Some time earlier our Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen, 52, dated too. Her mistress said that they met through an online dating service, and that he dumbed her by a brief text message: "It's over." Mr Vanhanen said that they actually met at IKEA.
Yes, yes. That's more like normal Finnish behaviour. Speak nothing. Dumb by a text. Blame Sweden.
Well, after this she published a kiss-and-tell memoir detailing his romantic emails, text messages
and how he once passionately compared her to an oven-baked potato, his other great love.
Oh, can you guess who he is?
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The Finnish Minister for Funny Walks?
Hmm, he doesn't actually look too dissimilar to the famous potato botherer... surely it's not, though?
Anyway, that was great - the line about blaming Sweden in particular :)
English education lesson, no. 537:
Dump: to drop (someone or something).
Dumb: unable to speak.
Hmm,I preferred dumbed: to dump in a dumb (stupid and speechless) way. The perfect word, really, in that instance :)
Well, he is our new Foreign Minister, Alexander Stubb.
Dave, I really am dumb, so I know the meaning of the word, but this time that was kind of trying to be intentional. Hmm, I think I must start labeling my conscious stupidities somehow...
Foreign Minister? A likely story.
He's clearly the man of whom W.S.Gilbert wrote: 'Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen, An attachment à la Plato for a bashful young potato or a not too French French bean...If he's content with a vegetable love, which would certainly not suit me, Why, what a particularly pure young man this pure young man must be!'
(I expect Dave will be able to hum the tune.)
Oh for the days of Castlereagh and Bismarck.
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