Estonian Jokes
[Estonian Jokes, Volume I] is certainly the book to read while on the road particularly if you are on the road to Estonia. Yes, and to Latvia, too, because the Latvians have lived for some time under the false illusion that they invented all the jokes about Estonians. The Estonian-American writer P. A. Vesilind has compiled a book of jokes that Estonians tell and jokes about Estonians themselves. Some of the jokes may seem harsh, particularly those that poke fun at some of our lesser character traits; yet most of the harshness is balanced out by a healthy dose of self-irony and the ability to laugh at ourselves. Latvians would probably say that the Estonian simply stole all these jokes from the Finnish but that s just because the Latvians don t have any books like this. --Baltic Outlook, the in-flight magazine of airBaltic--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.