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Literally: "The break-dancing competition was won by a deaf-mute, trying to warn everyone about a fire."

No-no-no-no-no! "Break-dancing" is when you spin on your head будто волчком. As an American...

Hee-hee... :crazy: Это мне напоминает моего восьмилетнего племянника! (I hope I got the construction right with "напоминать".) Ему всякие "нормальные пиндостанские" блюди не нравятся -- кроме пиццы,...

А если героиня обижается на такое хамство?!

Интересно знать, эта картина особенно знаменита? Стиль и сюжет чем-то напоминают Нормана Роквелла.

Из старого номера [анг. = "routine"] Джорджа Карлина об "Интервью с Иисусом":

INTERVIEWER: Jesus, many people say that you miraculously turned water into wine during a wedding feast in Cana. Is...

Спасибо за последние анекдоты, Lampada, а кто-нибудь не помог бы разобраться грамматические отношения в выражении "подзняк метаться"? (To me, "поздняк" looks like a noun, but then one would expect...

This reminded me of an old joke that probably can't be translated from English:

Q. Why did God make semen white and urine yellow?
A. So that men would know whether they're coming or going.
...

PS. Can one say на моём/нашем порогу with the meaning "at my/our (very) doorstep" (we wouldn't say "threshold" in this context), as an approximate synonym for "на моём двору"?

In the figurative...

LOL! The crème/Crimea part of the joke is just as funny in English, and it got laughs from some of my Facebook friends who don't speak Russian.

The коляска/Аляска wordplay can't be directly...

Aha, thanks. I thought perhaps it might be a shortened synonym for "крем-брюле". Although, like cosmetic cream, this dessert is not necessarily expensive -- you'll pay a bit more if it's called crème...

Does крем here mean some kind of expensive cosmetic for the face, or some kind of expensive French dessert?

BWAH-HA! :ROFL: Okay, that one is definitely worth sharing in English, too (although some Americans may not immediately recognize the name of Putin's trophy-wife.)

Yes -- the weight of the container when it's completely empty, in contrast with the combined "gross weight" of the container plus the contents. (GROSS - TARE = NET)
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Ha! I understand the joke, but would "тара" mean a container similar to these?

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(I assume this must be the meaning, from...

И примерно 30% остальных -- к любовнику...



"Aim a Toyota tatami mat at a Toyota, Mia!" (Old palindrome, probably from the days when U.S. consumers were still slightly hostile to the idea of...

Perhaps the story is "too good to be true," but this part is consistent with everything I've been told (by Israeli acquaintances online) about normal Israeli behavior on airplanes!

This one should translate very well into Russian -- only I'm not sure about one particular word:

Two five-year-old children are playing in the yard. The first child says:
"Yesterday I found a...

Quoted from the story:



Just to make it clear, EVERYTHING IN THE ARTICLE after the words "Kami, an HIV-positive character" is a joke! (It's true that the South African version of Sesame Street...

I was ROFLing at this one! (The reference to a fishing trip also made me think of Brokeback Mountain, although of course in THAT case, икра could result only "по щучьему велению"...)

Oh, boy, I could certainly use one of those! The last time I made pilaf, the "зирвак" was a bit too charcoal-colored because I forgot to watch the time...

On another occasion, я посидел дрожжевое...

Английский анекдот "в теме":

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The American actress Tallulah Bankhead [1902-1968] was...

За что прервали концерт?

Считали, что группа Infected Mushroom казалась слишком "гей-френдли", или что?

"Chernobyl, on the other hand, was not only a marvel of Russian engineering (one theory is that it blew up when the donkey working the treadmill had a heart attack and died)"

Heh-heh-heh... I...

Анекдот на английском языке:

The Pope is visiting New York for a major conference with all the American cardinals and bishops. In order to practice his English, he decides to spend a free hour...

I had to get help from Google for this one. Узи means "Uzi" (the Israeli-made machine gun), but УЗИ is an acronym meaning "ultrasound exam" (ультразвуковое исследование). So when the woman says she...