The Corner Blog Archives: May 2006
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31 May 2006
It keeps going and going…
The hurdling around the Lordi-pictures keeps going. Few Finnish columnists (one from the 2nd largest newspaper in Finland; Aamulehti and one ex-parlamentarist) are now referring that the actions of “the youth”, ie. the “demonstration” and the signers of condolence, are now regarded equal to pyromans, muslim fanatics after 9/11 and hitler-jugend on chrystal night. Not […]
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30 May 2006
US Army covering a massacre
Monday was a memoir day in US for the soldiers killed in action. This year the day was shadowed by the cruelty of US soldiers - the massacre of Haditha [Time’s March edition].
According to the Time magazine [June edition], the US troops had been attacked with a car bomb that then had killed one soldier. […]
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30 May 2006
The first smiley
Hey all!
This is going to be a short post, but found an interesting piece of history and wanted to share it :-)
The first ever smiley :-)
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27 May 2006
The Drama around Lordi continues
After the Thursday’s holiday (who’s origin no-one can recall) the tabloid magazine apologised from Lordi [this time in English] and the fans that they publicised the photograph without permission and stated that they won’t do that again.
The tabloid lost major advertisers such as 3rd biggest beer brewer, a travelling agency and a restaurant chain.
Even a […]
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25 May 2006
Priceless
Aaaaaaahahahaha! Do you think it works against knackers? In that case, I think I’ll buy one.
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25 May 2006
Another one bites the dust
Apparently Seiska wasn’t the only one who published pictures of Lordi - in Finland I mean, “no-one expects any decency from those foreign magazines” (actual quote). This time the the publisher was a midsized morning newspaper Hämeen Sanomat.
The Council for Mass Media in Finland had instructed media to use “good manners” and, apparently all but […]
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24 May 2006
Santa-Claus lost his face
After Lordi won the Eurovision song contest they had a request for press of not publishing their real photos. Well not surpricingly -I worked in a restaurant where they usually came during and after work day and unfortunately heard many of their conversations (the one I recall best was when they wondered if Swedish use […]
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24 May 2006
Proud to be Swedish (for once)
Found this today, reminding me of the greatest source of pride I know as a Swede. I don’t often agree with the current Swedish government, but the stated goal of being independent of oil by 2020 is something which I’m wholeheartedly behind. In fact, I can see no goal upon which we should place a […]
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22 May 2006
Info Punk
PowerPoint Karaoke (it strikes me as funny that the only English link I could find is in a bioinformatics blog) seems to be the latest business monkey catharsis strategy in Berlin. The concept is simple: Gather some friends, get yourself a set of random PowerPoint presentations, bring up a beamer, and improvise a presentation on […]
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21 May 2006
Hard Rock Hallelujah!
All I can say is that hell has frozen over. We actually won the Eurovision song contest. Something also celebrated was also the fact that we won the Swedish, a benchmark important for the Finns.
I was walking through the center after the contest and it was packed with people shouting “Lordi!”, “Hard Rock Hallelujah!”, “Hell […]