From: Alexander Sychev <santucco@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] [OT] interesting hardware project for gsoc
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 11:49:15 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.t7hhgdx2hipq0d@santucco> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47CC4F12.50107@Princeton.EDU>
It's just a quite popular joke in Russia.
Actually, in the Russian army such kind a "humor" really takes a place.
For example:
"dig a ditch from the fence till the dusk"
On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:18:42 +0300, Martin Harriss <martin@Princeton.EDU>
wrote:
> Alexander Sychev wrote:
>> In the Russian army:
>>
>> Sgt.: Who is a painter here?
>> Soldier: I'm the painter.
>> Sgt.: Well, take this axe and draw me a stack of firewood in the
>> morning.
>
> That one sounds like it was written by Milligan.
>
> Martin
--
Best regards,
santucco
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-03 6:32 Skip Tavakkolian
2008-03-03 8:49 ` Alexander Sychev
2008-03-03 19:18 ` Martin Harriss
2008-03-04 8:49 ` Alexander Sychev [this message]
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