<HTML>In a message dated 3/2/2003 10:49:13 PM Pacific Standard Time, chrisd@russiajournal.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> ...and that no one on the staff knows Russian, and that they were too provincially American to ask what they words meant? God bless American, man. Doug </BLOCKQUOTE> Now see, suppose I am a junior flunkie working for Leno. I think war is a dumb idea. I studied enough Russian to know what the shirt says including wangling someone into telling me the F-word part. Do I speak up? Maybe not! Maybe I suspect other people share my sympathies. It's in Russian, so I have plausible deniability..... and if I rationalize any harder I could justhead off to spy school..... Meanwhile if I were Tatu's marketers, I would hurry up and get some Tonight Show shirts to market! Making my own just wouldn't be any fun. DoreneC</HTML>