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- From: J.Theodore.Schuerzinger@dartmouth.edu (J. Theodore Schuerzinger)
- Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
- Subject: Greeting Card Shenanigan
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.182433.21186@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 18:24:33 GMT
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- Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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- Two shenanigans I pulled that have to do with greeting cards:
-
- 1. Recently, my mother celebrated her 50th birthday. I knew I was
- going to be studying in Russia at the time. The orientation to our
- foreign-study program was in Helsinki, so while I was in Helsinki, I
- decided I'd buy my mom a birthday card. In FINNISH. (Naturally,
- neither my mom nor I knows any Finnish!) So I found a card that had a
- giant '50' on the front and looked like a birthday card (as opposed to
- an anniversary card). I even got a Finnish phrasebook and signed
- 'Happy birthday' to her in Finnish! Aren't those big numbers a nice
- way to be told that you're 50?
-
- 2. A few years ago my sister and I found that a local greeting-card
- shop had Fathers' Day cards in a bunch of foreign languages, so we
- bought my dad a card -- in Polish. (No, nobody in the family knows
- Polish either.... We signed the card 'Happy Kielbasa Day!"
-
- --Ted Schuerzinger
- email: .zed@Dartmouth.EDU
- "I should have realized it would be bad vodka when all the label said
- was 'Russian Vodka'."
-