Conan O'Brien needs more postcards

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A few weeks ago, Conan O'Brien started a "Conan O'Brien Hates My Homeland" postcard campaign by asking people from around the world to send him postcards and Finland was the first to send a card with a mildly profane greeting on it. :) Apparently, many other Finns have followed suit and the show airing tonight on SubTV should be fairly amusing for those of us here. Someone has a rather large [31mb] mpeg of the segment where he admits that Finland is his core audience and, to offer succor to his insulted fans, tells the world that Sweden does, in fact, suck. Now, I don't know that I have enough motivation to get Conan's head put on a stamp from the Suomen Posti as the earlier web page suggests, but what about sending Conan a postcard per week until he relents and promises to come do a show in Helsinki for a week like they did in Canada?! Maybe we can beg the Finnish Consulate, Finnish expats and other friends we have in NYC to go see the show and sing the "Finland, Finland, Finland" song until he agrees. It probably won't happen, but it sure would be fun to get him to do a show here. Think of all the things he could do: take a sauna, eat makkara, make fun of drunks on the trams and subway, attempt ordering coffee and korvapusti in Finnish, bring some Budweiser along and finally determine if Lapin Kulta is even more of a king of bad beer than Bud is, try salmiakki, wear something Marimekko, visit Santa, and sail to Stockholm to personally deliver the message that Sweden does, indeed, suck. :)

Finland, expats too, grab your pens, postage and postikorttit and direct your witty goading to:

Conan O'Brien hates my homeland Must Come To Finland
NBC
30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA
New York, NY 10112
USA

Extra bonus points for those who can communicate to him in his native dialect, Masshole Townese. Tell him we have wicked good Dunkin Donuts in Finland and massively large packies but that we gotta go to Talinn, our equivalent to New Hampshire, for cheap stuff. His family lives in Belmont, just over the road from where I used to live so he's still a townie. :)

11 Jun 2004 at 14:59, Helsinki