Finnish report on new trends in folklore and culture
was published today, only in finnish, sorry.
Personally I was lucky to find a doctoral thesis on
this topic back in the 80s which "opened my mind"
(quoting a buddy from India), topic of "urban legends",
etc,etc,etc..
This whatever it was academic thingy tries to archive
things like jokes told through the decades, faxes sent
in the 80s, e-mails mailed in the 90s, and SMS messages
sent since the 90s.
The point was that the "story lines" are the same but
adapted to the media, similar to that first thing I
read explaining that all soap operas, regular operas,
urban legends, Donald Duck, Bonanza, Dallas and JR, etc
go back to the 5 major stories of Gilgamesh (Eufrat
and Tigris) with Shakespear somewhere in the middle.
All those things which makes people connect, not just
"ladies and gentlemen, start your connectors" as in
Le Mans.
To quote Tero, that thing which makes people cough up
$100 a month on connecting, not just paying for substitutes
and drinking beer.
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But why do analysts not see the combination of WAP+GPRS
and flat rates for sometimes delayed messages, who cares
if it is 2 or 30 seconds delayed??
Must be a cultural and fat middle manager thing???
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Btw, my SMS messages to Africa are delivered in 2.5 seconds,
or at least I now get the receipt in 5 seconds.
Additionally I have scared all the grandkids in the family
by reminding them of the possibility to have to provide
a copy of the longitude, etc position when getting that
crucial call "where are you"??
(obviously I gave the advice of pre-producing the
SMS message, just edit the date and time)
Ilmarinen
Already the vikings had this need to personalize their
belongings, as did the egyptians and babylonians.
(but the xxx-rated are often censored even in modern
Britannica, not so in finnish news) |
