It was a year and a half in the making, but "Lithuania: the Heart of the Baltics" has finally arrived. The slogan will be carved on a heart-shaped piece of amber and used to welcome the world to Lithuania. "The slogan is simple and clear," its creator Marius Jovaisa explained.
The real story, of course, "is somewhat less clear," said a Lithuanian government source speaking on the condition of anonymity. "The amber was mined by sweaty, shirtless men in a Kaliningrad quarry and smuggled over the border in the bottom of a cabbage truck. And Lithuania, geographically speaking, isn't the heart of the Baltics, but the ass or the feet." The source saw neither as a problem, however, adding that in a recent international study, only Lithuanian schoolchildren were able to find Lithuania on a world map.
Friday, November 27, 2009
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... At the same time, "Welcome to Estonia" was unveiled in Tallinn backed by a media budget of 100,000 EEK, which will be spent to buy one 5-second commercial to follow one of Gerli Kõiv's MTV videos airing between 3 and 5 a.m. in the USA.
ReplyDeleteSuggested, equally-inspiring slogans for Lithuania:
ReplyDelete"We're a real country with its own flag and everything."
"Lithuania. If you can spell it, we'll give you citizenship."
"Lithuania: More than cepellinai and CIA prisons."
"Lithuania: Not all of us live in Chicago you know."
LITHUANIA is an anagram for something. I'm just not sure what.
ReplyDeleteLithuania; that odd, tumor-shaped thing on the side of Poland. It can only be the head of Kaliningrad or the ass of Baltics. So which one's it gonna be?
ReplyDeleteThe real Hendrik would never stand for the comments interface. Back then the commenters would get to write on the scroll, palimpsest-style. Early wiki.
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ReplyDeleteJohn Galt said...
ReplyDeleteLithuania; that odd, tumor-shaped thing on the side of Poland. It can only be the head of Kaliningrad or the ass of Baltics. So which one's it gonna be?
shut up man, what can you say about Lithuania if you never been there?I know, nothing, so just shut up, and don´t write something like that!
I am from Lithuania,and some of the comments are REALLY not true! Lithuania is a great place,it's practically like America or any other country,just we talk different in our language,and i am proud to be lithuanian.So stop saying shit about Lithunia,first come to Lithuania and then you get to decide if it's a terrible country or not. !!!
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