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[Rob <becida AT comcast.net>]

Date:   Thu, 25 Feb 1999 19:52:36 -0500
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From: Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT roanoke.infi.net>
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Subject: Re: Those crazy Finnlanders.
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Bevanron wrote:

> Tvoivozhd wrote:
> >
> > > -
> > > Bevanron of Rock Creek
> > > erthnsky AT bellsouth.net
> > > SISU!
>
> > >>>tvoivozhd---not quite as succinct, but the ultimate in this 
determination
> > category is the indelicate Russian phrase, "srumsya nye podumsya"
>
> You see Tvo, the poor Russians try to emulate the Finns in their
> persistentness...but, we scare them so...<g>  They just don't have the
> gonads or the self control!<VBEG>
> ...My ancestors actually moved into what is now Lappland, Finland from
> the area that is now the Baltic states and prior to that,
> Siberia...Ghengis Khan chased them all the way across Asia to the
> Baltics before they made a stand there...The great Khan turned tail and
> went home.  A true Finn chooses not to fight, but when he has to, look
> out!
>
> Bev of the Kuivala clan from North of the Circle...<G>
>
> --
> Bevanron of Rock Creek
> erthnsky AT bellsouth.net
> SISU! (Finnish--There is no single word in English that encompasses
> all that sisu means, but it combines the following ideas... guts, pep,
> determination, stubborness, perseverance, hardy, stamina, go, do, nerve,
> spunk, pluck, and grit.  It's like "Just Do It!" & "Go for It!")

>>>tvoivozhd---the epicanthic fold (Mongolian eyelids) marks all those whose
ancestors spent a few thousand years on the steppes enroute to Lappland from
Africa.  Among these are a high percentage of all Nordics in the 
first wave whose
fingers reached down the Danube to the Black Sea, to Scotland, North 
Ireland, and
Normandy.

I tell you, they are a damned nuisance.  Fine for a thirty five year 
life span and
protecting the eyes from the arctic sun and snowblindness, but in Virginia