# Happy St. Urho's Day **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 16, 2006, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-st-urhos-day/348594 "2006-03-16T13:52:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![St.Urho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@St.Urho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Urho)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-st-urhos-day/348594/1 "2006-03-16T13:52:33Z")
Happy [St. Urho’s Day](http://www.sainturho.com/)! Heinäsirkka, heinäsirkka,mene täältä hiiteen" ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-st-urhos-day/348594/2 "2006-03-16T14:22:19Z")
WHEE!!! So, how do I celebrate? Drink some wine? Chase grasshoppers? Drink grasshoppers? What’s the official food? There’s so much to know! Tell us oh, great **St. Urho**! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-st-urhos-day/348594/3 "2006-03-16T14:27:28Z")
Have you seen this site? See the statue of Urho with the giant grasshopper!: [http://www.roadsideamerica.com/map/mn.html](http://www.roadsideamerica.com/map/mn.html) ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-st-urhos-day/348594/4 "2006-03-16T14:31:11Z")
> [@St. Urho](#): > > Happy [St. Urho’s Day](http://www.sainturho.com/)! > > Heinäsirkka, heinäsirkka,mene täältä hiiteen" That’s easy for you to say. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-st-urhos-day/348594/5 "2006-03-16T15:16:20Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > WHEE!!! So, how do I celebrate? Drink some wine? Chase grasshoppers? Drink grasshoppers? What’s the official food? There’s so much to know! Tell us oh, great **St. Urho**! Beer is always appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![St.Urho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@St.Urho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Urho)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-st-urhos-day/348594/6 "2006-03-16T15:37:13Z")
> [@slortar](#): > > Beer is always appropriate. Indeed. Wear purple. Also, I hereby proclaim the official food to be [pasties.](http://www.hu.mtu.edu/vup/pasty/history.htm) ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-st-urhos-day/348594/7 "2006-03-16T15:55:05Z")
> [@slortar](#): > > Beer is always appropriate. Well, DUH! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-st-urhos-day/348594/8 "2006-03-16T16:03:07Z")
> [@](#): > > Also, I hereby proclaim the official food to be pasties. But how do you get women to wear them on their breasts? Does it involve beer? How much? ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-st-urhos-day/348594/9 "2006-03-16T16:12:37Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > But how do you get women to wear them on their breasts? > > Does it involve beer? How much? I object to that final question as it implies that there is, in fact, such a thing as too much beer. Second the pasties. Bring 'em on. Attaching them to women first is optional, but a nice touch. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-st-urhos-day/348594/10 "2006-03-16T16:52:01Z")
Well, I tried, but now I’ve got gravy and vegetable bits all over… 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-st-urhos-day/348594/11 "2006-03-16T17:04:43Z")
Finland has a grape crop? Really? No. Really? ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-st-urhos-day/348594/12 "2006-03-16T17:16:13Z")
It’s so they can make ice wine **Shirley**. Should we be sayin’ “OOMPH DAH!” a lot today? ---
**Author:** ![MsMitey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@MsMitey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsMitey)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-st-urhos-day/348594/13 "2006-03-16T17:19:36Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Have you seen this site? See the statue of Urho with the giant grasshopper!: > > [http://www.roadsideamerica.com/map/mn.html](http://www.roadsideamerica.com/map/mn.html) I grew up about 10 miles from there. I love telling southerners about St. Urho! It makes me feel like Betty White in the Golden Girls. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-st-urhos-day/348594/14 "2006-03-16T17:32:57Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Well, I tried, but now I’ve got gravy and vegetable bits all over… 😕 Ummmm…gravey and vegetable bits! ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2006, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-st-urhos-day/348594/15 "2006-03-16T23:21:14Z")
> [@St. Urho](#): > > Happy [St. Urho’s Day](http://www.sainturho.com/)! Now I’m always going to see that silly bobble-head guy when I read your posts. That’s what you look like to me now. 🙂 Happy Day, St. Urho! ---
**Author:** ![St.Urho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@St.Urho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Urho)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-st-urhos-day/348594/16 "2006-03-17T00:04:16Z")
That’s too bad, I like [this guy](http://www.sainturho.com/finlandmn/finlandstatue.htm) much better. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-st-urhos-day/348594/17 "2006-03-17T05:32:54Z")
Hauskaa Pyha Urjo Paivaa! (sorry about the letter “a”) I wondered why I never heard of this urho when I was in Finland. Now I know, it was purely a construct of the Finnish Diaspora in Minnesota. ---
**Author:** ![Grey\_Tama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/49beb7/32.png) [@Grey\_Tama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey_Tama)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-st-urhos-day/348594/18 "2006-03-17T09:17:44Z")
Beer and St Urho, in Finland: [St Urho’s Pub](http://www.botta.fi/urhos_pub/) in downtown Helsinki. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-st-urhos-day/348594/19 "2006-03-17T16:01:02Z")
> [@slortar](#): > > Beer is always appropriate. > [@St. Urho](#): > > Wear purple. So, purple beer? Grape soda OK too? My Day is coming up on the 28th. squee