Finnish Posti issued a booklet of 6 funny stamps depicting the crazy
sports typical for Finns: carrying a lady, playing swamp soccer, sitting in the
ant nest, boot throwing, playing air guitar, and wheeling a cart with a man
inside. Stamp designer Bruno Maximus
hopes that these humorous stamps would spread all over the world and rouse
their recipients’ smile. Finns have a passion for odd contests and they even arrange world
championships in various weird sports. Artist Bruno Maximus has
picked these peculiar Finnish sports as the themes of the Finnish
Odditystamp booklet: wife carrying, air guitar playing, anthill sitting,
boot throwing, old-geezer carting, and swamp soccer.
Shy Finns can vent their feelings and anxieties in odd contests where
you can just be yourself. I hope that these stamps will travel around the world
and put a smile on the recipients' faces, Bruno Maximus says. The graphic
designer of the Finnish Oddity stamp booklet is Tero Jämsä.
Since 1991, there have been about one hundred exhibitions by Bruno
Maximus, both in Finland and abroad. His works are famous for unexpectedness,
fairy tale elements, and delightful humor. Designing stamps was a very
pleasing assignment for Maximus; he has been dreaming of it since he was ten.
Bruno Maximus painted the originals in oils; they are 40 cm x 60 cm in size.
Wife carrying
In this competition, you carry a
woman (at least 49 kg) through an obstacle course as quickly as possible.
Boot throwing
A sport that requires power and good
technique. You throw a rubber boot (about 1 kg) as far as possible.
Air guitar
The idea is to play an imaginary
guitar while expressing the music and rhythm.
Old geezer carting
In this contest, a woman competes to
carry a man on a milk cart through a course as quickly as possible.
Ant nest sitting
Grit and stamina are needed in this
sport, where you don't wear pants and sit on an ant's nest for as long as you
can.
Swamp football
Swamp soccer is played for 2 x 10 minutes
in a bog pitch of 60 x 35 meters.
Ella I think these games are great, but, I’d
prefer to be a spectator and not a participantJ
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