Proshyai, Boris Nikolayevich!

[Pua'i Mana'o]

Re: Proshyai, Boris Nikolayevich!

Just wondering but what's with the Princess Bride quotes have to do with the death of Yeltsin? Was he a fan of the movie?

Tis best I own up to it. With the Russian lesson my twisted sense of humor found inspiration. Lei picked up on it, and together we cheerily took Yeltsin's ashes and headed straight for Neptune.

And that, my friends, is how to kill off a thread.

[Lei Liko]

Re: Proshyai, Boris Nikolayevich!

Okay, I can't believe I'm actually admitting this, but I thought he already died.

*throws my B.A. in Political Science and History in the rubbish*

Ay yi yi.

[Pua'i Mana'o]

Re: Proshyai, Boris Nikolayevich!

...I take that back.

The Other Lei™ gets the dubious honor of killing it.

[helen]

Re: Proshyai, Boris Nikolayevich!

Eh Helen, how you fix da spoiler? It wasn't working for me again. When I came back to this thread I saw my old one worked and was like whoa man, it wen go fix itself, trippy! Then I noticed the edit note on it.

I used the indent tag around your spoiler tag. You are more than welcome to try it out in this thread.

[Leo Lakio]

Re: Proshyai, Boris Nikolayevich!

Good lord.

And I thought my mind went off on twisted spirals.

I concede: the drugs of your respective youths were better than mine. Or at least had more long-lasting effects.

[waioli kai]

Re: Proshyai, Boris Nikolayevich!

How about "korova" & "medved" - cow and bear?

Thirty years since my last of four semesters of the language together next to never using speaking or reading including now, I will only venture to say (in American English) that Yeltsin "leading" Russia compared to Gorbachev leading Russia was/is similar to Bush leading the United States compared to Carter leading the United States, except for the fact that the comparison does a disservice to Yeltsin in that he did not permanently handicap Russia any where near the way Bush has the United States.