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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (13844)	8/17/1998 11:19:00 AM
From: Jon Koplik	Respond to of 152472

Tero - thanks for the info. Jon. EOM.

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (13844)	8/17/1998 11:34:00 AM
From: Vanha kettu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Tero, I caught you again spreading inaccurate information to our American amigos :-) (Hyi hyi, tuhma poika.) Besides Ž and ™ (a-umlaut and o-umlaut, if you prefer it that way), we do have that funny originally Swedish letter on our keyboards. If it matters anything... Todays aphorism: Have you ever thought that Swedes found America 1000 AD, but didn't see the value of the land and left it uninhabited. Colonization didn't get a real boost before Finns landed in Pennsylvania on the 17th century.

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (13844)	8/17/1998 3:12:00 PM
From: John Cuthbertson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Re: Those wacky Finns! As Paul Rodriguez said, "Hey! This is America! Speak SPANISH!!" Brian H., if I recall correctly, the Finns (like the Hungarians) are thought to be descended from nomadic Mongol peoples, so your suggestion about being related isn't so farfetched. (Tero and Pekka, am I remembering right about that?) Marginmike, if you look again at Pekka's post (#13848) I think you'll see that he isn't teasing Americans, he's poking fun at the Swedes, an activity which we all traditionally heartily enjoy ;-) Pekka, here's a joke you might enjoy I that I remember from growing up in Missouri. One day a meeting of the 50 American states was convened at which all of the states were to choose their symbols. Of course, the first states to choose got the best, most attractive symbols, like "Sunshine" for Florida. As the selection progressed, eventually only the oddball or uninspiring symbols were left, like "Buckeyes" for Ohio. Finally, only Missouri and Minnesota were left to choose, and the only remaining symbols available were "Mules" and "Swedes". Of course, Minnesota got last choice! ==John

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (13844)	8/31/1998 12:11:00 AM
From: Jon Koplik	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Tero - sounds like there is some wacko, escaped, gigantic weather balloon headed in your direction : August 30, 1998 Balloon Heads Toward North Pole A.P. INDEXES: TOP STORIES \| NEWS \| SPORTS \| BUSINESS \| TECHNOLOGY \| ENTERTAINMENT Filed at 10:29 p.m. EDT By The Associated Press LONDON (AP) -- Against all odds, a giant runaway weather balloon appeared headed toward the North Pole on Sunday after eluding another attempt to catch up to it. A U.S. Navy pilot who believed he spotted the 25-story balloon on Sunday had to return to a NATO base in Keflavik, Iceland, when his plane developed a propeller leak, said Halli Sigurdsson, deputy director of Air Traffic Services in Iceland. ''We are fairly optimistic the balloon has been found,'' he told The Associated Press. He said another navy plane will be sent to try to catch up to it. Canadian jet fighters fired more than 1,000 rounds into the helium-filled balloon on Thursday, but it remained aloft. The balloon disappeared off radar screens late Saturday night about 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Sigurdsson said its disappearance is worrisome because of the possible interference with air traffic. Airplanes from Canada, Britain and the U.S. military in Iceland had been tracking the runaway balloon, and air traffic controllers had been diverting planes from its path. The balloon is not equipped with transponders that emit navigation signals to alert airliners to its presence. Sigurdsson said the Navy believes the errant balloon is now east of Greenland and north of mainland Norway. ''If this is the balloon, it looks like it's heading towards Spitsbergen,'' a remote Norwegian island on the Arctic Circle off the country's north coast, he said. The wayward balloon, an unstaffed research station used to measure ozone levels over Canada, can be seen from about 40 miles away. It was launched Aug. 24 from Vanscoy, Saskatchewan, just outside Saskatoon.