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everything sounds cooler in Finnish
27 Jul 2018 08:21 pmWe just got in a discussion of mayors because I've never heard anybody mention a mayor in Finland in terms of what they've done or who they are or anything, so apparently it doesn't come up much in the news.
So Wax looked up the history of Turku mayors and found this past mayor dude who has ... maybe the coolest Finnish name ever (there's tough competition there though) (and only in the sub-category of non-alliterative Finnish names, because that's a whole other sport):
Which literally means devout cop ('devout' cognate with 'harrastus', hobby; slang for cop that Wax compares to 'the fuzz', and it's a soldier last name meaning sniper, from Swedish 'skytte', shooting).
Current NHL titleholder for coolest alliterative Finnish name is Jyrki Jokipakka, which sounds the jauntiest (Wikipedia's Kuuluisia Jyrkejä list, #24 alphabetical).
So Wax looked up the history of Turku mayors and found this past mayor dude who has ... maybe the coolest Finnish name ever (there's tough competition there though) (and only in the sub-category of non-alliterative Finnish names, because that's a whole other sport):
Harras Kyttä
Which literally means devout cop ('devout' cognate with 'harrastus', hobby; slang for cop that Wax compares to 'the fuzz', and it's a soldier last name meaning sniper, from Swedish 'skytte', shooting).
Current NHL titleholder for coolest alliterative Finnish name is Jyrki Jokipakka, which sounds the jauntiest (Wikipedia's Kuuluisia Jyrkejä list, #24 alphabetical).
