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 |::| Thursday, July 11, 2002

 |::| Shooby-Shooby....  4:35:57 PM 

From Metafilter, a sample of deep musical strangeness that must be ... must be something -- celebrated, preserved, forgotton, expunged from the universe, I just don't know... see for yourself -- I listened, and it hasn't affected me WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU STARING AT? GO BACK TO PLUTO! WE DON'T NEED YOUR COWS HERE!!!

posted by 40 Watt » July 11 9:20 AM | 3 comments. Who the heck is Shooby Taylor?By all accounts, he is (or rather, was...it appears he's dead) a musical outsider, but one blessed with a truly bizarre style. Just take one listen to his...unique version of "Lift Every Voice and Sing"(warning: MP3 file, hilarious)... it's pure gold. And there's plenty more where that came from... [MetaFilter]

 |::| "Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev were all travelling together in a railway carriage...."  2:17:08 PM 

Ever wonder what kind of jokes Russians tell about Americans?

A Russian and an American are talking:
- When I'm in a good mood I drive a car painted a light color, says the American. When I'm busy or have a lot of troubles, I drive a darker colored car. When I go for vacation overseas, I pick a brightly colored car.
- Things are much easier in Russia, says the Russian. If you are in a good mood, they will give you a ride in yellow car with a blue stripe. If you feel bad, the car will be white and the stripe red. I was abroad only once, and there I drove a tank.

The political jokes are a little more stereotypically Russian:

A chairman asked Rabinowich why he skipped the last Party meeting.
-"I didn't know that meeting supposed to be the last one," he answered with a grin of surprise.

(Courtesy MetaFilter [thread], via Cam.)

ADDENDUM: These are a lot better:

A joke current in the USSR during the late 1930s - reprinted in an article on Soviet anecdotal humour in 1957:

A flock of sheep were stopped by frontier guards at the Russo-Finnish border. "Why do you wish to leave Russia?" the guards asked them. "It's the NKVD", replied the terrified sheep. "Beria's ordered them to arrest all elephants." "But you aren't elephants!" the guards pointed out. "Try telling that to the NKVD!"