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I got lost in Fremont on my way home from lunch today and was stuck at an intersection next to this statue for a while:
I was thinking to myself, "Weird, that statue really looks like good ol' Vladimir Ilyich." When I got home I checked it out on Wikipedia and apparently it is! Seattle people sure are weird.
That reminds me of a funny scene in The Good Shepherd that I meant to mention yesterday but forgot. At one point the CIA spy is meeting with a KGB agent and a big scary looking bodyguard comes up to them and whispers something ominous-sounding in Russian, which if I recall correctly was something like "Я хочу купить сувенири для мои дочки" (apologies for my horrible Russian), which roughly means "I want to go buy some souvenirs for my daughters." You could tell which people in the audience knew Russian because we cracked up immediately. It was so unexpected and funny..
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December 27th, 2006 - 07:23
Are those people weird or visionaires?
Also, it would be “Я хочу купить сувениры для моих дочек”
I am surprised you still remember enough for that 5 years later, I all but forgot my spanish
December 27th, 2006 - 10:10
I guess they could be visionaries, but at this point wouldn’t we consider them to be “reverse visionaries” or something like that? Or maybe “idealists”..
Thanks for the Russian correction – I always forget those annoying case declensions.
December 29th, 2006 - 18:11
Yeah, you are right, idealist would be the best term that can be applied to the people. Damn that corruptible human nature for ruining a good idea.