2003-03-26 22:42:00
Have Poor Marks? Ask Cockroach to Do Away With Them
Pupils from the Russian city of Yekaterinburg invented a new wonderful method to get rid of poor marks written in their school diaries. They are ready to share the new experience with other pupils who often get poor marks and don’t want to disappoint their parents with the fact of bad progress at school.
The new method is as follows. You should catch 10-20 cockroaches, put them into a small box and starve the insects for 2-3 days. Then you should pour some sweet syrup on the hateful poor mark in your diary and draw the diary open wide closer to the box with cockroaches. Yekaterinburg pupils say that hungry insects will immediately devour the syrup together with the ink and the space under the poor mark on the paper will be clean once again. Isn’t it a wonderful idea? You should try and find out if it’s effective.
2003-03-21 16:33:00
Man Sues Firm Over Big Pumpkins (0)
Nikolay Salakhov, a resident of the town of Pavlov-Posad in the Moscow region, is going to sue a Moscow seed firm. Nikolay is going to file the lawsuit on the allegation of improper seeds, which made him suffer from a brain concussion.
In the year 2002 Nikolay Salakhov bought a small packet of pumpkin seeds in order to grow them on the terrace of his country house. As instructions said, pumpkins entwine props up to two meters high and then grow decorative vegetables the size of a pear.
Nikolay planted those seeds, the plants entwined props on the terrace, although vegetables turned out to be a common size of a pumpkin, weighing up to 15 kilos. One of those big pumpkins fell down on Nikolay’s head, when he slammed the door behind him one fine day. Andrey Tumanov, the chairman of the Moscow Union of Gardeners, said that almost a half of the seeds, which are available on the Russian market today, do not correspond to gardening norms. It often happens that seed firms sell either defective or overdue storage seeds.
2003-03-13 20:02:00
Saunas: Combination of Fire and Water (0)
A lot of people like going to saunas. A sauna used to be associated with cold beer and a company of friends. Now the situation has changed a bit: going to a sauna implies some sort of sexual activities and even perversion sometimes. Steam, beer and friends have been pushed into the background. Since people love mixing business with pleasure, let us try to find out, to which extent the sauna entertainment is good, and to which extent it is bad.
Going to saunas is good, because:
A warmer atmosphere of a sauna is best to make people feel erotic and sexy. Skin nerve endings get very sensitive to caresses, and a couple of visits to the steam room purifies human mind. You are not likely to suffer from any kind of remorse for all mean things that you might do there: the brain will allow your body to do whatever it wants to do. This freedom can hardly be achieved in other circumstances, only with the help of a lot of alcohol, maybe.
The problem of getting undressed in public is not a problem anymore. Everyone gets naked in a sauna and there is no shyness about it. Everyone feels very relaxed. Although, it is always possible to hide intimate body parts with a towel, which is not going to be a serious obstacle like a swimsuit, or a coat, for example.
Steam makes you feel sober. If you are unlucky to drink more alcohol than your body can cope with, a sauna will bring you back to life in some twenty minutes. There are a lot of various conveniences in modern saunas – gyms, jacuzzi, billiards and so on.
Going to saunas is bad, because:
If you feel like having sex in a steam room, it will be a great hardship for your body. The cardiovascular system might not stand such passion both inside and outside. On the other hand, dying while having sex is definitely beautiful.
There are a lot of sources of danger. If you do not drown in a pool, you might lean over a red-hot wall. No one will find it pleasant, even those, who find a certain satisfaction in a little bit of pain.
When everything is naked and accessible, the interest becomes somewhat dull. It is not ruled out that the your excitement about a dressed individual will fade away instantly, when an individual takes his/her clothes off. Wearing pants and jackets is absolutely out of question in a sauna: this might end in a heat stroke.
On the whole, it should be mentioned that having sex in a sauna is good to human health. It is important to do it correctly, because the combination of fire and water can be very dangerous at times. The majority of saunas have special instructions hanging on its walls
2003-03-13 17:30:00
Two-headed Calf Born in Russia’s Vologda Region(0)
Recently a two-headed calf was born at a farm in Russia’s Vologda region. Unfortunately, farmers failed to save its life
At the end of February milkmaids at the Zarya farm clutched their heads in horror: their favorite cow named Toma delivered an unusual animal: it was a calf with two necks and two heads. The farmers were unhappy to see that the two-headed calf died during difficult confinement. Fortunately, the cow itself survived.
Veterinary specialists of the Vologda region say that appearance of the mutant calf is closely connected with worsening ecological situation in the region. Vets say that soils in the area where the strange calf was born catastrophically lack selenium and iodine, this fact causes anomalies. For instance, a calf without a tail was born at a neighboring farm last year. This was the first time that a two-headed calf was born.
Instances of births of such calves are rare in the world as well.
In the spring of 2001 a cow delivered a two-headed calf in a village 70 kilometers to the south of Tirana (Albania). Legends in that place say that birth of such animals brings misfortune, that is why the owner of the strange calf was in despair. However, the woman cheered up when the US Vet Association offered her to sell the mutant for 25 USD.
In the spring of 2002 a two-headed calf was also born in a farm in Russia’s Ulyanovsk region. Last summer similar mutant was born in Honduras. When the calf came to the world, owner of the cow nearly fainted as he saw the calf had two heads. At first, the two heads bellowed simultaneously and then tried to drive the whole of the body. However, the calf died in half an hour.
Scientists explain that such phenomena appear as a result of mutations in the organism in the period of embryonic growth of tissues. Mutations can be caused by unfavorable environmental situation first of all, high concentration of toxic substances and radiation.
2003-03-07 22:00:00
Ukrainian Citizen Changes His Last Name to Bush (0)
Arnold Schwarznegger is the name of a man, who lives in the Dnepropetrovsk region of Ukraine. As it was informed by the Ukrainian Justice Ministry, a man named Putin appeared in the Lugansk region of the country, while the Lvov region has someone, who is named Klitschko (in honor of a famous boxer). A resident of the Ternopol region changed his last name to Bush.
At the same time, a resident of the Lvov region of Ukraine wished to change his last name to Kuchma – the name of the incumbent Ukrainian president. However, internal affairs bodies turned the request down. There were 25 956 Ukrainian citizens, who wished to change their names in the year 2002. This is the official information of the Justice Ministry of Ukraine. Most often people decide to do such thing on account of the fact that their original names sound either funny or they are very hard to pronounce. For example, people changed such names as Kozel (Goat), Mogila (Grave), Krysko (Ratty), Durakov (Dumbo) , Vyrvykhvost (can be translated as ‘pull out a tail’) and many others.
In addition to that, twelve people of the Caucasian nationality changed their last names to Ukrainian ones. This tendency is typical for other regions of the country as well. Ukrainian names are basically changed to German, Italian, Jewish and English ones. Ukrainians like to become Laurita, Tatiana-Sara, Liona, Sabrina, Samantha, Isabella, Radmila, Zigminda. Some people change their names in honor of their favorite soap operas. A resident was incredibly impressed with Harry Potter’s adventures, so now his name is Potter Harry Zakh. A Kiev female resident named Olga changed her name twice in 2002: at first she became Ollga and then Olilga. Two female residents of the Lugansk region changed their last names to Romanov. It is interesting that the women did not know each other at all. Sometimes, civil status employees talk people out of their intention to change their names. For example, they convinced a man not to become Sekretov Sekret Sekretovich.
Ukrainian Justice Minister Alexander Lavrinovich reminded that changing names is absolutely legal in Ukraine. Any Ukrainian citizen of 16 years of age and older, is entitled to go to the adequate civil status department and to submit his or her application on that.
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Better reading than the Star and the Globe put together I say.
So ... like I said before ... when's a good time for the party? Is it ok if I bring some friends? I've got about eight interested so far. But they like fresh clams. And I promised them there would be dates .... female .... no mustaches. Moscow models. If we could we'd like to stage the protests in the afternoon for about an hour (no more). Some of us don't like to walk around with signs in the cold all that much and we figure we'd like to sleep in and deal with our hangovers from the night before.
Oh ... and only a couple of the guys are fond of Vodka. Any chance of having scotch, Tennesee whiskey or beer available there from the States or western Europe? Or do we have to bring that in? They don't mind if we bring that in, do they?
