With the biggest annual song contest in Europe approaching, representatives from different countries are easily found on YouTube, and so are more than 15 short clips, advertising Eurovision 2007.
User Rittoryhma has posted a series of funny videos, “Markku’s tales from Finland,” the latest of which has attracted more than 2,900 views, viewings of his first video exceed 53,400 views.
The videos show the sights of Finland, where the May 2007 contest will be held. Other than the “Welcome, Eurovision 2007” line in each of the clips, they are totally unrelated and random, combined by the common effort to promote Finland.
With his strong accent, Markku often says a “fact” about Finland or the Finnish people, such as the Finnish language originates from J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” or the Finnish are divided into nations, including the coffee nation that drinks “the most coffee in the whole wide world.”
“Finland is a free country,” concludes Markku in his 14th clip, in which he is sitting next to a guy with a facemask, who refuses to take it off and show his real face, saying that was not part of the plan.
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