From: Blair Leatherwood 

On 11/12/13, 10:42 AM, John W. Kennedy wrote:
> On Friday, November 8, 2013 1:09:10 AM UTC-5, Joe Chicago wrote:
>> I just found a YouTube thing called Star Wreck, an Eastern European spoof on
 both ST:TNG and Bab 5. Fairly amusing. They even made a point of having
Garabaldi put his hands in his pockets!
>
> Although Finland is in Europe and is eastern, it is not generally regarded as
 "Eastern Europe", as it was never part of the Byzantine Empire, is not Eastern
 Orthodox, has never been Turkic or Islamic, is not Slavic, and was never a
component or satellite of the Soviet Union.
>

Not only that, it's not usually considered Scandinavia--huge debate on 
that one, but I'm on the "it's not Scandinavian" side.

Poor Finland.  I think the only reason it exists is to have a language 
in which to dump all the consonants no one else uses.

Blair




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