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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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the programmers of the KimmiBot haven't perfected the humour chip yet.
I did like the one race where no one knew if he had retured or not and the engineerers thought he was coming back as they could get the car started and he was walking round the motorhome eating ice cream.
(, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:35, 1 reply, 16 years ago)
it was just because he was Finnish. They're dour bastards, as a rule.
One of the highest suicide rates in the world too, along with the Hungarians (who are ethnically very similar).
Today's useless fact was brought to you by the letter F and the number 1.
(, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:37, Reply)
But geographically so far away! I want answers..
(, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:39, Reply)
and migrated westwards. When they got to the Urals, one group went north, split again into two, and inhabited what is now Finland and Estonia, and the other group went south and ended up in Hungary.
The three languages are similar as a result (they constitute the Finno-Ugric group) and this may be one reason why the Finns traditionally turn up in large numbers to the Budapest GP. The languages are pretty difficult because they're so different. The accent in Hungarian (and possibly Finnish too) is always on the first syllable of the word, which is why it sounds so stilted.
(, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:44, Reply)
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