Forum - View topicMoomin's fly Finnair
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Mohawk52
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I was flying out of JFK last week, after a fortnights business trip, and whilst my plane was taxiing out to take off I noticed a Finnair DC L1011 outside my window waiting to get in line too. This in itself wasn't note worthy but painted on the side of it was the characters from "Moomins". Why Finnair has done this only the Finns know.
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unhealthyman
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Because Tove Jansson is the only famous Finn ever?
[Edit] Tove Jansson wrote the original books that the anime is based on by the way. She was Finnish 
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selenta
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Well... there's certainly famous finns every 4 years
 but I guess that's not really the same thing. I don't know why they put them on there... but I love it. I wish the American companies did stuff like that, too bad they're too busy right now trying to go back and break their promises to their employees about things like retirement to do some simple advertising and not make their planes f-ugly.
Totally OT, but I can't believe the government is letting them get away with that stuff; it just blows my mind that the government can be that hypocritical. Usually it's at least different departments that cause the hypocrises in government... |
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abunai
Old Regular
 Posts: 5463 Location: 露命 |
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Elias Lönnrot and Johan Ludvig Runeberg are rotating in their graves. - abunai |
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one3rd
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And what about the numerous current and former NHL hockey players? |
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Mushiko
 Posts: 96 Location: Finland |
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I think Jean Sibelius is the one doing the most rolling.  I doubt that Runeberg is much known outside of Scandinavia, and Lönnrot, well, folk epics rarely go under their collectors' names. I don't think the Kalevala has his name on the cover (haven't got a copy at hand to check), even though he did do much more than just writing down and compiling the old songs.
I thought those Moomin planes were only flying to Japan; wonder what it was doing in the US. In the winter, Finnair has Santa planes, as well. The Moomin characters on the plane actually seem to be taken from the original illustrations by Tove Jansson. Her style is a bit more angular, but otherwise the animation stays quite close to the original character designs. If I had my Moomin books here, I could check the exact source, too. So the Moomins on the plane have nothing to do with the anime - and everything to do with it, since it has been chiefly responsible for the recent Moomin boom, especially in Japan. But Immanuel Kant sure has come a long way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tove_Jansson |
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Gauss
 Posts: 519 Location: Finland |
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They're not dead yet. |
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