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To: ambrose
Pravda used to tell us that the Russians invented baseball.
3 posted on 01/28/2004 12:33:47 PM PST by headsonpikes (Spirit of '76 bttt!)
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To: headsonpikes
Shakespeare too as I recall. Besides, every ne knows that the EU invented basketball.
11 posted on 01/28/2004 12:40:04 PM PST by CasearianDaoist
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To: headsonpikes
There's an old joke going back to soviet times.
Pravda means truth. Izvestia means news ( and that was the name of another official soviet news paper.
So the joke went:

Theres No pravda in Izvestia,
and no izvestia in Pravda.

Some things never change.....
16 posted on 01/28/2004 12:46:24 PM PST by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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