Karjalainen jokes

[Lauri Kokko]

In article <4b65no$c...@ratatosk.uio.no>, ansp...@bioslave.uio.no (Anne Spurkland) says:
>
>My colleague, Torstein Egeland, is very fond of Karjalainen jokes.

Here is one:

Karjalainen was pissed off because the finns always joked about his bad
English. Now he was going to the Crimean (Krim) on an official visit and
wanted to make sure to use proper English when greeting the people meeting
him at the airport.
Karjalainen landed from the airplane and greeted the people: "Hello Criminals!"

There are many more...

Lauri Kokko
Lauk...@freenet.hut.fi

[Lasse Holmström. KTL, Helsinki]

> Karjalainen was pissed off because the finns always joked about his bad
> English. Now he was going to the Crimean (Krim) on an official visit and
> wanted to make sure to use proper English when greeting the people meeting
> him at the airport.
> Karjalainen landed from the airplane and greeted the people: "Hello Criminals!"

On the next official visit to an (ex-) soviet country he was smarter.
He asked his secretary to find out the proper way to greet the local
peopple in their own language. To remember it, he wrote it on the
back of his tie.

As the plane had landed and he was decending from the plain, he took a
glimpse on his tie and greeted the peopple: "Trevira".

Lasse

[Markku Verkkoniemi]

ansp...@bioslave.uio.no (Anne Spurkland) wrote:
>My colleague, Torstein Egeland, is very fond of Karjalainen jokes. He

>wants to get in touch with people who know such jokes. Please send to his
>E.mail address or post as a followup to this posting.
>
>torstein...@labmed.uio.no
>
>best regards
>
>Anne and Torstein

Their common name in Finnish is 'tankerovitsit' (tankero jokes).

The original number one joke is as follows:

Foreign minister Ahti Karjalainen was visiting a small African
country, and naturally his hosts took him on a safari. They drove
for miles on a rattling jeep, and finally encountered an
elephant. Ahti pointed it with his finger, and remarked:
'Tankero!' His main host, the local foreign minister, smiled
heartily, and nodded in agreement not to offend his guest.

They kept on going, and crossed a small river. There were some
hippos bathing in the water, and our honored foreign minister
pointed at them saying again: 'Tankero!'. The local host laughed
a bit, and agreed: 'Yes, yes', but was getting seemingly confused
at the same time.

The sun was getting close to the horizon, and pretty soon they
had to get going back to town. While they were returning on their
tracks, they suddenly noticed a lion laying down in the high
grass. 'Tankero!' was mr Karjalainen's remark again. Now the
African minister all mixed up turned to the Finnish minister's
aide, and asked: 'What is he trying to say?' 'You'll see soon'
was the humble reply, and while they were crossing back through
the park's entrance gate they noticed a big sign with a warning:
'All animals are dangerous.'

Merry Christmas!

Markku