Hey Martin, Well it's not only about Medvedev, it's an old stereotype of imagining Russia as a bear playing balalaika with one paw, and eating red caviar with the other :D The more hillarious for me, ethnic russian, was to see that picture ;D
Sorry for offtop, all this makes me remember a story told me by an old friend of mine who is jr. manager for an oil company for the last couple of years: once he had a couple of german partners, visiting their office, and his boss a couple of weeks before gave him orders to arrange those guys to see their oil platforms, somewhere near Orenburg. Well during the lunch brake, those guys asked him if it was true that bears wonder the streets in Orenburg - they guy thought that it's their sence of humour, and in order not to offence them, said: "Yeah, for sure, they sometimes play balalaika and ear caviar when they'r hungry". Partners laughed and continued the lunch. You may imagine the look on the guy's face, when a couple of hours later, his boss calls him up, and tells to cancel the Orenburg flight, because those partners suddenly were getting in a hurry. First we laughed about it, but after, well....you can't be serious, theese were highly educated, fine middle-level managers...we'll the guy still hopes that they were really getting in a hurry and not belivieng his fairytales. Well we both certainly hope so :) regards, vik ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Tomasek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 5:18 PM Subject: Re: [funsec] Help crack the Russian hacker mystery > Viktor Larionov wrote: >> It was him: http://de.fishki.net/picsw/082008/15/carikatura/tn.jpg >> For sure it was, don't let anyone fool you =)) >> >> Regards, >> vik > > I'm not sure that americans know russian. (Medvedev == bear man) > > -- > Martin Tomasek > > > > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
