tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post3512314159135436019..comments2024-03-11T08:28:30.817+00:00Comments on No Good Boyo: Salem's KnotNo Good Boyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05859104068516964533noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-47595974229764073152011-06-12T10:10:09.159+00:002011-06-12T10:10:09.159+00:00And I was under impression that its' strictly ...And I was under impression that its' strictly forbidden to interpret Lenin's works in Oxford. My mistake then, but I thought the works are served neat, no ice...SnoopyTheGoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00920565522498918323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-68316303661997275792011-04-15T21:11:57.676+00:002011-04-15T21:11:57.676+00:00It's an enduring image, Pop. I like to think h...It's an enduring image, Pop. I like to think he had a medal concealing his twin satellites.No Good Boyohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05859104068516964533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-34468026099045764222011-04-15T17:09:36.587+00:002011-04-15T17:09:36.587+00:00It was also rumoured that when Gagarin opened up h...It was also rumoured that when Gagarin opened up his trench-coat, he'd call to any passing fermales, "Ere darlin', fancy a piece of The Right Stuff?"Ian Plenderleithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08512357220650578961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-36876641319627580032011-04-13T10:27:50.238+00:002011-04-13T10:27:50.238+00:00You're right Gaw that it's odd Khrushchev ...You're right Gaw that it's odd Khrushchev has such a modernist tombstone, especially one sculpted by Ernest Neizvestny, whose work Khrushchev had criticised. <br /><br />It was at the request of the old boy's family, apparently, as Khrushchev had brought them up to be all fancy.<br /><br />Just like Kinnock's son going to Oxford and heading the British Council in St Petersburg when his old man had scrapped a pass at Cardiff at the second attempt and celebrated in a gutter.<br /><br />Plenty of reasons for sending certain people into space, young Master Roofing. Less incentive to bring many of them back again.No Good Boyohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05859104068516964533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-58906510680421077982011-04-13T09:43:17.959+00:002011-04-13T09:43:17.959+00:00It is not yet obvious that there are things we can...It is not yet obvious that there are things we can do in space better by sending people up there than by sending up only our machines. So far, the only thing that human spaceflight is uniquely capable of doing is demonstrating the possibilities of human spaceflight. But there is sufficient interest, and thus sufficient political and economic support, that we will continue to send up modest numbers of space travellers in Yuri Gagarin's footsteps. Over time we may find new reasons to send up people in more than modest numbers.Atlanta Roofinghttp://www.hotfrog.com/Companies/Atlanta-Roofing-Resourcesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-52597373396955492462011-04-13T08:22:40.146+00:002011-04-13T08:22:40.146+00:00Arf! very much. And with an impressive Gibbonian s...Arf! very much. And with an impressive Gibbonian sweep (as the satisfied client of the monkey-staffed flue cleaning company remarked).<br /><br />You've reminded me of the monument sitting atop Khrushchev's grave in Novodevichy Monastir: I recall his smiling but disembodied head sits playfully suspended in an abstract arrangement of variously shaped black and white blocks. Quite impressively irreverent and avant garde - representative of the man as well, in a way. They were a funny old bunch of peasants (deadly too, of course).Gareth Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05058241057385364459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-72022972523790009252011-04-13T05:58:23.492+00:002011-04-13T05:58:23.492+00:00Flashing, like most things involving your nads tha...Flashing, like most things involving your nads that don't come under the category of "enhanced interrogation technique", has been illegal since the days of Stalin, GB. <br /><br />In the 1920s flashers were considered to be vapid individualists who had to be integrated into the collective, hence experiments like the Pskov Synchronised Self-Exposure Brigade, who would practice four-part flashing in front of policewomen's parades. <br /><br />By 1934 they were deployed as sleepers on the Turksib Railway.<br /><br />As for circumcision, your distant relative Edward Gibbon certainly thought so when he imagined Islam being taught at Oxford rather than Marx. He was only a couple of centuries out.<br /><br />Ah, the Genius of the Carpathians, Gadjo! Mind you, and not wanting to disparage our Hutsul cousins, it's never been difficult to claim genius status along the pine-clad slopes of the Borgo Pass. <br /><br />Stalin's attitude to family life was clearly "the family can stay together, as long as it's Magadan Forced Penal Colony No.456".No Good Boyohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05859104068516964533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-48669627253814101062011-04-13T04:49:06.798+00:002011-04-13T04:49:06.798+00:00Commie dictator as Messiah almost worked over here...Commie dictator as Messiah almost worked over here in Romania, but Comrade 'Titan of Titans' Ceasescu was simply too obsessed with family values, and at the end of the day nobody is going to believe that a dad is going to save the human race (<i>cf</i> Jesus, Batman, Michael Jackson.... batchelors all.)Gadjo Dilohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08998278830936531990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-45746910077458291232011-04-12T23:32:50.900+00:002011-04-12T23:32:50.900+00:00Has flashing ever been illegal in Russia? Somehow,...Has flashing ever been illegal in Russia? Somehow, it doesn't seem like the sort of thing that would fluster a Russian woman. <br /><br />Did you mean "circumcised people" in the last sentence? Historically speaking they've been keener on revealed truths than the uncut.Gorilla Bananashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13044093013423635830noreply@blogger.com