From: "alexander koryagin" <koryagin@newmail.ru>

F2EP
Hi, Ardith Hinton! How are you?
on Saturday, 01 of March, I read your message to Alexander Koryagin
about "Humour"

 AH> Awhile ago you were asking what  an  English(wo)man...  defined  by  my
 AH> OXFORD CANADIAN DICTIONARY  as  a  person  who  is  English  by  birth,
 AH> descent,  or naturalization...  would perceive as  funny.  Here  are  a
 AH> couple of incidents re the 2014  Olympic  Games  which  I  found  quite
 AH> amusing:

 AH> 1) According to news reports, Mr. Putin visited the Canadian embassy as
 AH> the games were about to begin & wished us luck... except in hockey.

 AH> For  those  who  aren't  hockey  fans  his  comment  may  require  some
 AH> explanation. I note with interest, though, that he knew we'd take it in
 AH> good spirit.... ;-)

   Actually Putin forgot Russian traditions. Probably it will be interesting
for you,  that if a Russian person wishes somebody luck,  that somebody must
send the wisher to Devil. ;-) It is a tradition.  So, vise versa, when Putin
had wished bad luck for Canadian hockey  players  he  actually  wished  them
luck, and shame on him - Russia got poor chances. ;=)

 AH> 2) At  the  closing  ceremonies,  a  bunch  of  people  re-enacted  the
 AH> situation at the opening ceremonies in which  the  fifth  Olypmic  ring
 AH> failed to work as planned.  (In 2010 one of the pieces  of  Vancouver's
 AH> Olympic torch didn't work initially either.) That's the nature of  show
 AH> business...  something usually goes wrong on opening night!  But I  saw
 AH> Russians doing what many experienced actors & musicians would have done
 AH> right here at home: i.e.  they found a way to fit it into the plot.  By
 AH> so doing they demonstrated clearly to me that they are able to laugh at
 AH> themselves.  I like that...  and as we say in English, a picture may be
 AH> worth a thousand words. :-))

   As for me,  I hate when people act as perfect as  robots.  That's  why  I
don't like ballet, gymnastics etc.  They all smile with professional, false,
hypocritical smiles. They train themselves around-the-clock, and of course a
human cannot love things he repeated thousands of times. The only way out is
to put on a smiling mask.

[...Knowledge is the rock you can step upon, faith is the water you must go
along]
Bye Ardith!
Alexander (yAlexKo[]yandex.ru) + 2:5020/2140.91
fido7.english-tutor 2014 


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