Last night, on a snowy Saturday evening after preparing delicious gingerbread dough, I watched Uutisvuoto [engl. 'newsleak']. The guests this time were journalist-hostess Jenni Pääskysaari and journalist-actor Eppu Salminen and they speculated on politicians’ Christmas wishes and “What’s the best in being a woman”. Well, I didn’t concentrate on those speculations but what made me glue myself to the couch was: Mona Lisa’s eyes.

They brought up the discovery about Mona Lisa’s mysterious expression. Inspiring the conspiracy theorists, “experts say the barely distinguishable letters and numbers represent something of a real-life Da Vinci code“.
Probably it’s just a pareidolia – psychological phenomenon in which you interprete an image or sound to resemble something significant – but of course it’s fun to imagine what the famous Italian artist wanted to say via Mona Lisa’s eyes.

Anyway, in the show Jenni pointed out:
- There you have once more an evidence of how men think they can find a message in women’s eyes, a secret code that doesn’t even exist.
The humorist-author Jari Tervo took eye-contact with Jenni:
- Oh, quite so. Jenni, look over here.. There’s something in your eyes, they say ‘no’ and ‘no way’.

Yes, I know that some/most of NDH’s loyal followers don’t understand Finnish, but here you are – have a taste of Finnish humor, which might taste like my home-made gingerbread topped with burned sugar…

Uutisvuoto – charade (guests: sports journalist Inka Henelius, artist Michael Monroe)