Another reason to study Russian

[William Ryan]

George Kalbouss wrote:
>       ... I'm beginning to suspect that this ignorance of the past is 
> not only an American phenomenon, ...

That is certainly true - Britain can proudly boast that it is second to 
none in the ignorance stakes. Our sanity-saving satirical magazine 
Private Eye has a column giving prime specimens from radio and TV quiz 
shows. See Dumb Britain in Wikipedia, which has re-published some of the 
best - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumb_Britain

A nice example from Dumb Britain in the field of literature/film is:

    /The Weakest Link <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weakest_Link>,
    BBC2 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Two>/
    *Anne Robinson*: In which film did Harry Lime say 'In Switzerland
    they had brotherly love and they had 500 years of democracy and
    peace. And what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!'?
    *Contestant*: One Flew Over the Cuckoo Clock.


Will Ryan


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