[fish hawk]

"Bush drives Putin to Texas Ranch in Truck"
Right out of the movies: Remember in "Red October" Sean Connery's First Officer wanted to defect to Montana and get him a pickup truck? Never heard of anyone wanting to move to Moscow and stand in line to get a loaf of bread.

[quark]

Some years ago, my company hired a former Soviet MiG-21 pilot, test pilot, and cosmonaut. One night we took him to a country & western establishment for copious amounts of alcohol and C&W music/dancing. Near the end of a long evening, our Russian friend exclaimed, "All my life I want to be cowboy! Now I living the life!!!"

Still cannot suppress a laugh when I think of that time...