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Thursday, February 24, 2005
Moooooooo
AP:
Struggling to repair troubled relations, President Bush prodded Vladimir Putin on Thursday about Moscow's retreat from democracy but the Russian leader bluntly rejected the criticism and insisted there was no backsliding.
"Strong countries are built by developing strong democracies," Bush said he told Putin.
Putin responded: Чья бы корова мычала, а твоя бы молчала.1
ntodd
1 - Ch'ia by korova mychala, a tvoya molchala = Whose cow would moo, while yours would be silent = The pot calling the kettle black.
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Comments
It could have been worse; he could have said "имейте некоторый экспириментально нервно-паралитический газ, чучело!" ("Have some experimental nerve gas, scarecrow!")
Thanks, Altavista Babel Fish translator!
Posted by: norbizness | Feb 24, 2005 7:43:33 PM
OK, now you guys are just showing off.
Posted by: queen crab | Feb 24, 2005 7:49:08 PM
Norbiz - ROFLMAO! Oh shit, that's not a symptom of being exposed to the gas, is it?
queen crab - well, to be honest, the question of how to say "pot calling the kettle black" came up over at Atrios, so it was in my head. And I just wrote to my friend Dima in St. Petersburg, Russia, asking if there's an idiomatic phrase equivalent to "two peas in a pod".
Posted by: NTodd | Feb 24, 2005 8:03:00 PM
Whose cow would moo, while yours would be silentThat could be the epigram, possibly the epitaph for this entire sad episode of righteous evil as we stand in the twilight of democracy.
Posted by: The Heretik | Feb 24, 2005 8:55:49 PM
Ah, but Heretik, you of all people should know that the reign of witches cannot endure forever.
Posted by: NTodd | Feb 24, 2005 10:23:04 PM
Oh. Ooooh! A reminder of Jefferson's steadfastness (and what he faced was at least as bad as what we face, in a very different way) was just what I needed at the moment. Thanks, NTodd.
Posted by: Steve Bates | Feb 24, 2005 10:42:14 PM
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