--- In cybalist@... s.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:
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> --- On Fri, 7/31/09, Koenraad Elst <koenraad.elst@ ...> wrote:
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> --- In cybalist@... s.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@ ...> wrote:
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> > Regardless of their supposed higher intelligence (which would make Ukraine an IQ hotspot?)<<
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> Remember "rocket science"? The Russians were the first in space, Gagarin was from some Ural district, pretty close to the putative Urheimat ;-)
Realizing that he built the rocket himself, my admiration for the Ukrainians grows by leaps and bounds.
And the name of the next one was German Titov. Huh? Get it?
Korovlëv was Russian, in any case.
> ****GK: So were Lenin and Brezhnev (:=))). Which reminds me of a
> joke from "Radio Armenia": "What is the difference between a lizard
> and a crocodile? Answer: None. A lizard is a crocodile who has
> advanced from socialism to communism." ****
I though Lenin was Swedish?
***R He was, but he was also part German, part Jewish and part Kalmyk from what I've read. I've also read that he was part Bashkort and Russian
Brezhnev to his mom:
'Look, this is my car!
Look, this is my dac^a!
Look this is my castle on the Black Sea!'
Mom: 'Yes, but what if the communists come back?'
Torsten