----- Original Message ----
> From: Mark Roberts <[email protected]>
> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tue, March 16, 2010 7:20:40 PM
> Subject: Re: question for the brits American to English translation
>
> Doug Franklin wrote:
>On 2010-03-16 16:23, Bob W
> wrote:
>>>> St Petersburg (formerly known as
> Leningrad)
>>>
>>> Now that just strikes me as funny and
> sort of ironic. Wasn't
>>> it known as St. Petersburg for
> quite a while before the Reds
>>> renamed it to
> Leningrad?
>>
>> There was a joke during the Communist era
> that had an old man saying "I was
>> born in St Petersburg, grew up in
> Petrograd and have lived all my adult life
>> in Leningrad. I hope to
> die in St Petersburg". For many people it came true,
>>
> happily.
>
>I have a horrifying "vision" that I might learn to know
> that feeling
>before I pass from this Earth.
If you're waiting for
> them to change New York back to New Amsterdam I
wouldn't hold my
> breath.
♫Istanbul was Constantinople
♫Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
♫Been a long time gone, Constantinople
♫Why did Constantinople get the works?
♫That's nobody's business but the Turks
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