It's an exam about animals.
Teacher: picks a card- Dog.
Student: Well a dog is a 4 legged animal covered in fur. Because of the fur, the dog will usually have fleas. And fleas are these tiny little creatures [he goes on and on about fleas, very detailed and accurate]
Teacher: picks another card- Fox.
Same deal- the student identifies the fur as an important characeristic and goes on and on about fleas.
This goes on for a couple more rounds.
Teacher: looks through all the cards, smiles widely when he finds the one he was looking for, and says: FISH.
Student:
Unfortunately, fish have scales, so they do not have fur... But if they did have fur, THEY WOULD HAVE FLEAS!
Teacher: picks a card- Dog.
Student: Well a dog is a 4 legged animal covered in fur. Because of the fur, the dog will usually have fleas. And fleas are these tiny little creatures [he goes on and on about fleas, very detailed and accurate]
Teacher: picks another card- Fox.
Same deal- the student identifies the fur as an important characeristic and goes on and on about fleas.
This goes on for a couple more rounds.
Teacher: looks through all the cards, smiles widely when he finds the one he was looking for, and says: FISH.
Student:
Unfortunately, fish have scales, so they do not have fur... But if they did have fur, THEY WOULD HAVE FLEAS!
So Vladimir Putin wants a canon of 100 Russian books for all Russians to be required to read
- 26/01/2012 01:21:44 PM
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I can come up with 75 without any problem
- 26/01/2012 05:10:47 PM
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I was wondering if you'd have to include Sholokhov there 
- 26/01/2012 05:15:48 PM
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- 26/01/2012 05:15:48 PM
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I think it's probably safe to conclude from that list...
- 26/01/2012 08:15:35 PM
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Considering his first 20...
- 26/01/2012 09:30:10 PM
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Oh, nevermind, I'd overlooked his plays there on the 16th position. Ignore what I said.
- 26/01/2012 09:42:03 PM
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It was more in chronological order, rather than in terms of quality
- 26/01/2012 11:35:10 PM
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It was that obvious? *NM*
- 26/01/2012 11:29:06 PM
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Apparently not for me
- 26/01/2012 11:34:29 PM
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- 26/01/2012 11:34:29 PM
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The only Sorokin I care to read is Pitirim Sorokin.
- 26/01/2012 11:39:39 PM
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Pelevin being the exception?
- 26/01/2012 11:49:18 PM
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"SNUFF" is coming out in English in February already?
- 27/01/2012 12:04:16 AM
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Zamyatin? *NM*
- 30/01/2012 10:17:29 AM
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What did you want to ask about Zamyatin? *NM*
- 31/01/2012 08:38:31 PM
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I suspect she, like me, read a little too fast and wrongly thought she'd found an omission. *NM*
- 02/02/2012 06:42:22 PM
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I'm more interested in how this would be enforced
- 27/01/2012 02:39:15 AM
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The same way everybody else does it...
- 27/01/2012 04:14:41 AM
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The same way everybody else does it...
- 27/01/2012 04:14:41 AM
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That's exactly what they're talking about.
- 27/01/2012 04:38:08 AM
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Did you ever hear of the flea joke?
- 02/02/2012 03:23:06 AM
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