Quote Originally Posted by diogen_ View Post
Sounds terrific! No denying you’ll have it made in no time at all. Fingers crossed, though.

On a side note, you seem to be a polymathic savant in a multitude of ultimately controversial aspects of interpersonal intercourse. Hence, I cannot but beg you kindly enough to satiate a modicum of my scientific appetite on one of the most abstruse aspects of Ukrainian culture; namely, is it the universal cultural standard in the Ukraine for a woman first ask for the moon and then place her ‘flying pig' in a sack for better preservation in case of emergency inasmuch as it is presented on the clip hereunder? I have racked my feeble mind for four days running to no avail. Please, land me a friendly hand on the issue when you have a chance!
Certainly, I will most willingly clarify the matter.

But before I pass on to the Ukrainian cultural standards I would like to call upon you to use the name of the country you mentioned in compliance with the United Nations Organization’s standards. We are "Ukraine" (a state), not "the Ukraine" (a Russian region). Don’t you think that the name "the Ukraine" sounds condescending and colonial? You should respect others in order to be respected.

http://search.un.org/search?ie=utf8&...aine&Submit=Go

And now as concerns the cultural traditions: I’m afraid that first I have to reproach you in having been inattentive while watching the video. I suppose that you were eyeing the lady’s ample bosoms instead of paying attention to details which, as you claim, interest you. She didn’t put the moon into a sack. She put it into a trunk.

Naturally, the tradition of keeping jewelry and other valuables has changed a little since Gogol wrote his “Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka”. As we have furniture in our houses and apartments, we usually keep the jewelry we have in wardrobes, built-in closets, chest of drawers, commodes, sideboards, as well as in bureaus and desks. Besides that we often use banks for this purpose. Yes, we do have banks, no matter how strange that may sound. Ukraine is in Europe, you know.

Well, how’s your scientific appetite now? Have I fed you enough?