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2016 Postmortem

Ken Burch

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12. This was illustrated in one issue of the old "Mad" paperbacks

Reply to onenote (Reply #4)

Sun Dec 11, 2016, 02:40 PM

Dec 2016

(they did paperbacks before the actual magazines)

They created a parody "Reader's Digest" cover, with its characteristic table of contents.

These two articles were listed in sequence:

We Are Losing Idaho And Montana To The Russians.........Alarmist Weekly

Who WANTS Them?.............................................................Pravda

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Guess it's time to learn Cyrillic [View all] Danmel Dec 2016 OP

And I've heard there's one dialect of Russian that is nothing but obscenities. Ken Burch Dec 2016 #1

It's called Mat and it revolves around 4 or 5 words. NWCorona Dec 2016 #6

At least Carlin's list had 7 Glassunion Dec 2016 #8

I still have that album. He would have a field day with this election NWCorona Dec 2016 #10

There are a lot of folks I'm sad did not have a voice during the election. Glassunion Dec 2016 #11

From here on, we should write "Republican" and "Republican Party" using the Cyrillic alphabet The Genealogist Dec 2016 #2

There's a lot more to learning Russian than learning its alphabet. MineralMan Dec 2016 #3

I think the Russian alphabet is pretty easy with only 33 letters NWCorona Dec 2016 #7

right. because you think the commissars are going to take over the federal and 50 state governments onenote Dec 2016 #4

I know right? Glassunion Dec 2016 #9

This was illustrated in one issue of the old "Mad" paperbacks Ken Burch Dec 2016 #12

At least we'll get to hear more great Russian pop music. Kotya Dec 2016 #5

I see. Feh! MineralMan Dec 2016 #13