I've got a question:
"Buy the Harley. Have a new bike every other year due to repair and replacement. There are more American parts on the Wing than on the Harleys built since '95. Their built in Ohio too. My first tuneup is due at 100,000 miles."
What do bikes have to do with with this thread, guys???
Ok, let's give back the thread its initial status.
As far as Russian superstitions....
If you accidentally spill salt, you are in for some bad luck. To stop it, pick up some salt, throw it over your left shoulder, spit three times in the same direction and say, "Tfu-tfu-tfu tri raza - ne moya zaraza." This action, held to chase away the devil that sits on a person's left shoulder looking for ways to spoil the future, is a close approximation of the Western idea of knocking on wood.
Many many superstitions are connected with wedding process...when I was a witness at one of the weddings, the mother of the bride was trying to make me to gather my hair, as it was a bad sign, unfortunately I wasn't able to do that as my hair is rather long and thick, and the mother of the bride was very very angry, luckily the bride was a modern girl who didn't believe in all those superstitions and she helped me to stop her mother:)
By the way, Russians like to resort to oxymorons when describing something very emotionally, e.g.
"She is horribly beautiful.."
"He is just alive corpse..."
"It's terribly tasty..."
But I doubt they all understand the comic effect this device implies :o)
Marinka- I understand the oxymorons you gave as examples but I wouldn't use the term horribly beautiful for a woman that was gorgeous. I think the sight of my tongue hanging out would be sufficient. :o)
"I think the sight of my tongue hanging out would be sufficient. :o)" the sight of the tongue hanging out...is considered to be not a very polite gesture, or it's an insulting one, or when 2 people know each other for some time it may be considered to be a sign of a flirt...
there is an anecdote that when a man shows his tongue, he is teasing the woman, and when a woman shows her tongue she displays her potential:)
Dale's tongue rolls out three meters out of his mouth and his eyeballs jump out of their sockets every time he sees a beautiful FSU woman, lol...:))
He keeps watching the movie Mark with Jim Carey, that's why
And maybe that cartoon "Red Hat"...I'm not sure how to name it in English, and there is such a funny wolf in it:)) I guess in the film "Mask" they took the idea from that cartoon:))