Kotlovan: such'ya zazhimka

[nataliek at UALBERTA.CA]

With apologies to the list, I permit myself an old joke:

Gorbachev chlen partii?
Net.  Gorbachev um partii.  Likhachev chlen partii.

Quoting William Ryan <wfr at SAS.AC.UK>:

> Certainly 'member' in this sense is in use outside the field of
> lexicography - it is an ancient source of double entendre for British
> comedians, often in the context of  'Members of Parliament'. The
> Russian equivalent double entendre often involves the Academy of
> Sciences (e.g. Why are flocks of sheep counted 'po golovam', but the
> Academy of Sciences  'po chlenam').
>
> Will Ryan
>
>
Natalie Kononenko
Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography
University of Alberta
Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
200 Arts Building
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E6
Phone: 780-492-6810
Web: http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/uvp/

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