:In American English, Omituinen höpöttäjä translates most nearly to "Motor Mouth".

How could I forget that lovely word

sammy: no wonder I didn't recognize the phrase from anywhere, I don't
watch tv regularly

-enk

sammy · Post by **sammy** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 9:19 am

enk wrote:sammy: no wonder I didn't recognize the phrase from anywhere, I don't
watch tv regularly

Neither do I

but somehow I just happened to remember that... it must be more than ten years ago actually when that particular show was on... you could not really avoid the characters, even without a telly! You wouldn't happen to remember James Potkukelkka who stumbled, hand first, onto the screen accompanied by the National Emblem march?

Incidentally, the term "motor mouth" has been borrowed into Finnish as well... one can say "moottoriturpa" and most people will understand

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