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> > > Like big machines like fire trucks and zambonis, eh? Or talk to the
> > > entering players? :-)
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> > > - our seasons' tickets give us first priority on our usual seats,
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> > > happen to be a few rows up, next to the zamboni entrance. if i could
> > > choose
> > > any seat it would be centerline, bench side, about 5 rows up.
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> > > > i'll try to get up to see the biathlon too.
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> > > Do so. But try not to stand next to the equipment like the targets.
> > > People actually shoot at them. With real bullets. Not airsoft or
> > > paintball. Really :-)
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> > > -it's the yuppies who live on the north shore that i am most scared
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> > > they
> > > may cause me to become violently ill, thus ruining my enjoyment of
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> > I am more concerned about those vegetarian gun-banning old hippies
> > ruining biathlon. I can see them intefering with the competitors
> > before the start, offering them to exchange their guns for roses, and
> > secretly pulling out meat, fish, eggs and cheese out of their lunch
> > sandwiches. Is there some meat- or fish-oil in the ski wax these days?
> > If so - hippies will scrape it off the competitors' skis as well. The
> > only hope is that these old hippies will be too mellow after smoking
> > dope with the snowboard competitors to make it to the biathlon venue.
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> > - you're right. the hippies will be there. it is very trendy to
protest
> > the
> > olympics these days and i don't expect much different in 2010.
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> I have a pun on this topic too:
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> In Russia, many people also protested the Chinese Olympic torch. In St
> Petersburg, the torch route was lined with thousands of protesters.
> Some were from the Buddhist regions of Kalmykia and Buryatia, who
> carried big chess boards with "Free Tibet!" on them. But most were
> street girls from Ukraine, carrying signs: "Almost Free Minet!" in
> English and "Tibet - eto minet tebe ot mene!" =A0in Cyrillic. When a
> journalist asked them if they were ashamed, they said: "Yes,
> enormously. The NATO rejection was a slap in our faces. When we heard
> the news on the car radio, we gagged".
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> > they will
> > have to compete with anti-war (if it's still going), anti-globalist,
> > anti-poverty, and native groups for the spotlight though.
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> > Zagadka:
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> > Biatlonist, kotoromu predskazyvali 11-e mesto pered startom, popal v
> > desiatku silnej****x. Kakoe imenno mesto v pervoj desiatke on zanial?
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> > Can you solve it?
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> > - what's the answer?
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> He was first. The other 10 people were shot by him: "popal v desiatku
> silnej****x". A pun on the word "popal", which can mean "made it to"
> and also "shot".
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> - i always thought it was "strelyal". regardless, it's above my meager
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"Strelal" means "he made a shot". "Popal" means "his shot hit the
target".
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