It's the Finnish Name Factor

When Susan & her friend Deb managed a fantasy hockey team, they had a weakness for Finnish players because their names tend to be much more awesome than any other nationality's. They called this "The Finnish Name Factor". We won't talk about whether this strategy actually helped their fantasy team, though...

Ahem! Finland. It's a cool place (see what I did there?). They have a language that's practically unrelated to any others, and there are LOTS of vowels and double letters.

April from Regretsy made a trip to meet her readers from Finland last year, including a wonderful gentleman named Petja. Now, her fabulous, wonderful fans have made it possible for Petja to visit the US. We're donating some lollipops to Petja-Palooza, with custom labels that feature in-jokes from the Regretsy community (read up on the hellephant here).

We're not *quite* sure what the Finnish swear word "perkele" means, but the urban dictionary and wikipedia are here to help us out. The urban dictionary's definition is more colorful, so I'll quote it here:

Most likely the most powerful curseword ever created by mankind. Cannot be translated without loss. Versatile word that can be used alone or repeated indefinitely.

So there you have it. We've donated lollipops with foreign curse words on them. I hope we don't go to hell for this one.