Ah Fabo!! Too good!!
I worked with a really cool woman years ago -- she spoke fluent Russian and spent a lot of time over there, teaching and then guiding tours, etc. She was a "character" -- in all the good ways. She was just hilarious.
One time when she got back to the States she broke out one of the many bottles of vodka she had (she never packed stupid things, like CLOTHES), anyway, we were all pestering her to no end, to teach us ONE phrase, in Russian, that would be... let us say,
indispensable.
She brightened, and said,"Oh, that's easy!" and then proceeded to make all 10 of us, rehearse this phrase over and over.. and over.. and OVER....ad nauseum.
We had it DOWN.. just perfect!
Satisfied, she got up to walk away and we all protested, "Hey! Hey! What does it mean?" and she grinned and said "I want sex on the floor."
Fast forward to about 5 years ago, when the Russian smokejumpers came to the USA to jump with us, compare gear, parachutes, and operations, etc., in a neat exchange program...... there were three really great guys, whom we all loved dearly.
I simply had to see if my old friend had taught us correctly, so once I got to know how funny they were, I just HAD to try it out. At the end of a briefing, before we went flying on a jump for them, I spit out the long-buried phrase.... HOOO-WHEEE!! WOW, she IS a good teacher!!!!!!!!
