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[Feb. 27th, 2008|03:45 pm] |
А few days ago in Turkmenistan, a huge black cockroach scuttled across an anchor's desk during the 9pm news broadcast. This unsightly disturbance on the main state television channel cost about thirty people their jobs.
Expert.ru reports that the cockroach was repressed. |
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[Feb. 26th, 2008|04:02 pm] |
My boy brought home a box of Belgian chocolates yesterday. All the pieces in it were named after locales. One of the two foil-wrapped pieces in the box was called... "leper." Until I finally made the connection with Ypres, I was sort of apprehensive about unwrapping it. I blame this squarely on ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) hortensio and his candied lepers.
Bloody hilarious Russian song of the day: "Раскуси-ка бабушка..." |
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[Nov. 10th, 2006|10:39 pm] |
This cartoon? Freaking funny. If you don't think so, I don't know you.
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[Nov. 5th, 2006|11:51 pm] |
Finally found a clip of probably the funniest "A Bit of Fry and Laurie" sketch ever. One wonders how they both didn't choke holding in the laughs. Not coincidentally, it's also probably the closest Stephen has ever got to doing away with pretense altogether and jumping Hugh right in front of the cameras. |
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[Nov. 5th, 2006|12:02 pm] |
Hey hamsterwoman! Check out these latinskie narodnye skazki!
REPULA
Posadivit Dedus repulam. Exrastivit repula magna-praemagna. Venit Dedus repulam extanure: tanet-potanet, extanure non potest.
Vocavit Dedus Babulam. Babula post Dedulum, Dedulus post repulam, extanure non possunt.
Vocavit Babula Vnuculam. Vnucula post Babulam, Babula post Dedulum, Dedulus post repulam, extanure non possunt.
Vocavit Vnucula Zuculam. Zucula post Vnuculam, Vnucula post Babulam, Babula post Dedulum, Dedulus post repulam, extanure non possunt.
Vocavit Zucula Cotulam. Cotula post Zuculam, Zucula post Vnuculam, Vnucula post Babulam, Babula post Dedulum, Dedulus post repulam, extanure non possunt.
Vocavit Cotula Misculam. Miscula post Cotulam, Cotula post Zuculam, Zucula post Vnuculam, Vnucula post Babulam, Babula post Dedulum, Dedulus post repulam, ecce, extanuverunt! |
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[Nov. 3rd, 2006|01:25 pm] |
It's the third day of NaNoWriMo, and I think for today's session, I'll be taking Yemeni back up to his room for some light reading and heavy thinking.
To all the Russian-speakers reading this, go and check out this post, with particular attention to the last story. It is several kinds of hilarious. One doesn't even really know why - yes, the situation was funny, but mostly what got to me was that despite its utter hilarity, the tone of the story seems to be calm and even slightly melancholic.
It reminds me somewhat of Mihail Zhvanetzky's manner of reading his own monologues: whereas other comedians tend to play up the jokes, he simply reads the text in a bored-sounding monotone, making only very slight emphasis on the jokes he likes best. (And since they are almost always not the jokes the audience finds best, this leads to odd pauses in the delivery.) |
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[Oct. 19th, 2006|05:32 pm] |
Listening to the 3rd episode of "Saturday Night Fry" for the n-th time, and I just have to share this marvelous bit:
Stephen Fry: "Now, I wonder how many of you remember last week's competition..."
Jim Broadbent: "I do."
S: "I was talking to our audience, Jim. Uhgm... uhm. Now, only three got all the answers right, which were: one, Tchaikovsky, Oscar Wilde, Shakespeare and Benjamin Britton; two, 40% of the House of Commons and 75% of the House of Lords; three, it was clause #29; four, staggering hypocrisy; and five, 'hideous restrictions on personal freedom of choice' was the correct form of words. Congratulations then to Jeremy Boyd Carpenter for getting them all right. Your prize of a bowl of a rather unpleasant tarry substance scraped from the lining of the immortal soul of a prominent Parliamentarian is on its way to you directly."
XD
(There was, of course, no contest of any kind in the previous episode - I suspect he was just venting a personal grievance.) |
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[Sep. 5th, 2006|06:11 pm] |
Found a video of an obscenely young Stephen Fry reading a hilarious take on Bram Stoker on Cambridge Footlights Revue in a variety of funny voices. The best thing about it is Stephen occasionally cracking up at his own wit. Silly, darling boy; you'll learn deadpan yet.
Gawd. Time, eh? How it flies. How it flies in your face and smears itself all over you.
Also, another Cambridge Footlights video of Fry and Laurie, not half a century between them yet, in a 21-second sketch that prophetically summed up their partnership for a decade to come.
Edit: It's amazing how differently time treats people. Laurie matured from a rather bland, piscine twenty-three into a fabulously sexy and virile fourty-seven. Fry, on the other hand, at twenty-five was as sexy as the Sphinx and looked like he was in on all the secrets of the Universe, his bent nose and sideways mouth only adding to the alien mystique. But he peaked quite soon afterward, sometime in his 30s.
We haven't seen Messrs. Fry and Laurie stand face to face for over a decade. I sure hope "House" can bring them together for an episode soon. It would be a curious sight, to be sure. |
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[Aug. 18th, 2006|01:38 pm] |
Heh heh.
It's the "Hezboys" WC that really makes me laugh, for some reason. |
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[Aug. 8th, 2006|03:41 pm] |
Best news article of the day.
"NEW YORK (Reuters) -- The claims of a tiger owner who sued New York city and police for searching his apartment without a warrant to confiscate his pet 450-pound Siberian tiger are tantamount to "chutzpah," a federal judge said in a ruling obtained Monday that dismissed the case.
U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein dismissed a lawsuit brought by Antoine Yates, whom authorities discovered in 2003 was hiding a 10-foot-long tiger named "Ming" and a 6-foot alligator called "Al" inside his fifth floor apartment."
( It gets better. ) |
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[Jul. 21st, 2006|09:25 am] |
It seems that the rumors of the death of political humor in Russia have been greatly exaggerated. Possibly in anticipation of the return of "sroka" (prison time) for the telling of political jokes, the new generation of Russians is revolutionizing the political anecdote.
( Click here to read the ramble and the footnotes thereto ) |
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[Jul. 14th, 2006|03:16 pm] |
Russian joke of the day:
- Сэр, мы перехватили электронную переписку русских контрразведчиков. Один из них сообщает, что наших агентов в Москве посетила толстая полярная лисичка. Что бы это значило?
- Лейтенант, хорошо, что с таким знанием русских реалий Вы не в Москве... Иначе Вам тоже пришёл бы полный песец! |
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