Not to stereotype the Finns

Posted on January 20, 2004 by acb

or anything, because I am sure that at this time of year their workplaces are full of lively gossip from long before sunrise till deep into the night, but the Telegraph reports (via AFP, via Ilta Sanomat) that a 60-year-old tax inspector remained quite silent at his desk for two whole days before his colleagues in Helsinki noticed he was dead.

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3 Responses to Not to stereotype the Finns

  1. qB says:
    January 20, 2004 at 9:34 pm

    Nothing to do with tax inspectors, then.

  2. Rupert says:
    January 21, 2004 at 8:54 am

    Wise words to live by.

    R

  3. el Patron says:
    January 21, 2004 at 9:13 am

    Though they resonate best in silence.

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