tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086033.post206432388698089722..comments2023-11-05T13:07:03.784+02:00Comments on foreign notes: Nerdy Nestor's telephonesScott W. Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04047386631227542689noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8086033.post-74201131766883295642010-06-08T06:18:58.479+03:002010-06-08T06:18:58.479+03:00As Peter Maha put it on the Savik Shuster Show rec...As Peter Maha put it on the Savik Shuster Show recently:<br /><br />нестор гімнописець<br /><br />Ukrainians will know what that means and why it was said.<br /><br />This odious little crooked twit decided to re-write the hymn of Ukraine.<br /><br />Prior to that, during the Orange Revolution, he was busy writing all sorts of nonsense in court during Yushchenko's efforts to prove election falsification.<br /><br />In Ukrainian history, there is a famous chronicler whose name, transliterated, is:<br /><br />"Nestor Leetopisets"<br /><br />or, very roughly, Nestor the History Writer.<br /><br />So, during the Orange Revolution, people made a play on words and began calling Shufrych:<br /><br />"Nestor Skarhopisets"<br /><br />meaning<br /><br />Nestor Writer of Complaints<br /><br />a skarha (скарга) being a gripe or a complaint.<br /><br />Recently, the odious twit decided that he would re-write the Ukrainian National Anthem.<br /><br />So Peter Maha made yet another play on words.<br /><br />In Ukrainian, the word for hymn is --- hymn (гимн).<br /><br />But the word for shit is heemno, (гімно).<br /><br />If you are writing a hymn, the word is <br /><br />hymnopisets - гимнописець<br /><br />but if you are writing shit, the word is<br /><br />heemnopisets - гімнописець<br /><br /><br />So Peter took the liberty of changing one letter in Ukrainian, and it turns out that this little jerk is "Nestor the Writer of Shit" - which fits.<br /><br />Нестор Гімнописець<br /><br />It also fits the Party of Regions.<br /><br />"We pretend to work effectively, and we force people to pretend that they believe we are working effectively."elmernoreply@blogger.com