Saturday, September 14, 2013

A Dish Best Served Cold...

So, you may be saying, "Friar, I read that op-ed piece by Vladimir Putin in the New York Times, and I'm a little concerned about that part where he talks about the League of Nations collapsing like the United Nations when member nations act on their own, because I checked a little history and found out that the League of Nations booted the old U.S.S.R. when it invaded Finland in 1939, while the United Nations has basically gone 'Lalala not listening' in Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, Afghanistan in 1980, Chechnya in 1991 and 1999, Georgia/South Ossetia in 2008 and so on. I'm worried that after all of these years, now that we recognize ol' Vlad as a peacemaker and all-around swell fellow, Finland won't be able to get its payback because it's going to be at the tail end of the line of the nations that get justice under all this new reasonableness and all."

And I say to you, would a band of Finnish musicians sporting fake pompadours pointier than Italian shoes, calling themselves the Leningrad Cowboys and playing a variety of classic rock and modern hits with a bad Russian accent, accordions, a horn section and sometimes as many as 30 folks in military uniforms as a chorus constitute an adequate revenge?

Then behold the wrath of the Finns:



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