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arib ([personal profile] arib) wrote2005-01-25 11:04 am

I think I'm losing my mind...

So, while at Arisia, there was a lot of conversation about the huge amounts of snowfall, and how the city was handling things poorly. One person commented, "When I lived in Moscow, they'd take the snow and dump it in the river."

My immediate reaction (thankfully in my head and not out loud) was, "In Soviet Russia, snow dumps *you* in river!"

Help.

[identity profile] nsingman.livejournal.com 2005-01-25 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
That sounds like you were channeling Yakov Smirnoff:

"The Soviet Express Card. Don't leave home." :-)

[identity profile] bikergeek.livejournal.com 2005-01-25 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
yup. since copied on Slashdot, fark.com, and elsewhere.

[identity profile] arib.livejournal.com 2005-01-25 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
AYBABTU?

(The thing is, based on the age of the speaker, she probably made her comment based on experiences *actually living in Soviet Russia*...)

Snowed in

[identity profile] cristovau.livejournal.com 2005-01-25 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Throughout the blizzard, my thoughts were on Arisia, but the best I could come up with was, "Here, you get trapped in the convention by snow. In Soviet Russia, you get trapped in snow convention."

You win...