They are attempting to make a joke about the capital of Finland (Helsinki) but failed. It’s not called HellSlinki… A little research may have helped. Would it be that tough to have a sink in Hell? Would have made more sense…
If someone had posted that instead, who’s to say you (or someone like you) wouldn’t find fault with that one too, on account of the extra “l” and lack of an “i”, not to mention the tendency of people to see “sink in Hell” rather than “Hell-sink” in the first place?
This is not the “So Much Take Everything Way Too Literally and Get Your Panties in a Bunch” web site; it is “So Much Pun”. You’re missing out on the basic concept here.
Well then the capital of Finland would be Hellsink — an even bigger fail than Helslinki. Or we could put a picture of the Titanic painted like a Finnish flag and call it Helsinking, but that doesn’t work either.
Personally, I like the Helslinki. It’s close enough, and clever. I’m also going to give our Finnish friend a pass on this since he’s Finnish, and along with The Swiss and The Americans, are some of the most proud to be from their country than just about any other country (when it doesn’t involve Football/Soccer). Besides, they kick Russian ass and scare the Swedes. They’re my kind of people.
Really not funny if you’re not familiar with european capitals. Which, being an American with a poor education, I looked it up. “Helsinki”
I actually guessed, “Slinkinhel”, lol.
Who would these forked-tails bear,
To slink and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death-
The undiscover’d country, from whose coils
No traveller returns- puzzles the will…
Glad to see nice Finns don’t like Suomi-no-fun’s attitude either.
^.^ ...but is already worked up into a lather, so to speak.
How do you tell someone to *read* the thread they are bashing
so they don't look - ironically - silly themselves?
Look at the title. If you know the capital of Finland, or look it up, you’ll get it. If you are too lazy to look it up (like I am sometimes), I will tell you here and now that the capital of finland is Helsinki.
double your meaning, double your puns,
double your helix, double your hellions –
less sugar, less fun,
moral-less lass tryin’ it,
more or less devilish Tridents.
pun
[puhn]
–noun
1. the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
No one said you were an idiot, but becoming angry and blaming
the joke when you don't get it is not very gracious.
(It makes you look much worse than not getting it at all would do...)
- The caption regarding Finland is a hint.
(by way of which the inquisitive may initiate research)
- The flag coloring is also a hint, but not necessary to the conclusion.
(a lot of people probably don’t even notice it)
- Horns and a tail generally lead a lot of people to think of Hell.
So, no, you didn’t have to know all that. There are several people here who did not get the meaning at first, but took the effort to work it out, or even came up with their own funny interpretations. There are even some who admit they did not get it, but had fun with the joke after they saw an answer. On the other hand, you chose to whine about it.
Yeah, Bob. I mean, I never gave enough of a damn about A Few Good Men to watch it, so when the pun came up I said “to Hell with it”, and did something else for a while. (It was a great poster mock-up and I have nothing against the movie – just not my thing.)
I guess what I’m saying is, if you see people playing a game you don’t know, and you don’t care to learn what they find so amusing about it, just slink off somewhere and play with – er, by – yourself.
*dives into crunchy paper bag* Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wouldn’t call it that; it was more like a bouncing nightmare which emerged so suddenly. I couldn’t believe the elasticity of fate that has come upon me.
Hello, kittenish high halfling. May you be abundantly blessed with Slack.
(You have no need to apologize – the Society commends all who happily use their brains. It is a much more productive pursuit than getting all twisted up and slinking around being mad as Hell about it.)
Hah hah haa! Hellslinky! Oh, that’s funny as hell. And I’m from Finland,
and I still find this very funny. And FYI, everyone, the capital of Finland
is Helsinki. Hellslinky. So everybody, who thinks that this isn’t a pun but
a political joke, you’re all idiots. Well, can’t blame you americans for not
knowing this. There’s actualy a TV-commercial playing here in Finland
showing a finish man interviewing americans and asking them, if they
know what’s the capital of Finland. Nobody knows. But I bet there are
some americans who DO know what is the capital, and I salute you all,
but my point is, that most americans should totally take their lessons
about Europe. I mean, Finland, people oughta know is atleast about
three things. One, Paavo Nurmi, the “flying finn”. Two, sisu, we won the
fucking russians in WWII by OURSELVES!!! And three, SANTA CLAUSE!!!
And if not that, then four, Mika Häkkinen and Kimi Räikkönen.
Be nice, Noogai – we’re not all idiots. It’s just that the hard-headed Americans are also the loudest Americans sometimes. I’m sure you get some of that there too.
(besides, I’m sure there are Finns that would disagree with your “sporting” priorities for national pride as well… and you’re likely to start a hellfire-worthy flame war by claiming Santa Claus!)
Hey, Noo, think fast - what's the capital of Missouri?
I’m American, and I not only know what the capitol of Finland is, I know how to pronounce it correctly- and I already knew about the russians and santa claus, but paavo nurmi is someone I’m going to look up. Do you know the capitol of Georgia, USA? It’s okay if you don’t, it’s way over-rated! I saw the northern lights in Oulu one night, and they took my breath away!!
I didn’t get it either until my friend explained it to me. It shows the flag of Finland… The capital of Finland is Helsinki… Hell-slinky because it is a slinky in hell
I can’t believe in all this time nobody has mentioned the flag is completely inaccurate! Everyone knows the dimensions are 11×18 and the blue should be 3 wide. This flag isn’t even 2 wide. No wonder the pun is so confusing.
LOL JUST KIDDING! I laughed out loud at the pun, laughing and booing, it was so funny. So sorry the author took so much L over his extra L! You really shouldn’t be Punnished this way. At least you weren’t sent to a Punitentiary!
wat
Wat was the father of James, Wat’s son, co-discoverer of the double helix structure of DNA …
♪♫ A slinky plus a slinky, makes for a double joy –
A slinky plus a slinky, creates all the girls and boys.
Everyone makes love ‘cuz of a slinky. ♪♫
*sigh*
All those nostalgic feelings come rushing in on the nucleotides…
They are attempting to make a joke about the capital of Finland (Helsinki) but failed. It’s not called HellSlinki… A little research may have helped. Would it be that tough to have a sink in Hell? Would have made more sense…
If someone had posted that instead, who’s to say you (or someone like you) wouldn’t find fault with that one too, on account of the extra “l” and lack of an “i”, not to mention the tendency of people to see “sink in Hell” rather than “Hell-sink” in the first place?
This is not the “So Much Take Everything Way Too Literally and Get Your Panties in a Bunch” web site; it is “So Much Pun”. You’re missing out on the basic concept here.
Well then the capital of Finland would be Hellsink — an even bigger fail than Helslinki. Or we could put a picture of the Titanic painted like a Finnish flag and call it Helsinking, but that doesn’t work either.
Personally, I like the Helslinki. It’s close enough, and clever. I’m also going to give our Finnish friend a pass on this since he’s Finnish, and along with The Swiss and The Americans, are some of the most proud to be from their country than just about any other country (when it doesn’t involve Football/Soccer). Besides, they kick Russian ass and scare the Swedes. They’re my kind of people.
I approve of this message!
Really not funny if you’re not familiar with european capitals. Which, being an American with a poor education, I looked it up. “Helsinki”
I actually guessed, “Slinkinhel”, lol.
Slinkin’ Hell! Stupid devil-toy tried to make someone think!
“No, this is the Valley. Finland is the capital of Norway.”
Of course, they know how to Finnish with a little twist.
{Not surprising they’re confused in the Valley, with all their brain energy on hair cuts and trying to look like a Pop Tart …}
(Of course, if those girls thought of something outside the country, it would probably be Apocalyptica-l.)
omg stop usin tiny print! i cant read the damn thing…
For those that didn’t get it, the capital of Finland is Helsinki.
This is a Hell Slinky.
Except its a devil-slinky… with the Finnish flag on the side of it. It looks more like a political cartoon than a pun.
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
John Milton, Paradise Lost
… for there is nothing
either good or bad, but slinkies makes it so: to me
Denmark is a prison.
Hamlet, Shamlet
Who would these forked-tails bear,
To slink and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death-
The undiscover’d country, from whose coils
No traveller returns- puzzles the will…
This post really set the standard for those that followed!
(I am such a Paradise Lost fangirl…. That is my favorite quote, probably. <3)
^ (polemically epic poetry groupie)
May the Tree of Knowledge of Good Ideas bloom for us all.
…and to the heart inspire vernal delight and joy.
Thanks for the explanation.
/feeling kinda stupid for not getting it.
Can someone explain that to me?
I just don’t get it – a “finnish devil-spring” ?! What ?!
If you run like Hell into a devil-spring finish, you will probably land on your noggin and jog your mind a little.
Hm, sounds like a march into Helsinki for a paradise lost cause.
You know me – play Faust, ask directions later.
...mein Goethe im Himmel...sounds impossibly Quixotic......you've been Cervantes'd...
You know me – I’m a little pícara… and prone to be errant day and knight.
*dreaming of adventures*
*mrr-prrrrrrr*
We speak Finnish in Finland… not German… Vitun mulkku…
Noooo, but Goethe was German and we were talking about Faust… and Cervantes with Spanish.
Why are you so mean, anyway? Is Finland really that much like Hell?
aw, cmon Suomineito, stop making us look bad and learn to laugh at a silly pun
.. ja samalla voisit pestä suus saippualla. grow up, kthnx
Glad to see nice Finns don’t like Suomi-no-fun’s attitude either.
Look at the title. If you know the capital of Finland, or look it up, you’ll get it. If you are too lazy to look it up (like I am sometimes), I will tell you here and now that the capital of finland is Helsinki.
♫♪ In Nordic airs, hosts Finland’s affairs, its name’s a slinkity sound…
In spring, Helsing(for)’s a marvelous thing! Everyone knows – Helsinki. ♪♫
Abraham Van Helsing-ki: I bring you from shadow into light. I cast you out, the Slinky of Darkness, into Hell!
Ooooh. I get it. I laughed on the inside.
That is definitely a Hell-ical spring of some sort…
...Lucy springs Eternal...That is definitely a Hell-ical spring of some sort…
A downward spiral, for sure … and a burnin’ ring of fire.
♫ The taste of love is sweet
When springs and stairs meet
I fell for you like a child
Oh, but the play gets wild ♫
I got “Devil Sweedish Slinky” {sic}.
Should’ve put the Swiss flag on that slinky. Bern, baby, Bern, disco inferno (y)
I think that theory is full of holes, and a little cheesy.
Hellslinki, nice!
The road to Helsinki is paved within ice indentations.
I think puns should be more intuitive than this.
MaxArt is tick’d: license to be opunionated.
{Sucks he couldn’t get intu-it a little better.}
Steven Wright: I met this wonderful girl at Macy’s. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator.
… and she’s buying a stairway to Hades.
♫♪ There’s a pun on the wall but she googles to be sure
Because you know sometimes words have two meanings ♪♫
Led into temptation …
double your meaning, double your puns,
double your helix, double your hellions –
less sugar, less fun,
moral-less lass tryin’ it,
more or less devilish Tridents.
Eukary-ote a lot of entendre in that spring-y little tune…
hee … ευ κάρυον,* my wayward kitty.
Does it make me weird that I did not get the visual pun until I looked at the title and knew the capital of Finland without looking it up?
Nope – just left-brained or somethin’.
That took me a while to get.
But it’s HelSINki, not HelsLINki
Do you have a H url slink to that?
(H – url’y not getting the whole “pun” thing.)
i’m not an idiot, yeah, i get the whole “pun” thing. when they fucking make sense.
pun
[puhn]
–noun
1. the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
Linus Torvalds will see you in Hell, slinky market-gouging operating systems!
Mwah-ha-ha-ha-haaaa!!!
it doesn’t matter for americans, we europeans don’t have to know the capital of california (sacremento, i guess)
I thought it was hell bent or something like that hahah
The really twisted ones work on so many levels (of Hell)…
One could argue a second pun about the devil’s playthings, as well
(The devil totally has a Slinky, but I think he’s more into playing Monopoly…)
Devil’s plaything / in my hands
If you don’t want fun / you don’t understand
Got a light / springy thing
If you wanna have fun / come play with me
/filk
♫♪ See the spring/ in my hand
If you’re flaming down stairs/ You’re playing in Hell ♪♫
*kittydanzi(n)g*
The capital of Finland is Helsinki! lol
too much of a stretch to be funny.
funny, I found it to be a snap back.I’ve been playing so much Brutal Legend lately the first thing that came to mind was the Tainted Coil actually.
And I thought is was just devilized twist on hot springs.
Give it a slinky Splat!
Don’t know how much healing and relaxation you could get out of those springs!
It really doesn’t make much sense unless you know that that flag is finland, and that the capital of finland is helsinki.
Plus the horns and tail are really misleading
- The caption regarding Finland is a hint.
(by way of which the inquisitive may initiate research)
- The flag coloring is also a hint, but not necessary to the conclusion.
(a lot of people probably don’t even notice it)
- Horns and a tail generally lead a lot of people to think of Hell.
So, no, you didn’t have to know all that. There are several people here who did not get the meaning at first, but took the effort to work it out, or even came up with their own funny interpretations. There are even some who admit they did not get it, but had fun with the joke after they saw an answer. On the other hand, you chose to whine about it.
Hell is what you make it, Bob.
Yeah, Bob. I mean, I never gave enough of a damn about A Few Good Men to watch it, so when the pun came up I said “to Hell with it”, and did something else for a while. (It was a great poster mock-up and I have nothing against the movie – just not my thing.)
I guess what I’m saying is, if you see people playing a game you don’t know, and you don’t care to learn what they find so amusing about it, just slink off somewhere and play with – er, by – yourself.
*dives into crunchy paper bag*
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ll admit, I had to think about that one for a moment.
picture. title. … think… title… Helsinki?…
*facepalm*
Good one.
Which reminds me of a diabolical springtime I had. It sort of stretched my patience a bit.
It wasn’t a spring break, was it?
I wouldn’t call it that; it was more like a bouncing nightmare which emerged so suddenly. I couldn’t believe the elasticity of fate that has come upon me.
Wow. Lucky you could spring back into shape after that. Those bad experiences just make you want to coil up and hide somewhere.
Usually I twist “Helsinki” to “Sinkin´-in-Hell” (I live in Middle Finland)
if you have to explain your pun.. its not a very clever pun…
Maybe it’s all that Sesame Street I used to watch, but I think it’s fun to learn new things while you’re laughing…
Helsinki I’m finnish
I think SMP needs subtitles or something. I, being Brazilian, took quite some time to find out that’s a slinky depicted in the picture.
at first, i thought it was Spring Fever…
This was my first thought of Finland (ear worm alert!)
Yea, I thought ‘devil’ instead of ‘hell’ too. )=
So much for most people’s ideas of brainless puns. I actually had to read the comments to get it. It’s early for me, cut me some slack!
Hello, kittenish high halfling. May you be abundantly blessed with Slack.
(You have no need to apologize – the Society commends all who happily use their brains. It is a much more productive pursuit than getting all twisted up and slinking around being mad as Hell about it.)
eehhhh it kinda works…. lol
Dang…I’m an American, and I got the pun right away! I like it – it’s silly!
As a finn, this does (not) amuse me -_-
Hah hah haa! Hellslinky! Oh, that’s funny as hell. And I’m from Finland,
and I still find this very funny. And FYI, everyone, the capital of Finland
is Helsinki. Hellslinky. So everybody, who thinks that this isn’t a pun but
a political joke, you’re all idiots. Well, can’t blame you americans for not
knowing this. There’s actualy a TV-commercial playing here in Finland
showing a finish man interviewing americans and asking them, if they
know what’s the capital of Finland. Nobody knows. But I bet there are
some americans who DO know what is the capital, and I salute you all,
but my point is, that most americans should totally take their lessons
about Europe. I mean, Finland, people oughta know is atleast about
three things. One, Paavo Nurmi, the “flying finn”. Two, sisu, we won the
fucking russians in WWII by OURSELVES!!! And three, SANTA CLAUSE!!!
And if not that, then four, Mika Häkkinen and Kimi Räikkönen.
Oh what a tango web they weave, when the Finnish dance like Argentines!
(Someone’s trying to start a Fenno-scandal-ian incident.)
Be nice, Noogai – we’re not all idiots. It’s just that the hard-headed Americans are also the loudest Americans sometimes. I’m sure you get some of that there too.
(besides, I’m sure there are Finns that would disagree with your “sporting” priorities for national pride as well… and you’re likely to start a hellfire-worthy flame war by claiming Santa Claus!)
I’m American, and I not only know what the capitol of Finland is, I know how to pronounce it correctly- and I already knew about the russians and santa claus, but paavo nurmi is someone I’m going to look up. Do you know the capitol of Georgia, USA? It’s okay if you don’t, it’s way over-rated! I saw the northern lights in Oulu one night, and they took my breath away!!
I was gonna say “Idle hands are the devil’s playground” but what do I know
You know how to say “The Hell with it” and play your own game.
I don’t necessarily want to share that i didn’t know what “slinkis” are named but rather was interested to see what kind of weird-ass avatar i’d get.
I like the finnish of that slinky, it kinda springs up on you.
Well, as i Finn…I enjoy this pun!
And we do own Santa, everyone knows He lives in Lapland, Rovaniemi XD
See were far more pagan than the northpole!
Thanks, Mel, for the Mapquest reference to Santa’s house
… and for showing us that some Finns do belong on his “Nice” list!
All the metal fans love Hell Slinky.
I didn’t get it either until my friend explained it to me. It shows the flag of Finland… The capital of Finland is Helsinki… Hell-slinky because it is a slinky in hell
After Sliky-ing home from a day of pure hell, Bob Coiled up next to a warm fire.
I can’t believe in all this time nobody has mentioned the flag is completely inaccurate! Everyone knows the dimensions are 11×18 and the blue should be 3 wide. This flag isn’t even 2 wide. No wonder the pun is so confusing.
LOL JUST KIDDING! I laughed out loud at the pun, laughing and booing, it was so funny. So sorry the author took so much L over his extra L! You really shouldn’t be Punnished this way. At least you weren’t sent to a Punitentiary!
Okay, I’m Finnished!