Showing posts with label Finland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Finland. Show all posts

Monday, 30 July 2012

No. 230.

Barry Cryer had a number one single in Finland with a cover of Purple People Eater, quite possibly because the original hadn't been released there for contractual reasons.

(Source: Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast.)

Thursday, 15 March 2012

No. 83.

The Finnish word for 'pedant', pilkunnussija, translates as 'comma fucker'.

(Source: QI Elves Twitter feed: Qikipedia.)

Thursday, 19 January 2012

No. 27.

According to researchers in Finland, if the doll Barbie was life size, she would be too thin to menstruate.

(Source: BBC News.)