An example of wordplay in Fingerpori. In this strip, the main character Heimo Vesa buys regular "maito" saying "No onpa kallista!", "Well that's expensive!" when seeing the price of "kyytön maito". "Kyyttö" is a rare Finnish breed of cattle, "kyytön maito" is "kyyttö's milk". The wording can also be read as follows: "kyy" is "viper", "-tön" is a privative suffix, and "kyytön" is "viperless".
Author(s)
Pertti Jarla
Current status/schedule
Current daily strip
Launch date
February 2007; 17 years ago (2007-02)
Publisher(s)
Arktinen Banaani
Genre(s)
Humor, Wordplay
Preceded by
Karl-Barks-Stadt
Fingerpori is a Finnish comic strip written and drawn by Pertti Jarla. It started in Helsingin Sanomat in February 2007, and is comprehensively distributed in major provincial newspapers. Literally, fingerpori is a thimble, but fingerporillinen is a proverbial small amount of alcohol, and Pori is a Finnish town.
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