In <369C2309.EB461C6F at ix.netcom.com> Richard Sargent
<dsargent at ix.netcom.com> writes:
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F. Frank LeFever wrote:
Certainly the
>>> newcomer can also propose ideas--but be prepared to learn that they
are
>> likely to be like the old joke about the two leading newspapers in
the
>> USSSR...
And Peter (i.e . Peter, not Richard, Sargent) asked:
>>Which joke?
>
The two papers were Pravda, the party organ, and Izvyestia, the
government publication. Pravda means "truth" (po angliski) and
Izvyestia means "news".
The joke (forgive the transliteration; my browser does not support
Cyrillic): "Shto pravda nye izvyestia, i shto izvyestia nye pravda"
("What's true is not news, and what's 'news' is not true")
F. LeFever