Happy Day of Knowledge!
Today is September 1rst, the Day of Knowledge here in Ukraine. Celebrations take place in all institutions of learning with songs, poems, and a symbolic exchange between the newest students and the oldest. They get some sort of "student ticket" and a key.
My university decided to have a concert at the Palace of Culture and had a variety show of sorts. There were boy bands, break dancers, little girls singing songs, bike stunts, dudes dancing to Michael Jackson, and comic routines. Yup. I couldn't understand squat, but picked up a great racist joke about Moldovans! Yay!
So, for all of you who teach or learn for a living, today is your day, your spraznikom as they say. So enjoy yourself before you gotta open up your books!
My university decided to have a concert at the Palace of Culture and had a variety show of sorts. There were boy bands, break dancers, little girls singing songs, bike stunts, dudes dancing to Michael Jackson, and comic routines. Yup. I couldn't understand squat, but picked up a great racist joke about Moldovans! Yay!
So, for all of you who teach or learn for a living, today is your day, your spraznikom as they say. So enjoy yourself before you gotta open up your books!
posted by Molly | 4:14 AM
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Check here if you want to see a propaganda poster for the day of knowledge. Eric, it's a Boston number--wanna call and get the price? It's great!
http://www.internationalposter.com/wdetail.cfm?ImageName=RUL05180
So are you going to tell us this Moldovan joke or what?
-e
It's complicated over the computer, but here you go: 4 guys are rowing a boat. The head guy yells out "German" and they are all in time with each other, saying something in German (like maybe 1, 2, 3, or whatever, hurrying along and in order). They head guy then yells out "Moldovian" and the men face each other and paddle, obviously realizing that they aren't getting anywhere, they then each turn around (continuing to not go anywhere). The last thing they yelled out was "Ukrainian!" and everyone just stopped and pretended to smoke and drink. Finally they said something like they needed to work or get home, or someone was coming (I don't know) and they turned on the motor and left. Ha.
Racist jokes... tut, tut, tut...
PS. You've been memed!
So the basic gist is that Moldovans are a bit thick?
-e
yeah. they are the polacks of Ukrainian humor
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