Joke/translation

[Alina Israeli]

In the vein of Michael's joke, there was one a while back:

Kuda poslat' pravitel'stvo: v? k? ili na?

This requires more than three years of Russian and I don't think it's 
easily translatable. But there are a lot of good crisis jokes, many of 
which are translatable.

Two homeless talking:
-Do you know any bankers?
-No.
-You will.

??? ?????? ???? ???????? ??? ??????? ?????? ? ????????? ?????? ????????? 
???? ?? ?????? ???? 


And many others.

AI

Katz, Michael wrote:
> Dear colleagues:
>
> One of my students (from Ufa) told me a witty joke that you may have already
> heard: 
>
> V zhizni muzhchiny est' chetyre etapa:
> 1) Eshche net!
> 2) Uzhe, da!
> 3) Eshche, da!
> 4) Uzhe net!
>
> I am trying to translate it in order to share it with my unfortunate,
> non-Russian speaking friends. I came up with the following rhyming replies:
>
> 1) Not yet!
> 2) You bet!
> 3) What for?
> 4) No more!
>
> Knowing how serious our last chain on Freud, S-M, and "khlysty" has been, I
> thought it time for something completely different. If anyone has ideas or
> suggestions for this amusing project, please post them to the list.
>
> Michael Katz
> Middlebury College
>
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Alina Israeli
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LFS, American University
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