Comments on: The Truth Started Today!

By: ChrisM

ChrisM — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:57:20 +0000

@Oleg thanks for the jokes, they translate well Re. the punctuation, I’m not sure on the rules for a full stop in a sentence like that, but if I had to guess, I’d put it after the final quotation mark, as there are two quotes in the sentence. Anyway you know me, I tend to throw commas in sentences incorrectly, normally where I’d pause for breath, or … dramatic effect LOL
@Rich thanks for the stumble

By: richard mclaughlin

richard mclaughlin — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:08:04 +0000

Happy birthday Pravda.

stumbled it Chris.

By: Oleg Frantsuzov

Oleg Frantsuzov — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:40:49 +0000

A Soviet engineer is visiting Czech Republic. His Czech colleague shows the guest a nice house he owns. ‘Do you see a bridge there?’ asks the C?ech. ‘Yep.’ ‘I saved some budget money building it.’

Next year, the Czech is visiting the Soviet Union. The Soviet engineer shows him his luxurious dacha. ‘Now, do you see a bridge there?’ asks the host. ‘Nope.’ ‘That is it.’

By: Oleg Frantsuzov

Oleg Frantsuzov — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:28:52 +0000

Here’s another one.

Two Chukchas are lost in the tundra. One of them suggests: ‘I know Russians shoot in the air if lost.’ His partner agrees it’s a good idea and starts shooting. Eventually he stops doing so. ‘Why not shooting anymore?’ ‘Have no arrows left.’

By: Oleg Frantsuzov

Oleg Frantsuzov — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:00:28 +0000

Sorry, that had to be Soviet Russia, not Motherland. And I’ve obviously messed up the punctuation in my comment. I’m not sure about the em dash between the dialogue lines, and can’t remember whether the full stop must go before the closing quote mark or after it. Please edit my comment as you find suitable.

By: Oleg Frantsuzov

Oleg Frantsuzov — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:54:21 +0000

‘Do you have any recent newspapers?’ — ‘No Truth left, Motherland has been sold out, all that left is Labour, cost 3 kopecks’.