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Which reminds me of the riddles in Yerofeyev's Moscow—Petushki (sorry, only in russian, my russian and my english are too bad to translate) «Знаменитый ударник

by pgtan 6y ago

Which reminds me of the riddles in Yerofeyev's Moscow—Petushki (sorry, only in russian, my russian and my english are too bad to translate) «Знаменитый ударник Алексей Стаханов два раза в день ходил по малой нужде и один раз в два дня – по большой. Когда же с ним случался запой, он четыре раза в день ходил по малой нужде и ни разу – по большой. Подсчитай, сколько раз в год ударник Алексей Стаханов сходил по малой нужде и сколько по большой нужде, если учесть, что у него триста двенадцать дней в году был запой». «Когда корабли Седьмого американского флота пришвартовались к станции Петушки, партийных девиц там не было, но если комсомолок называть партийными, то каждая третья из них была блондинкой. По отбытии кораблей Седьмого американского флота обнаружилось следующее: каждая третья комсомолка была изнасилована; каждая четвертая изнасилованная оказалась комсомолкой; каждая пятая изнасилованная комсомолка оказалась блондинкой; каждая девятая изнасилованная блондинка оказалась комсомолкой. Если всех девиц в Петушках 428 – определи, сколько среди них осталось нетронутых беспартийных брюнеток?» And my favorite: «Как известно, в Петушках нет пунктов А. Пунктов Ц тем более нет. Есть одни только пункты Б. Так вот: Папанин, желая спасти Водопьянова, вышел из пункта Б1 в сторону пункта Б2. В то же мгновенье Водопьянов, желая спасти Папанина, вышел из пункта Б2 в пункт Б1. Неизвестно почему оба они оказались в пункте Б3, отстоящем от пункта Б1 на расстоянии 12-ти водопьяновских плевков, а от пункта Б2 – на расстоянии 16-ти плевков Папанина. Если учесть, что Папанин плевал на три метра семьдесят два сантиметра, а Водопьянов совсем не умел плевать, выходил ли Папанин спасать Водопьянова?»

acqq 6y ago
Using Google Translate doesn't produce anything understandable. But searching for the text of the "favorite" part it can be seen that is is from this work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow-Petushki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow-Petushki
slevir 6y ago
I'll take a shot at translating those in a somewhat intelligible way while trying to preserve hilarity, with my commentary in parenthesis when appropriate. "A famous udarnik (a shock worker, someone who was a lot more productive than others) Aleksei Stakhanov went number one 2 times a day and number two 1 time every two days. However, when in zapoy (drinking continuosly) he went number one 4 times a day and didn't go number two at all. How many times he went number one and number two in a year, considering that he was in zapoy 312 days a year?" "When American Seventh fleet ships moored to Petushki station, there was no party member girls (Communist Party obviously, there was no other party) there, but if you consider Komsomol (kind of a youth division of the Party) girls belonging to the party, a third of them were blonde. When American Seventh fleet ships left, the following was discovered: every third Komsomol girl was raped, every forth raped girl was a Komsomol member, every fifth raped Komsomol girl was a blonde, every ninth raped blonde was a Komsomol member. Considering that there was a total of 428 girls in Petushki, how many non-party brunettes were left untouched?" "As we know, there is no point A's in Petushki. All the more, there is no point C's. The only points present are B. So, Papanin (a last name), going to save Vodopyanov (another last name), started moving from point B1 to point B2. At the same moment Vodopyanov, going to save Papanin, started moving from point B2 to point B1. It is unknown why, but they both ended up at point B3, which is 12 Vodopyanov's spits away from point B1 and 16 Papanin's spits away from point B2. Considering that Papanin's spits land 3m 72cm away, and Vodopyanov can't spit at all, was Papanin actually going to save Vodopyanov?" UPD: typo

by pgtan 6y ago

acqq 6y ago

Using Google Translate doesn't produce anything understandable. But searching for the text of the "favorite" part it can be seen that is is from this work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow-Petushki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow-Petushki

slevir 6y ago

I'll take a shot at translating those in a somewhat intelligible way while trying to preserve hilarity, with my commentary in parenthesis when appropriate. "A famous udarnik (a shock worker, someone who was a lot more productive than others) Aleksei Stakhanov went number one 2 times a day and number two 1 time every two days. However, when in zapoy (drinking continuosly) he went number one 4 times a day and didn't go number two at all. How many times he went number one and number two in a year, considering that he was in zapoy 312 days a year?" "When American Seventh fleet ships moored to Petushki station, there was no party member girls (Communist Party obviously, there was no other party) there, but if you consider Komsomol (kind of a youth division of the Party) girls belonging to the party, a third of them were blonde. When American Seventh fleet ships left, the following was discovered: every third Komsomol girl was raped, every forth raped girl was a Komsomol member, every fifth raped Komsomol girl was a blonde, every ninth raped blonde was a Komsomol member. Considering that there was a total of 428 girls in Petushki, how many non-party brunettes were left untouched?" "As we know, there is no point A's in Petushki. All the more, there is no point C's. The only points present are B. So, Papanin (a last name), going to save Vodopyanov (another last name), started moving from point B1 to point B2. At the same moment Vodopyanov, going to save Papanin, started moving from point B2 to point B1. It is unknown why, but they both ended up at point B3, which is 12 Vodopyanov's spits away from point B1 and 16 Papanin's spits away from point B2. Considering that Papanin's spits land 3m 72cm away, and Vodopyanov can't spit at all, was Papanin actually going to save Vodopyanov?" UPD: typo