Paughfan212 here checking in from Helsinki, Finland! This city is pretty self-aware and chic, and any paugh has eluded me. I will be spending time in more rural cities, though, and I'll keep an eye out and a camcorder handy for anything that pops up! Paughfan212 out.
Okay, I am really bad at capturing paugh in the moment, but here is a recap of what I have witnessed. (Tonight is my last night in Hesinki; returning to Americaugh tomorrow):
-Lou Vega's "Mambo #5" played twice on the "Hits" radio station. -A Conference Bike flying down the street at the Pori Jazz Festival. -Finns doing salsa dancing to a Finnish band playing Cuban music (actually quite good, but the Nordic skeletal structures resulted in some paughstures of note).
I'm positive I witnessed more, but I fear I am not keen enough an observer to make a good field reporter. At least this confirms that paugh is alive and kicking in Finland even two or three decades after the heyday of Finnish Music Video paugh. I mean, if an aloof and unobservant fellow like myself can note those three things, just think of what an eagle-eyed paughspotter could find!
The intent of this website it so educate the populous on the existence of paugh, illustrate how to identify paugh, and if you are paugh, show you how to embrace it.
"Paugh" was first discovered during a viewing of the movie "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels." Steve Martin's "Ruprecht" character helped form the original inspiration for Paugh as we know it today. It was only discussed in small circles until 2000 when Josh Teague publicly imitated Ruprecht and experienced paugh first hand. He mentally documented the experience though was not fully able to develop a full understanding of paugh by himself. In 2003 Josh presented his findings to his fellow researchers of the world Michael R. Nelson and William H. Mather. Over the next three years these great minds developed a greater understanding of the phenomenon of paugh and began documenting it visually. In January of 2005, paugh went to the public in the form of this website. Since then, Mike, Josh, and Will have conscripted the noble paugh theologians Leon O. Fowler,Jeremy Z. Van Hill, and Brett Q. Gilbert to help build to the paugh research database. This website is a product of their labor, finding, illustrating, and sometimes creating paugh for the greater good of the world. May god bless their work.
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Paughfan212 here checking in from Helsinki, Finland! This city is pretty self-aware and chic, and any paugh has eluded me. I will be spending time in more rural cities, though, and I'll keep an eye out and a camcorder handy for anything that pops up! Paughfan212 out.
Finnish paugh! Seek, find, and relay!
Okay, I am really bad at capturing paugh in the moment, but here is a recap of what I have witnessed. (Tonight is my last night in Hesinki; returning to Americaugh tomorrow):
-Lou Vega's "Mambo #5" played twice on the "Hits" radio station.
-A Conference Bike flying down the street at the Pori Jazz Festival.
-Finns doing salsa dancing to a Finnish band playing Cuban music (actually quite good, but the Nordic skeletal structures resulted in some paughstures of note).
I'm positive I witnessed more, but I fear I am not keen enough an observer to make a good field reporter. At least this confirms that paugh is alive and kicking in Finland even two or three decades after the heyday of Finnish Music Video paugh. I mean, if an aloof and unobservant fellow like myself can note those three things, just think of what an eagle-eyed paughspotter could find!
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