BS: What do Russians know?

Subject: BS: What do Russians know?
From: beardedbruce
Date: 29 Jun 07 - 01:10 PM

"The resolution terminating the mandate of the U.N. bodies responsible for overseeing the dismantling of Saddam's programs to develop nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and long-range missiles was approved by a vote of 14-0.

Russia abstained, saying there was still "no clear answer to the existence of weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070629/ap_on_re_mi_ea/un_iraq_weapons_inspectors

Subject: RE: BS: What do Russians know?
From: GUEST,Gza
Date: 29 Jun 07 - 01:23 PM

They probably figure that the Americans are hiding some in there... (grin)

Subject: RE: BS: What do Russians know?
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jun 07 - 02:03 PM

Well, they can speak Russian and I can't, for one thing.

Subject: RE: BS: What do Russians know?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 29 Jun 07 - 02:19 PM

I tried translating a Russian tech document once (using a dictionary and other aids). It's all Greek to me.

I found a German translation but it was all Deutsch.

I decided to wait for the movie to come out.

John

Subject: RE: BS: What do Russians know?
From: GUEST,Peter Woodruff
Date: 29 Jun 07 - 05:37 PM

Ya nyez nyou.

Peter

Subject: RE: BS: What do Russians know?
From: van lingle
Date: 29 Jun 07 - 06:21 PM

"Emaaargency, everybody to get from stritt!"

Subject: RE: BS: What do Russians know?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 29 Jun 07 - 06:24 PM

LLOL! I just busted out, it was from the hindbrain without going through my brain!
I was thinking How to get through the winter even though alcohol opens your pores...

Subject: RE: BS: What do Russians know?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 29 Jun 07 - 06:26 PM

Q.What do Russians know?


A. The Cyrillic Alphabet?

Subject: RE: BS: What do Russians know?
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jun 07 - 06:34 PM

So, there I was, a senior in college and getting ready to graduate and it turns out I have $150 in library fines. Being a typical college student and well versed in the art, I cowered before the librarian and begged, pleaded, and otherwise manfully discussed the issue.

"You've had Cataloging," said he. "Suppose I forgive the fines if you catalog a few books for us?"

"Great!" said I, not smelling the rat. "I'll be in tomorrow."

And so, the next day, I arrived bright and early, all set to spend a couple hours helping out the catalogers (one of who I was dating) and then whip off to the beach or whatever.

The stack awaited. And there were only six books.

Six books. Written in Russian and printed in Cyrillic!!

I questioned his sanity to his face (actually, he was and is a friend.)

"You speak Russian, don't you?" he asked innocently. "I've seen you with a Russian dictionary."

Mind you, other than English the school only taught Spanish, French, and German....

"Yes," I admitted. "but I was only fooling around!"

"Well," said he, "get started or pay the hundred and fifty bucks."

You know what? I did it. Using the skills I'd been taught by that very man, I did it. And this being long before the days of computer catalogs, I hand wrote the cataloging slips up and left them for the catalogers to check.

I hand wrote them in Cyrillic.

And the next day two catalogers descended upon me with the utmost wrath, and then upon the college librarian AND me, for neither of THEM spoke or read cyrillic and yes, there probably WASN'T a cyrillic typewriter in the whole damned town!

Meekly (although internally satisfied), I transliterated the cyrillic....

Subject: RE: BS: What do Russians know?
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 29 Jun 07 - 11:08 PM

That don't sound nothin' like what I woulda flippin' done. You are one wierd dude, Rapaire!

- Shane

Subject: RE: BS: What do Russians know?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 29 Jun 07 - 11:45 PM

Rapaire

You Da Man!


"What do Russians know?"

Well, having been to a Russian Easter Feast, I can tell you that they know how to cook...

Subject: RE: BS: What do Russians know?
From: gnu
Date: 30 Jun 07 - 01:05 PM

Can't beet it?

Subject: RE: BS: What do Russians know?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 Jun 07 - 04:12 PM

Reminds me of a story that is technically thread creep, but I always thought the Serbs used the Cyrillic alphabet and the Russians, the Russian alphabet, so I'm telling it...
My mom (newly arrived after WWII from a cyrillic-spelling part of Yugoslavia)'s first job was shelving books, which she did (a) right to left because she's dyslexic, and (b) alphabetically according to Cyrillic - which starts off ABDG... didn't last, that job!

Subject: RE: BS: What do Russians know?
From: Jim Lad
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 05:23 AM

They know that the Americans have never been to the moon either.

Subject: RE: BS: What do Russians know?
From: beardedbruce
Date: 09 Jul 07 - 11:58 AM

Kosovo appeals to U.S. for independence date

By Fatos Bytyci
Mon Jul 9, 8:26 AM ET



PRISTINA, Serbia (Reuters) - Kosovo appealed to the United States on Monday to set a date for the province's independence from Serbia, saying Russia had blocked its path through the United Nations.

Kosovo's ethnic Albanian prime minister, Agim Ceku, said a "new approach" was needed. He again hinted at a unilateral declaration of independence after eight years under U.N. stewardship.

"Because of Russian resistance, the U.N. Security Council is unable to take a decision on Kosovo's status," Ceku said in his weekly address on Kosovo public radio.

Ceku recalled comments by U.S. President George W. Bush in Albania on June 10, when he said the West would act "sooner rather than later" if Serb ally Russia continued to block Kosovo's secession at the United Nations.

"President Bush said that one day we should say 'enough is enough'," Ceku said.

"This enough should have a date. We need a clear calendar, a clear date and a clear way to resolve Kosovo's status."

Kosovo's 2 million Albanians, 90 percent of the population, are growing increasingly impatient for statehood, eight years since NATO bombs drove out Serb forces accused of atrocities and the United Nations took control.

But Russia has slammed the brakes on Western efforts to steer its secession through the U.N. Security Council.

The United States has indicated it would support a unilateral declaration of independence, but the European Union is concerned the fragile unity among its 27 members would crumble without the legal basis of a U.N. resolution.

Ceku was due to meet in Pristina on Monday with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried.

Fried is expected to discuss Western plans to restart talks between Serbia and the Kosovo Albanians in a bid to overcome Russian opposition to independence.

France has proposed six months of dialogue, and a draft U.N. resolution is expected to call for at least 150 days, diplomats say. More than a year of talks ended in March in stalemate.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov repeated on Monday in Bishkek that Moscow would only support a solution acceptable to both Serbia and Kosovo.

Serbia rejects independence for land cherished by many Serbs as their spiritual heartland. Almost a million Albanians were expelled during Serbia's 1998-99 war against Albanian rebels.

Subject: RE: BS: What do Russians know?
From: Joe_F
Date: 09 Jul 07 - 10:38 PM

Russians know my email address. They continually offer me opportunities to invest in Moscow real estate.

Subject: RE: BS: What do Russians know?
From: GUEST,TIA
Date: 10 Jul 07 - 12:01 AM

Smartest damn kid in the world is living in my basement right now.

Russian.

Does the dishes every night too.