Re: All day they lie on the beach and watch television2

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They listen not to wild jazz, but to the interesting lectures of Professor Schultz.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 10-12-06 9:41 PM
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Woot! Uncultured people who smoke in trollybusses, never wash, and steal pencils from work! Plus, bonus bad conduct in parks? Sign me up.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 10-12-06 9:44 PM
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Following the sponsored links at the bottom of that page, I came across this (nsfw).


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 10-12-06 9:44 PM
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I came across this (nsfw)

Ahem.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 10-12-06 9:48 PM
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?????? ???!


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 10-12-06 9:54 PM
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Why yes, I also read languagehat.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 10-12-06 9:57 PM
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3: That is, without question, one of the very, very best photographs of all time. Only two words in the English language could possibly add to the greatness of that photo, and those words are "caption contest."


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 10-12-06 10:55 PM
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But of course, if such a contest were to be held, the New Yorker caption would be the obvious winner.


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 10-12-06 10:55 PM
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You got a point, teo?


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 10-13-06 2:06 AM
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Okay, the link to the Russian textbook got censored by my firm's netnanny software. Was it NSFW, or is the netnanny smoking silicon crack?


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 10-13-06 7:42 AM
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That was the textbook we used when I took Russian in college!

Though I may forget everything else, I think I will always remember how to say "Shockworkers live well" in Russian.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 10-13-06 8:05 AM
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I took just a single semester of Russian in college (my only class of my final semester), and all I remember beyond hello, goodbye, and thank you are the words for cockroach and Martian.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 10-13-06 8:11 AM
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10: The link itself is okay, but from that page one can depart for a romp in the NSFW Russian countryside, as apo's #3 demonstrates.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 10-13-06 8:49 AM
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My favorite phrase from my high school Russian class translates as: "A new tablecloth is a joy to the wife!"
And what's with all the Loafer hatin'?


Posted by: Tassled Loafered Leech | Link to this comment | 10-13-06 10:24 AM
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Leech is on the beach wearing his tuxedo right now, saying "Kul man".


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 10-13-06 10:46 AM
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I think I've mentioned this before, but all the old-school "Learn Chinese" textbooks printed in the People's Republic are rife with conversations where everyone addresses each other as "comrade" (tongzhi).

But these days, the only people in China who use the word tongzhi are gay men referring to fellow homosexuals.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 10-13-06 11:40 AM
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