March 17th, 2009 @ 9:28 am

St. Urho’s Day

Mar 16

St. Urho’s Day, Patron saint of Finnish vineyard workers. Attributed to him is the miracle of banishing grasshoppers from Finland which he accomplished with a few choice Finnish phrases, thereby saving the season’s grape crop. But in reality a bunch of very drunk people made this up in 1956.

via Daily Rotten: Weird News.

Crap, I totally forgot about St. Urho’s Day!

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