[lbo-talk] AK-47 vodka

[Carl Remick]

>From: Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>
>
>joanna bujes jbujes at covad.net:
>
>Chris Doss wrote:
>
> >Nu, zayats, pogodi!
> >
>What does that mean?
>
>Joanna
>
>Its meaningless if you aren't in the fSU, but cool and
>retro if you are. :) It's what the wolf says to the
>rabbit in the classic Soviet kid's cartoon Nu, Pogodi!
>after he files down, thwarted by his bouncing quarry:
>"Hey, rabbit, hold on a second!" It's a tag line like
>"What's up, doc?" Soviet cartoons are great.
>
>E.g., from a movie database site:
>
>User Comments:
>
>sunlion
>Riga, Latvia
>
>Date: 28 January 2004
>Summary: Funny in a childish but smart way
>
>Cartoon IS funny. One comment said that the
>"Roadrunner" was the "Nu pogodi!" creators aim. It was
>not. And anyone who thinks that unnoying loud bird
>blowing someone up again and again and agonizingly
>again in exactly the same manner until you have a
>kneejeark reaction is funny, should simply go back to
>kindergarten....

Pass me the milk and graham crackers then, because I find the Roadrunner 
cartoons very funny.  Wile E. Coyote does not get blown up by the Roadrunner 
"again and again and agonizingly again in exactly the same manner."  He gets 
blown up in a rich, never-ending variety of ways due to his own misfiring 
machinations (always with the help, of course, of glitch-prone, 
state-of-the-art gadgetry from Acme Corporation).  Sunlion of Riga, Latvia, 
fails to appreciate the deep Sisyphean tragedy of the Roadrunner cartoons -- 
no matter how fiendishly clever Wile E. Coyote is, he will never get the 
Roadrunner and will always himself be the victim of his own snares.

Quite an allegory for certain large nations I can think of.

Carl

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