Fun with a Finn

Way back on December 1, 2006, this humble blog reported on the romantic shenanigans of the Finnish Prime Minister.

To refresh your memory: HELSINKI, Finland (Reuters) -- Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen, dubbed Finland's sexiest man, broke up by text message with the girlfriend he had met on the Internet, she said in a magazine interview."Matti dumped me in a text message, where he said 'that's it,'" Susan Kuronen told the magazine Me Naiset (Us Women) in an interview published on Friday.

I still can’t get past the idea of the sexiest man in the country being the Prime Minister. If I try to think of Stephen Harper that way I get a migraine. Anyway…

There’s an update on naughty dumping-by-text-message Matti and it is quite juicy.

From the Times of London: The former lover of Finland’s Prime Minister was today cleared by a court of any wrongdoing for publishing a steamy kiss-and-tell memoir which revealed how he wooed her with baked potatoes and dumped her by text message.

(Editor’s Note: Wooed her with baked potatoes?….the mind boggles. )

The two lovebirds had many secret rendezvous and the book detailed the PM’s romantic side. “He kisses so passionately that the car windows were steamed up,” she wrote.

(Editor's Note: I’m still thinking Steve Harper here. Oh god.)

After having sex, the Prime Minister usually wanted beef and potatoes, she wrote. He especially liked them baked. “Once, when he kissed me, he said that I tasted better than oven-baked potato,” Miss Ruusunen wrote. “That was great.”

(Editor's Note: I’m speechless.)