Comments on: "In Soviet Russia..." jokes on MeFi.

"In Soviet Russia..." jokes on MeFi.

luser — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 07:31:03 -0800

mmm, new soviet-style pancakes.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 07:47:02 -0800

in soviet union, point would be making YOU.

By: PinkStainlessTail

PinkStainlessTail — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 09:02:25 -0800

"IN SOVIET RUSSIA" is to memes what scabies is to skin, if scabies had a strong odor and made a screeching noise.

By: malphigian

malphigian — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 09:10:37 -0800

Something Awful needs to figure out a better containment system for their memes.

The goons carry them everywhere like a virus, if a virus was like scabies, and scabies had a strong odor and made a screeching noise.

By: thomcatspike

thomcatspike — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 10:08:15 -0800

What are you saying luser? The links, linked nothing for me...whosh! as it went over my head.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 10:17:57 -0800

Great, more pointless noise. I removed the references.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 10:21:23 -0800

Is Yakov Smirnoff hot again? I use the word again very, very loosely. Actually, I use the word hot very, very loosely also.

By: luser

luser — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 10:55:43 -0800

Science does not know how many levels of irony it would take to bring back the Bard of Branson. Our best guess is, many, many more than humans are capable of processing.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 11:19:50 -0800

I'm still waiting for Balki Bartokamus to come back so I can use my "Get out of the city!" quip.

By: rusty

rusty — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 11:26:38 -0800

I hate to even say it, but dire circumstances demand dire measures.

I refer of course to the well-known and heavily documented fact, highlighted repeatedly in recent speeches and writings by both Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore, and so well-linked by both blogs and commercial news sources that its truth can be disputed only by the most utterly rabid SUV-driving Freeper that, in point of fact, in Soviet Russia references remove mathowie.

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 13:16:43 -0800

I'm still waiting for Balki Bartokamus to come back...

He's back, but with a brogue. Good play, but be warned--it is much more "serious" and somewhat less raucous than it is billed (people expecting Pinchot to do an Irish "Perfect Strangers" are disappointed).

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 13:42:07 -0800

I'm sorry to say, I was acting badly...I used a Yakov Smirnov inspired quip on irc.metafilter
& should've quit while I was ahead.

The "X to Y/Y to X" nature of chiasmus got the worst of me.

I was acting badly, ~~if I say~~, but I've learned an important lesson.

By: timeistight

timeistight — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 13:44:51 -0800

What are you saying luser? The links, linked nothing for me...whosh! as it went over my head.

Me too, TCS. I haven't the slightest idea what these folks are talking about.

By: PinkStainlessTail

PinkStainlessTail — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 13:47:05 -0800

What are you saying luser? The links, linked nothing for me...whosh! as it went over my head.

Me too, TCS. I haven't the slightest idea what these folks are talking about.

timeistight and thomcatspike are the luckiest goddamn humans on the web.

By: dhoyt

dhoyt — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:29:57 -0800

Is Yakov Smirnoff hot again?

Posters have been doing the "In Soviet Russia..." bit over at Fark, Something Awful, et al, for about a year. Kinda funny at first. Some were very clever.

And then...

By: thomcatspike

thomcatspike — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:48:03 -0800

Thank you, PinkStainlessTail, you made my day really...cheers to you too, timesight.

By: thomcatspike

thomcatspike — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:55:10 -0800

err ..time is tight...just call me thomcat's pike...per kafkaesque