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#1 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:42 am

Performed by Leningrad Cowboys and the Red Army Choir





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lNFRLrP ... w/3114/85/
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Leningrad Cowboys is a Finnish rock and roll band famous for its humorous songs and concerts featuring the Soviet Red Army Choir.
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#2 Post by silvercamaro » Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:50 am

Love that -- especially the ending, which morphed into The Volga Boatmen.

Say, tmitsss, did you notice the shoes on the lead singer? Don't you have a similar pair of reindeer boots?
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#3 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:16 am

silvercamaro wrote: Say, tmitsss, did you notice the shoes on the lead singer? Don't you have a similar pair of reindeer boots?
Why yes, now that you mention it, I do, they were given to me by an elf.
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#4 Post by Rexer25 » Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:23 am

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:
silvercamaro wrote: Say, tmitsss, did you notice the shoes on the lead singer? Don't you have a similar pair of reindeer boots?
Why yes, now that you mention it, I do, they were given to me by an elf.
Reindeer boots with seersucker? Ewwwwwwwww.
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#5 Post by silvercamaro » Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:30 am

Rexer25 wrote:
Reindeer boots with seersucker? Ewwwwwwwww.
The man can carry it off. He's got style.
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#6 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:49 am

Rexer25 wrote: Reindeer boots with seersucker? Ewwwwwwwww.
It would seem to be ok if it yellow and brown seersucker.
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#7 Post by tanstaafl2 » Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:46 pm

Well that was different.

But it may help explain why the Finns have on of the highest suicide mortality rates in the world. Apparently they are frellin' nuts cakes.
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#8 Post by Bob Juch » Wed Mar 19, 2008 4:15 pm

tanstaafl2 wrote:Well that was different.

But it may help explain why the Finns have on of the highest suicide mortality rates in the world. Apparently they are frellin' nuts cakes.
Nah, like Jimmy Buffet sings: If we weren't all crazy we would go insane.
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#9 Post by tanstaafl2 » Wed Mar 19, 2008 4:35 pm

Bob Juch wrote:
tanstaafl2 wrote:Well that was different.

But it may help explain why the Finns have on of the highest suicide mortality rates in the world. Apparently they are frellin' nuts cakes.
Nah, like Jimmy Buffet sings: If we weren't all crazy we would go insane.
Well, there is that I suppose. So maybe these guys got all the crazy genes and that is why the rest of the Finns aren't doing so well...
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