Too bad it wasn't a nuclear but economic disaster that chased all the people out of this city. I suppose that I could make something up, like the mototsiklistka did, but then, I don't look that good in leathers.
Posted on 01/23/2006 10:14:26 AM PST by rellimpank
Crap, the font isn't supported.
Chernobyl means "Home of Giant Ants".
Too bad it wasn't a nuclear but economic disaster that chased all the people out of this city. I suppose that I could make something up, like the mototsiklistka did, but then, I don't look that good in leathers.
FYI
http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter1.html
This tells the story if it is still up and running.
They sure are good at concrete construction. Imagine how drab and depressing that place must be in winter. Unnngh.
Isn't this an urban legend? I actually looked up the passage from Revelations in a Russian Bible, and the word was not chernobyl.
It looks like Chernobyl means "black-" something, I don't know what the "byl" addition means.
Read the post to which I replied, #31. I was goofing!
Some of the older Stalin-era houses are okay - high ceilings, ornate plasterwork, and thick walls, but Khrushchev/Brezhnev/Andropov/Chernenko/Gorby-era buildings were the pits.
These buildings were in a neighborhood outside of Karaganda, and most are slowly being 'mined' for their pipes, wiring, etc. Some people still live there, and there is an active bus stop, believe it or not.
The Russian version of 'It's a Wonderful Life', which they play every New Year's Eve is called 'Ironies of Fate'. The plot concerns a guy who gets drunk with his buddies one New Year's in Moscow and accidentally gets on a plane to Leningrad/Peterburg. Once there, he takes a taxi home, since he thinks he was just seeing someone off at the airport (now that's drunk). In Leningrad, there is a street with the same name as his own in Moscow, and an apartment complex that looks exactly the same, and with the same address. He takes the elevator to his apartment, and his key even works there. He passes out on a couch he can't remember buying, and a cute lady who of course he'll fall in love with comes home with her fiance.
Some great lines in the movie: "Pit' nado men'she" (Gotta drink less), and the songs are by Nikitin and Pugacheva. The actress was Polish, BTW.
Now such a movie wouldn't be possible in the West. Central planning - it's not just for democrats ;-)
Very interesting!
I had a co worker who left russia during the Reagan administration. He was a very smart guy, and had an excellent education, but was very difficult to work with and would never take responsibility for anything. Very regimented, too, and took all of his breaks to the second. He would wait outside the office even in freezing weather until it was 8:00 on the button.
Heh. Oops.
"In the same book of Revelations when the Seven Seals were broken open on the Day of Judgment, when the seven angels blow the trumpets and third angel blows up wormwood, wormwood will fall from the sky. Wormwood will poison the third part, and all the waters in the third part and all the land and many many many people will die. Now do you know what the Russian translation of wormwood is? Chernobyl. Fact!" SourceI guess the urban legend started with the 1993 movie "Naked." Another thing for the infinite pile of useless non-facts. More grist for procrastinators.
I looked that up myself years ago. So what does chernobyl mean? Black Bile?
I had a 'chornobyl' moment in Kyiv when I grabbed some 'chorvoni perets' and figured "Ah, 'chorni' means black, and 'perets' is pepper, so it should be okay on eggs...
Turns out 'chorvoni' in Ukrainian is red, and their red pepper is thermonuclear.
Next time I'll turn on ALL the lights on in the kitchen ;-)
Here 'ya go. I don't rely much on online translators for articles, but one word at a time they do okay.
If you want to have some REAL fun, put an article into Bablefish, then plug the translation into it again and run it through a few different languages, then back into English. It comes out pretty hilarious.
8:11 А ймення зорі тій Полин. І стала третина води, як полин, і багато з людей повмирали з води, бо згіркла вона... 8:12 І засурмив Ангол четвертий, і вдарено третину сонця, і третину місяця, і третину зір, щоб затьмилася їхня третина, щоб третина дня не світила, так само ж і ніч...I was going to look up a Slavonic Bible, but that would be even more ridiculous. Does Snopes.com pay for debunkings?
It's the same text, I just screen captured Rev 8:6-11, and you cut and pasted Rev 8:11-12. I wonder if how this would come out:
8:11 À éìåííÿ çîð³ ò³é Ïîëèí. ² ñòàëà òðåòèíà âîäè, ÿê ïîëèí, ³ áàãàòî ç ëþäåé ïîâìèðàëè ç âîäè, áî çã³ðêëà âîíà...
Dang, FR overrides my fonts: koi8, cp1251, and unicode all look like Croatian poetry.
I just cut and pasted from that website. The site says it's in UTF-8. Oh, and I use Firefox instead of IE. Perhaps I added in Cyrillic support when I installed a long time ago.
Kid Of SPeed!.. thats it.. I remember that phrase!.. thank you!!!
"This tells the story if it is still up and running."
That link is still working. Weird that I just read it the other night. Different URL though but same text and images for the most part.
This one has a "please support us" link though. I'm thinking that some teenager put the angelfire one up and niave people are buying his next computer.
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